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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Kandala Singh's poems appear/are forthcoming from Ploughshares, Rattle, Frontier Poetry, Muzzle Magazine, The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2026 Gerard Rochford Poetry Prize. Her work has been nominated for Best New Poets, and has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Hudson Valley Writers Center and VONA, among others. She lives in New Delhi, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Pittsburgh, where she was a Dietrich fellow.
Palestine in the News
Pittsburgh, Oct 2023
Say another bomb drops,
& your world doesn’t end.
You barbeque meat for dinner, inhale
the scent of flesh.
Step outside to streets lined with reddening
leaves & splattered guts of pumpkin.
Think of the little red
bundle of girl mined from the rubble by men.
Say you spend hours scrolling dating apps. Fuck
the white man down the road, who has fallen
for your caramel skin.
Your body becomes a map, divided
between human & animal, East & West.
You sleep longer hours. You dream: Hansel & Gretel follow the bread
crumbs home. Red
Riding Hood emerges from the belly of the earth.
Smiles & bobs her tiny head.
When you wake up,
all the children are dead.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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