Kazim Ali’s most recent book of poetry is Sky Ward (Wesleyan, 2013). His other recent books include a book of essays, Resident Alien (Michigan, 2015) and a collection of short fiction, Uncle Sharif’s Life in Music (Sibling Rivalry, 2016). He is an associate professor of creative writing and comparative literature at Oberlin College.
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2018
What New Name
What new name will you bear in a world governed by code and calculation What program will reveal the ratio between communal identities and the loss of the body You […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2017
Checkpoint
“I do not know” is stamped indelibly on my passport so I ammarked always for further interrogation. Adam, named for the first man, asks me again and again, “What are […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2015
How to Spend All One’s Blue
In the empty rooms of sky I lingered For a year and a day only now Do I wonder in which blue vestment Dawn will I don in thunder raiment […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2015
Son of History
I ruin my work with love or oil but unsoiled I return to the toil of stars Stained by their light traveling from the galaxy’s edge, I know […]
Poetry
Fall 2011
Monochromatic: Three-act Tragedy
sheets of ice on the river a soft landscape fully white remembering when monochromatic I left him taking the train north from winter to winter the conductor called out each […]
Book Reviews
Spring 2009
In the Hurricane’s Eye: On “The Butterfly’s Burden”
The Butterfly’s Burden by Mahmoud Darwish. Translated by Fady Joudah. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2006. 327 pages. $20.00 Contemporary poets in the United States seem to find […]
Poetry
Winter 2009
Blue My Promise a Swan
to alice coltrane distress or sudden belief when I heard in your sound my own nameor was it my actual body you started plucking then from etherit is immense that I believe […]
Spring 2010
Little Maps: A Valentine
Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali’s most recent book of poetry is Sky Ward (Wesleyan, 2013). His other recent books include a book of essays, Resident Alien (Michigan, 2015) and a collection of short […]