Part of The Poetry Society of New York's Weekly Virtual Workshop Series.

With poet Malvika Jolly!

Together, we will explore the poetic form of the "Ghazal" and its imaginative lexicon—traversing Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and contemporary English literary examples—looking at examples from Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Rajiv Mohabir, Jan-Henry Gray, and potentially others. We will leave the workshop with the beginnings of our own ghazals.

About the Instructor: Malvika Jolly is a poet, translator, and educator based in New York City. Her writing explores postcolonial legacy, hybridity, magical realism, counter-imperialisms, transnational solidarity movements, folklore, mythology, and dreams. She has been featured in Four Way Review, MIZNA, The Rumpus, Salt Hill Journal, The Best Small Fictions Anthology 2023, among others, and in programs for the Brooklyn Rail, Method Bandra, and The New York Foundation for the Arts. She is the recipient of support from Brooklyn Poets, City Lore, Dara Shikoh Literary Festival, Davis Projects for Peace, Threewalls, Poetry Foundation, Radius of Arab American Writers, Under the Volcano, and The Watering Hole. She was a finalist for the 2023 Margins Fellowship, the 2022–23 Emerge–Surface–Be Fellowship, and BOMB magazine’s 2022 Poetry Contest, judged by Solmaz Sharif. She serves as the programs coordinator for arts organization Tamaas | تماس, and as a senior editor for Poetry Northwest. She curates The New Third World, a traveling poetry reading series inspired by the Non-Aligned Movement.

* *This workshop will take place on Zoom.**