Tag: Adrienne Rich

• The Graph of a Cry

  

  My dissertation is available as a book for academics, libraries, and those who are interested to read more about the phenomenal journey of the American ghazal. This dissertation analyzes the journey of the ancient Arabic poetic form of the ghazal to America to provide insights into transnational poetry and cultural mobility. While the movement of…

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  13 Aug 2022

  Academic, Art, Awareness, Books, dissertation, diversity, Education, Gender, Personal is Political, phd, Poetry, Read, research, Story, Travel

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• Building Inclusive Safe Spaces: my brown dream

  

  Two institutions have come under the radar recently for allowing their platform to spout bigotry; both apologized, and in their inner circles professed that the core consensus was to give everyone a forum to vent out their inner feelings. However offensive they might have been they had the “right” to express. Here is my (to…

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  23 Jan 2019

  Awareness, conference, diversity, Education, Gender, Read, Story, Travel

  Adrienne Rich, behavior, bullies, gender, harm, harsh, leaders, leadership, learning, longreads, manners, mean, minority, represent, representation, safe, safety, silence, silent, what did you do

• Thinking About the Floating Dead

  

  The painting above is a depiction of Shakespeare’s Ophelia from Hamlet. The haunting scene describes how Ophelia, driven out of her mind when her father is murdered by her lover Hamlet, falls into a stream and drowns: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy…

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  16 Jan 2019

  Art, Film, Gender, Read, Story

  Adrienne Rich, art, baptism, blooms, bodies, corporeal, drown, drowning, faith, floating, floral, flowers, foetal, Ghazal, hamlet, image, john everett millais, kumbh mela, letting go, longreads, membrane, mermaid like, metaphor, millais, mindscape, mrs dalloway, ophelia, painting, shakespeare, symbol, tate, the american ghazal, the body, the body remembers, thoughts, virginia woolf, visceral

• Liars, Cadavers and Vultures

  

  “The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.” (Rich, Adrienne. Arts Of The Possible: Essays and Conversations. 32) Cadavers are Useful Things Vultures in wake Shoulders tense Crouching Hovering Pecking Gawk, squawk Peck, peck, peck Delicious diseased flesh Old World or New World? Filled with acid Leak, leak, leak Urine…

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  4 Sep 2015

  Poem A Day, Poetry, Story

  Adrienne Rich, cadavers, change, discover, liars, meander, Poem, sounds, vultures

• Paris in the rain

  

  Saturday, January 10, 2015, I was to be in Paris for the day to meet poet and translator Marilyn Hacker. I had many questions about her experience with the ghazal and ghazal poets; she was generous enough to offer her day to me. On Monday 5th I booked my tickets to travel by the Thalys…

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  11 Jan 2015

  Academic, Apoorva, Awareness, Books, Gender, Parenting, Photography, Poetry, Story

  Abida Parveen, academia, Adrienne Rich, Agha Shahid Ali, amsterdam, Apoorva, art, bambi, Blood, Book, borders, charlie, children, Darwish, freedom, frontpage, gare du nord, Ghalib, Ghazal, hafez, hanif kureishi, honey hunter, karthika nair, life, locks, Marilyn Hacker, names, nation states, not here, not now, notre dame, Paris, Poetry, rafiq kathwari, rain, roger sedarat, Rumi, seine, train

• The walls of the room I am building

  

  The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies had their research day conference on 26th May 2014 in Amsterdam. The day was titled – Doing Gender in the Netherlands: Feminism in Transition (Activism, Institutions and Canons). I was there to present a paper: Tumbling Wall: Adrienne Rich Dismantles a Male Form. My paper spoke about the…

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  1 Jun 2014

  Academic, Awareness, Books, Poetry, Story, Travel

  Adrienne Rich, amsterdam, awareness, canons, doing gender, feminism, gender studies, Ghazal, graduate school, Mirza Ghalib, NOG, phd, poems, research, structure, study, the netherlands, transition

• “Dedications”

  

  “I know you are reading this poem late, before leaving your office of the one intense yellow lamp-spot and the darkening window in the lassitude of a building faded to quiet long after rush-hour. I know you are reading this poem standing up in a bookstore far from the ocean on a grey day of…

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  1 Mar 2014

  Books, Poetry

  Adrienne Rich, An Atlas of the Difficult World, Book, Dedications, Poem, Poetry, Read

• The dots I can’t connect

  

  In my deep moments of losing and finding myself in a ghazal (right now I am reading: “Red Ghazal”) I find my mind turning to songs I’ve heard. Sometimes I can find a direct connect between the two e.g. reading Adrienne Rich and listening to Abida Parveen sing Mirza Ghalib‘s ghazals, Rich often refers to…

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  3 Jun 2013

  Music, Poetry

  Abida Parveen, Adrienne Rich, Ghalib, Ghazal, Mirza Ghalib, Poetry