Contributor

Adeeba Shahid Talukder

Contributor

Adeeba Shahid Talukder

Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet, singer, and translator of Urdu and Persian poetry. She is the author of What Is Not Beautiful (Glass Poetry Press, 2018), and her book Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved (Tupelo Press, 2020) was awarded the Kundiman Poetry Prize....

Her work has appeared in Poem-A-Day, Gulf Coast, The Margins, Best American Poetry, PBS Frontline, and elsewhere. A Best of the Net finalist and Pushcart nominee, she holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and an Emerging Poets Fellowship from Poets House.

No, My Veil Is Stained

By Parveen Shakir

Flowers will slip from a torn veil.

Translated from Urdu by Adeeba Shahid Talukder

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Articles by Adeeba Shahid Talukder

No, My Veil Is Stained