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Our Spring 2011 Issue is a special tribute to Agha Shahid Ali. Here is an excerpt from the forward for this issue written by Shahid’s sister, Hena Ahmad:

“Agha Shahid Ali was a poet, an Indian – American, a Kashmiri – American, an “all – American Shiite” (as he sometimes said), and above all, a true global citizen.  He died on December 8, 2001 at the age of 52 just before reaching the pinnacle of his career as a poet, a career cut cruelly short by brain cancer.  Critically acclaimed by the world of poetry both in America and internationally, author Amitav Ghosh said of Shahid: “He was perhaps the greatest South Asian poet ever to write in English.”

“Shahid once said: “My poetry has all along revealed a triple heritage . . . Hindu, Muslim, and Western.”  Nevertheless, the cultural pluralism that encompasses his artistic oeuvre clearly derives not only from an upbringing with visibly imbricated Hindu, Muslim, and Western influences, but from a plurality constitutive of, among a myriad of others, secularism, Christianity, Bollywood, Hollywood, Stravinsky, Begum Akhtar, and Billie Holliday — in short, the music of the spheres. ”

The issue also features poetry by Victoria Zak, Douglas “Woody” Woodsum, Jon Wilkins, Andrea L. Watson, Eric Torgersen, Peggy O’Brien, Susie Meserve, Christopher Merrill, D.K. McCutchen, Peter Marcus, Dean Kostos, Zilka Joseph, Tony Hoagland, Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller, Forrest Gander, Martín Espada, Michelle Demers, Jim Davis, Hugh Coyle, Stacey Chase, Lorri Centineo, Agha Shahid Ali, Hena Ahmad and Caroline Adams with artwork by Izhar Patkin and reviews by Mark Rice and Michael Macklin.

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