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Nazifa Islam

Nazifa Islam is the author of the poetry collections Searching for a Pulse (Whitepoint Press, 2013) and Forlorn Light: Virginia Woolf Found Poems (Shearsman Books, 2021). Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Smartish Pace, and Beloit Poetry Journal among other publications. She earned her MFA at Oregon State University.

Work Published in Sacramento Literary Review

Gestures Toward Life

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a found poem: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath To write is a kind of madness when God is without meaningthe mind slack with solitudeand...

We Didn’t Pick This Love

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a found poem: The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery Our crisp sere old lovewas no glorious glad homeof scarlet and gold virtue. It was a nondescriptblue sky with...