select works from summonings

GARBA, OR WOMB + LAMP, OR AS IN EVERY TRADITION THERE IS A WOMAN & HER BODY & BOTH ARE VESSELS,” “the universe will end & kali will still be here,” “the village men find some [fellowship], [hunt],” “summoning with chai & failure,” & “summoning : ash in my palms, ash on the streets” at Virginia Quarterly Review

daayan looks to the earth,” “on projection,” & “the mountains recall the myth” at Tupelo Quarterly

“At Home, In the Empire” at Tinderbox

“ojha : rituals” at Academy of American Poets

“COLDPLAY GOES TO INDIA TO SHOOT DURING HOLI & I JUST HAVE TO KEEP LIVING MY LIFE,” at Asian American Writers’ Workshop

“At Their Weddings. Their Weddings. Their Weddings. Their Weddings.” at bedfellows magazine

"daayan, feet facing forward" at Blackbird

"daayan summons the village 'goddess'" at BOAAT

"on persona" at Diode

“I MAKE A TOOTHPICK DIADEM & CROWN MYSELF TOKEN” at The Nation

"daayan at gold streak river" at Poetry Daily

“Jodhpur, Jharkhand, Philadelphia” & “GOD OF NEW BEGINNINGS, I CELEBRATE YOU POORLY” at The Rumpus

select works from GILT

"monsoon season, one" at The Adroit Journal

"to miss america" & "Stasis" at Banango St.

"say i am a series of creeks" at Better Mag

"the procession" at Blackbird

"The State Para-Military Force Speaks" at Boston Review & Verse Daily

"dayaan summoning magic" at Cosmonauts Avenue

"looking through a telescope at the moon on the day neil armstrong died" at Four Way Review

"Engagement Party, Georgia" at Gulf Coast

"black magic" at Ninth Letter

"New Year as an Extremophile" and "Holi: Equinox Approaches" at Quarterly West

"Diwali: New Moon" at Tupelo Quarterly

“if i wrap myself in gold" at Winter Tangerine

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