Poets & Writers

Fatimah Asghar

One World

…my people my people
the long years we’ve survived the long
years yet to come…
—from “If They Come for Us”

HOW IT BEGAN: I was writing a lot of poems that were about my childhood, and my friend Kevin Coval pulled me aside one day and said,

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