# Kazim Ali
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kazim ali (born 1971) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and professor. His most recent books are Inquisition (Wesleyan University Press, 2018) and
All One's Blue (Harper Collins India, 2016). His honors include an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council.
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley – June 24, 2015
Jack’s guest is American-born Israeli poet Rachel Tzvia Back. Born in Buffalo, New York, she was raised in the US and Israel. The seventh generation of her family in Israel, she returned there to live permanently in 1980. She currently resides in the Galilee, in the north of the country. Back studi…
91. Kazim Ali, "Indian Winter"
Scandal at the Hugo Awards; Do straight guys hate novels?; writer Kazim Ali is our guest to talk about his novel, Indian Winter, Coach House Books' submission for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada.
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Our shared needs connect us: Writers respond to the science of animal conservation.
Humans are one species on a planet of millions of species. The literary collection Creature Needs is a project that grew out of a need to do something with grievous, anxious energy—an attempt to nourish the soul in a meaningful way, and an attempt to start somewhere specific in the face of big, ear…
Episode 38: The Paria Diving Incident
Trinidad and Tobago are two islands located in the Caribbean. These islands draw in hundreds of thousands of tourists each season for the stunning beaches, the rainforests, the music, the food and the culture. While the rest of the world sees these islands as a beautiful place for rest and relaxati…
National Poetry Month: April 11, 2025
Content warning: the poem “Animals” (third in the episode) contains graphic depictions of violence towards animals.
Today being the last Friday in Lent before Holy Week (the actual last Friday in Lent is “Good Friday,” an even more somber observation of the Lenten spirit, categorically different t…
Queering Reality with Kazim Ali
I had the joy of sitting down with an old friend, the poet and thinker Kazim Ali. Our conversation drifted the way real friendship does — through feminism and literature, into questions of consciousness and creativity, and then deeper still, into the realms of mothers and mortality, what it means t…
Episode 41 with writer Adnan Shaikh
I had interviewed Adnan Shaikh in October 2025 to discuss their approaches to storytelling and representation. Adnan's writing has appeared on many platforms, including Kazim Ali's edited anthology, On the Brink of Belief. In this podcast episode, they discuss the importance of writing from specifi…
Kazim Ali: “Sandwich”
Recorded by Kazim Ali for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 25, 2026. www.poets.org
The Lyric You: Soham Patel
Soham Patel shares poems that each speak to “you,” finding in the second-person pronoun a way to explore difficult subjects. She introduces Mark Strand asking questions of his deceased father (“Elegy for My Father”), Kazim Ali addressing a past self in a time of transformation (“Gallery”), and Yany…
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