Dilruba Ahmed’s debut book, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf Press, 2011), won the Bakeless Prize awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her poems have appeared (or will soon appear) in Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, New England Review, and Poetry. Her work has also been anthologized in Literature: The Human Experience (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2016), Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas, 2010), and elsewhere.
Nature's (Human) Nature
May/June 2018
In Everything a Little Remains
after Carlos Drummond de Andrade In everything a little remains. In our factory-farmed eggs, a little pasture remains, one wide enough to cool the pain of the fire-hot […]
Winter 2013
To Open Up Another Person’s Body: C. Dale Young’s Torn
C. Dale Young’s latest book of poems, Torn, strikes me as haunted: the speakers are preoccupied with human frailty, strength, and lust; with a complex and contradictory relationship with God; and with violence in forms small and large.
Dilruba Ahmed
Dilruba Ahmed’s debut book, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf Press, 2011), won the Bakeless Prize awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her poems have appeared (or will soon appear) in Alaska […]