Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
Waqas Khwaja is the Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor of English at Agnes Scott College, where he teaches courses in Postcolonial literature, British Romanticism, Narratives of Empire, Gothic literature, Victorian poetry and fiction, Literature and Leadership, and Creative Writing. His publications include four collections of poetry (Six Geese from a Tomb at Medum, Mariam’s Lament, No One Waits for the Train, and Hold Your Breath), a literary travelogue (Writers and Landscapes) about his experiences as a fellow of the University of Iowa’s International Writers’ Program, and three edited anthologies of Pakistani literature (Cactus, Mornings in the Wilderness, and Short Stories from Pakistan) comprising work by Pakistani Anglophone writers as well as translations of fiction and poetry from Urdu and Punjabi. He was translation editor and contributor for Modern Poetry of Pakistan, an NEA project showcasing the work of Pakistan’s major poets from its seven prominent language traditions and has guest edited a special issue on Pakistani literature for the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature, and another, on Pakistani poetry, for Atlanta Review.
I HOLD A PRAYER OF THORNS IN MY PALMS
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