Sanam Sheriff صنم

I have two new poems in Virginia Quarterly Review’s Winter issue. Wagging my tail. These poems have meant a lot to me across the distances I carry and the loss they demand. Gratitude to the editors, and to you if you pause to read, share, feel.

Ok but why was I yesterday years old when I found out that Etel Adnan wrote her own Letter to a Young Poet?? Read this last night & ngl kinda life changing??

@kemiaalabi @ApogeeJournal I’ll stay for your music any day

We're featuring @AfroJediii and @sunummm at The Late(ish) Poetry Show on November 4th! Get your tickets today. thephillypigeon.org

On Wednesday I have the pleasure of moderating a reading and conversation with @novelniche & @MyNrhindi for @MAPBangalore. 9 AM EST, 6:30 PM IST. More info through the link below 🌹 map-india.org/map-events/lin…

Sunday. “and desire is still / all I crave.”

@joshuaburton23 thank you for reading, for sharing 🌹

@lutherxhughes Mubarak 🌹 looking forward to reveling

OMG!!!!!! Don’t ask me how I feel bc I’m not sure yet but OMG!!!

Humbled to share a new poem published in the summer issue of @IndianaReview . Beaming this one out to all my genderful kin, our endless fields. Gratitude to the editors, and to @djrealboy_ for seeing and choosing this poem. Gratitude to you if you stop to read, share, feel.

Another absolute favorite by @adalimon:

@Dalai_Mama_ I blush.

@sunummm Listen your poem is immaculate

“We came into this world / but were not of it: — of the refuse / but not the refined, the ritual of wormwood / but not waste. Here’s to the rot / in us, which would otherwise be abundance, / if we could be otherwise, / which would otherwise be alive if we could / otherwise be.”

@Dalai_Mama_ @IndianaReview Oof. Love love love this.

New poem, who dis? 📞 This poem was originally commissioned by LACMA for Kehinde Wiley’s Obama portrait and I’m happy it has found its home in the @IndianaReview #TheBlackOutside

THE POETS ARE FINALLY THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT US TRUST ME BRO SOLDIERS DON'T STATESMEN DON'T PRIESTS DON'T UNION LEADERS DON'T ONLY THE POETS SOMETHING AWFUL IS HAPPENING TO A CIVILIZATION WHEN IT CEASES TO BELIEVE IN THE REPORT THAT ONLY POETS CAN MAKE YOU KNOW

This issue of @IndianaReview is LIVE yo everyone is in here: @francinejharris @literari_ana @jasonbcrawford @blckrdaberry @DashaunDub @sunummm @joshuaburton23 @itsKayPrice @brownroundboi @ruthellenkocher Geeeeeeez 🔥❤️‍🔥🔥

@Dalai_Mama_ @IndianaReview @francinejharris @literari_ana @jasonbcrawford @blckrdaberry @DashaunDub @joshuaburton23 @itsKayPrice @brownroundboi @ruthellenkocher Also patiently waiting for my copy, but so humbled to be in this company 🌹

“Skin had hope, that's what skin does. / Heals over the scarred place, makes a road. / Love means you breathe in two countries.” —Naomi Shihab Nye poets.org/poem/two-count…

@rajivmohabir Lucky us

I think I've written enough poems in Hindi for a book? I am going to translate it myself...I'm feeling giddy!