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Jasmine Khaliq
Poet, Editor
Jasmine Khaliq is a Pakistani Mexican poet born and raised in Northern California. Her work is found or forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Black Warrior Review, The Pinch, Poet Lore, The Rumpus, Bennington Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from San Francisco State University and an MFA from University of Washington, Seattle. Her manuscript, Somewhere Horses, was a finalist for the 2022 University of Akron Poetry Prize, and a semi-finalist for Tupelo Press’ 2021 Berkshire Prize. Currently, Jasmine is a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where she teaches and serves as Managing Editor of Quarterly West.
About Their Work:
"A quick take on Jasmine Khaliq’s poetry: offhandedly harrowing excellence. These are poems in which pieces of mind and body flicker, shred, and glow again, in which beauty and injury are proximate and pungent, in which we are never sure if what comes next is confession, accusation, elegy or apotheosis. And all of these come to us in sharp, blunt words and swift, razor blade lines. The poems resonate and shiver, and when they are too soon done, they echo with consequence."
– Dave Karp
Follow On:
IG: @jasminekhaliq
Twitter: @jasminekhaliq_
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Books (for purchase):
Online Work:
“American Sonnet with a Line by Van Gogh,” Sundog Lit, March 2022
“Invierno II” and “Invierno III,” The Rumpus, February 2022
“QFC in January,” phoebe, Spring 2021
“Dream of the Third Body,” Poet Lore, Summer/Fall 2021
“Postcard Before I Forgive You,” “Otchayanie,” and “sunrise through mount vernon, wa.” GASHER, Fall 2020
Listen to “sunrise through mount vernon, wa.” featured on The Slowdown, Apr. 8th 2022 & Dec. 8th 2022
“imaginary homeland,” “Last August,” (reprints) and “Leaving Seattle, Late June,” Double Yolk Issue 1, 2022
“aj again,” Passengers Journal, January 2021
“Last Morning,” Sixth Finch, Winter 2022
“Consuelo Gallo Avila” and “Halal (Permissible),” The Boiler, September 2021
“the magpie poem,” Honorable Mention for the 2020 Mirabai Prize for Poetry, Raw Art Review, Summer 2020 (reprint)
“Autovivisection,” So to Speak, Summer 2021
Read for Margin Shift:
March 11, 2023