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Poems that witness, accuse, mourn, and resist. Work rooted in body autonomy, ecofeminism, desire, grief, exile, and decolonial reclamation - from Adivasi verse to Urdu ghazal to prison writing.
Poems that witness, accuse, mourn, and resist. Work rooted in body autonomy, ecofeminism, desire, grief, exile, and decolonial reclamation - from Adivasi verse to Urdu ghazal to prison writing.
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All is One Here and 2 other poems
Birth of Isa and 5 other poems
I Refused To Die and 2 other poems
Memory & Time
A curated collection
All is One Here and 2 other poems
Where being pours into another, patriarchy and contested borders divide unyielding hunger and grief: the nations cold heart beats near...
I Refused To Die and 2 other poems
A defiant spirit kindles resilience, challenging dogmas chains from the margins, lifting loves torch toward a bright, bewildering dawn.
Coercion
This poem starkly portrays coercion's bitter grip, devouring girls' dreams, a vast, unacknowledged, relentless nightmare
With Many Hopes and 6 other poems
From ravaged soil, a fierce promise to resurrect the homelands dreams, challenging brutal patriarchal structures, navigating profound grief and defiant,...
Sophocles and My Dadu and 2 other poems
Fierce Agency blossoms, reclaiming silenced memory and profound grief from systemic erasure, cradled within Homes tender heart.
The Story in My Palms
These delicate hands mirror a woman's inner journey, revealing a path of self-discovery and care
I Sleep with Silence
From chained dreams, a daughters silent scream asserts fierce agency, navigating profound grief to breathe resilience into a wounded lands...
Invincible
An Afghan woman's invincible spirit bravely bears war's scars and history's pain, still dreams freedom
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YOU, CONQUEROR
The body, flayed and profoundly unmade, re-stitched with pervasive fear, confronts the cruel politics of control, becoming a subservient, obedient...
Old Dreams of Kolkata and Sum of Parts
Whispers of deeply forgotten histories echo, reclaiming narrative power from silenced spaces, navigating deep loss and resilience within the heart's...
i open the window
Effigy – A Coupling and mouth
The human spirit, a vibrant landscape of resilience, battles brutal systemic erasure, finding its authentic voice and asserting enduring hope...
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YOU, CONQUEROR
The body, flayed and profoundly unmade, re-stitched with pervasive fear, confronts the cruel politics of control, becoming a subservient, obedient...
i open the window
Orchestra Immigrant and Saltbodies
A visceral lament: Mother holds boat-wrecked child. Diaspora's ache and fractured land deny belonging, while memory slowly kills, birthing a...
Old Dreams of Kolkata and Sum of Parts
Whispers of deeply forgotten histories echo, reclaiming narrative power from silenced spaces, navigating deep loss and resilience within the heart's...
