Petition
Dilruba Ahmed, “Petition” from Dhaka Dust. Copyright © 2011 by Dilruba Ahmed. Reprinted by permission of Graywolf Press, www.graywolfpress.org.
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Poet Dilruba Ahmed
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Subjects Activities, Eating & Drinking, Nature, Spring, Religion, The Spiritual
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Dhaka Dust (Graywolf, 2011), winner of the Bakeless Literary Prize for poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her poetry has appeared in Blackbird, Cream City Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, and Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry.
Of her first book, a Hyphen Magazine reviewer observed, “What’s so promising about Dhaka Dust is precisely that Ahmed . . .
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SUBJECT Activities, Eating & Drinking, Nature, Spring, Religion, The Spiritual
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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