Shadab Zeest Hashmi
Shadab Zeest Hashmi (born August 16, 1972) is an American poet of Pakistani origins. Her poetry, written in English, has been translated into Spanish and Urdu.[1] She has been the editor of the Magee Park Poets Anthology and MahMag and is a columnist for 3 Quarks Daily.[2] Many of Hashmi's poems explore feminism, history and perspectives on Islam.[citation needed]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Shadab Zeest Hashmi grew up in Peshawar, Pakistan.[3] She graduated from Reed College in 1995[3] and received her MFA from Warren Wilson College.[4] Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner,[5] Poetry International, Vallum, Atlanta Review,[6] Nimrod, The Bitter Oleander,[2] Journal of Postcolonial Writings,[7] The Cortland Review, The Adirondack Review, New Millennium Writings, Universe: A United Nations of Poets, Drunken Boat, Split this Rock,[8] Hubbub,[2] Pakistani Literature Women Writings[9] and others.[10]
Shadab Zeest Hashmi's essays on eastern poetic forms such as the ghazal and qasida have been published in the Journal of Contemporary World Literature,[11] and her essays have appeared in the Washington Post, Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, Knot magazine,[12] and "3 Quarks Daily"[13] In 2010, Poetic Matrix Press published Shadab Zeest Hashmi's book Baker of Tarifa, which won the 2011 San Diego Book Award for poetry.[14]
Baker of Tarifa is a book of poems based on the history of Muslim Spain; it attempts to recreate a near millennium of Andalusi culture which transformed Western thought, values, art science and technology, building a legend of peaceful co-existence known as "la convivencia". The work looks at Muslim Civilization as a bridge between antiquity and modernity, East and West, between three continents (Africa, Asia, and Europe) and three religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam); a golden chapter not only in Muslim and European history, but human history.[15] Shadab Zeest Hashmi has been inspired by the music of the Al-Andalus Ensemble.
Eleanor Wilner called Hashmi's poems "luminous."[16] Shadab's latest book is Kohl & Chalk, which uses themes from her own life as a naturalized American citizen, while also remembering her home in Pakistan.[3]
Works
[edit | edit source]Published Essays:
- Qasida
- Ghazal
- Memoir Essay
- Essay
- Review
- Ghazal, Sufism and the Birth of a Language
- "Saying" the Ghazal: Duende and Performing the Courtly Art of the Ghazal
Poems:
- "Sultana Morayma: the Last Queen of al-Andalus", Mizna, Summer '16 Issue, Volume 17.1 p. 57 ISSN 1535-2331
- "Across the Windowsill", San Diego Museum of Art
- "Iman", San Diego Reader [17]
- "Passing through Peshawar"
- "It’s Your Marmalade House"
- "Guantanamo"
Books:
- Kohl & Chalk (Poetic Matrix Press: January 25, 2013). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Baker of Tarifa (Poetic Matrix Press: September 1, 2010). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Awards
[edit | edit source]- 1991 — SAARC medal for literature,[2]
- 2004 — Stout Award,[2]
- 2007 — Andalusia Prize for Literature,[2]
- 2011 — San Diego Book Award,[14]
- 2014 — Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize,[1]
- 2014 — San Diego Book Award
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Interview
- Sorrows of Moraima (text and audio)
- Small Press Distribution listing
- An Interview with Shadab Zeest Hashmi and Alicia Jo Rabins with Gray Thoron (transcript)