Author: Dilruba Ahmed
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BRING NOW THE ANGELS by Dilruba Ahmed
To test your pulse as you sleep. Bring the healer the howler the listening ear— Bring an apothecary to mix the tincture— …
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INTERVIEW WITH Dilruba Ahmed
Dilruba Ahmed is the writer of Bring Now the Angels (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) and Dhaka Dust (Graywolf 2011), which won the Bakeless Prize. Ahmed is the recipient of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize, and she holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. FWR: In an…
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THREE POEMS by Dilruba Ahmed
THE CHILDREN How each one is taken with care from car to school doorstep, each one hand-in-hand with an adult. How the mothers and fathers kiss their foreheads, first pushing aside their bangs or smoothing a stray wisp. One parent straightens her daughter’s velvet headband; another wipes dried oatmeal from his son’s pink lips. …