Kazim Ali

{{Short description|American poet, novelist, essayist, and professor (born 1971)}}

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Kazim Ali (born April 5, 1971){{Cite web |last=Congress |first=The Library of |title=Ali, Kazim, 1971- - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies {{!}} Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress) |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005025597.html |access-date=January 19, 2024 |website=id.loc.gov}} 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. His poetry and essays have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The American Poetry Review,[http://www.aprweb.org/issues/nov06/ali.html The American Poetry Review > Nov/Dec 2006, Vol. 35/No. 6 > Kazim Ali] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219062806/http://www.aprweb.org/issues/nov06/ali.html |date=December 19, 2008 }} Boston Review, Barrow Street, Jubilat, The Iowa Review, West Branch and Massachusetts Review, and in The Best American Poetry 2007.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

Life

Kazim Ali was born in the UK to parents of Indian descent, and raised in Canada and the United States. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees in English Literature from the University at Albany, and an MFA in creative writing from New York University.[http://boaeditions.org/authors/ali.html BOA Editions > Author Page > Kazim Ali] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121103937/http://www.boaeditions.org./authors/ali.html |date=November 21, 2008 }}

In 2003, he co-founded the independent press Nightboat Books, served as its publisher from 2004 to 2007, and currently serves as a founding editor.[http://www.nightboat.org/Editor_Biographies.htm Nightboat Books > About Us: Editor Biographies] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430154203/http://www.nightboat.org/Editor_Biographies.htm |date=April 30, 2009 }}

Ali is professor of literature and creative Writing at University of California, San Diego,{{cite web |title=Kazim Ali |url=http://literature.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/kali.html |accessdate=March 2, 2019 |website=UC San Diego}} and has taught in the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kazim-ali|title=Kazim Ali|date=August 3, 2019|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en|access-date=August 4, 2019}} Previously, he taught in the Liberal Arts Department of The Culinary Institute of America, at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, at Monroe College, and at Oberlin College.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

Awards and honors

2009: Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}
2014: Best Translated Book Award, poetry, one of two runners-up for The Oasis of Now by Sohrab Sepehri, translated from the Persian by Kazim Ali and Mohammad Jafar Mahallati{{cite web |author=Chad W. Post |date=April 28, 2014 |title=BTBA 2014: Poetry and Fiction Winners |url=http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?id=10932 |url-status=dead |accessdate=April 28, 2014 |publisher=Three Percent |archive-date=June 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610193428/http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?id=10932 }}
2014: Ohioana Book Award in poetry for Sky Ward{{cite news |url=http://www.ohioana.org/programs/ohioana-book-awards/past-award-winners/ |title=Past Award Winners - Ohioana Library |newspaper=Ohioana Library - Connecting Readers and Ohio Writers |date=May 30, 2014 |archive-date=February 12, 2019 |access-date=December 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212123101/http://www.ohioana.org/programs/ohioana-book-awards/past-award-winners/ |url-status=dead }}

Published works

Poetry

The Far Mosque (Alice James Books, 2005)
The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2008)
Bright Felon (Wesleyan University Press, 2009)
Sky Ward (Wesleyan, 2013)
All One's Blue (Harper Collins India, 2016)
Inquisition (Wesleyan University Press, 2018)

Fiction

Quinn's Passage (BlazeVOX Books, 2004)
The Disappearance of Seth (Etruscan Press, 2009)
Wind Instrument (Spork Press, 2014)
Uncle Sharif's Life in Music (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016)
The Secret Room (Kaya Press, 2017)

Nonfiction

Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence (University of Michigan Press, 2010)
Fasting for Ramadan: Notes on a Spiritual Practice (Tupelo Press, 2011)
Resident Alien: On Border-Crossing and the Undocumented Divine (University of Michigan Press, 2015)
Anaïs Nin: An Unprofessional Study (Agape Editions, 2017)
Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies (Tupelo Press, 2018)
Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water (Goose Lane Editions / Milkweed Editions, 2021)

Translations

Water's Footfall, Poems of Sohrab Sepehri, translated by Kazim Ali and Mohammad Jafar Mahallati (Omnidawn Press, 2011). {{ISBN|978-1-890650-55-1}}.
The Oasis of Now, Poems of Sohrab Sepehri, translated from the Persian by Kazim Ali and Mohammad Jafar Mahallati (BOA, 2013). {{ISBN|9781938160226}}.
L'Amour by Marguerite Duras (Open Letter Books, 2013)
Abahn Sabana David by Marguerite Duras (Open Letter Books, 2016)

Anthologies

Mad Heart Be Brave: Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali (University of Michigan Press, 2017){{Cite book|title=Mad heart be brave : essays on the poetry of Agha Shahid Ali|others=Ali, Kazim, 1971-|date=April 17, 2017 |isbn=9780472122820|location=Ann Arbor|oclc=984992139}}

References

External links

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbYqiz8GTiE Video: Poetry Reading by Kazim Ali/Two short poems]
[http://www.kickingwind.com/101506.html Interview: KickingWind.com > October 15, 2006 > Every Other Day Interview with Kazim Ali]
Under A Warm Green Linden: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110708054833/http://nelsonpoetry.blogspot.com/2011/06/interview-with-kazim-ali-on-far-mosque.html "Interview with Kazim Ali on The Far Mosque], June 22, 2011.

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