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Ashley Somwaru

Ashley Somwaru is an Indo-Caribbean woman who was born and raised in Queens, New York. She received an MFA in poetry from Queens College, CUNY. Somwaru has recently published a chapbook in 2021 titled, "Urgent \\ Where The Mind Goes \\ Scattered." Previous work has been published in Angime, A Gathering Together, Newtown Literary, Solstice Magazine, VIDA Review, and elsewhere.

I Have to Explain This Because I Hate the Word “bastardization” and I’m Tired of People Equating Me to Things I Am Not

Kumkum. Ashok tree. Cinders floating in Varanasi’s river. Chaat masala. Khatak. A tongue bitten. Brown tints of my mother and father’s mother and father’s mother and father. [          ] waiting around peepal trees to steal [          ]. Curry leaves. Mangal sutra. The …

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