April 5, 2026

Kazim Ali

Kazim Ali

Kazim Ali coined the term "genre-queer" to refer to literature that blurs the line between poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He wrote a master's thesis on Euripides in translation. He once danced on stage with Yoko Ono. His forthcoming book of poetry is The Man in 119.

I silver-streaked fled through rivered cant

What I left behind I cannot thank yet

Far from home one does soon learn

How to sea

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But couldn’t poetry be a better action in that moment: rather than recite what was given for other peoples in other generations and geographies and worldly circumstances, the forms and lines and rhythms of our own lives—the poetry of the moment can respond.

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