Anjail Rashida Ahmad - Award Winning Poet, Educator and Activist

 

Poetry:

 

Anjail Rashida Ahmad uses experiences from childhood and the broader connections with family and history to inform many of her poems. Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and coming from a musical family, her poems often reflect fresh descriptions, sensual, musical language inflected with urban themes and bluesy-jazz rhythms. As a result of her recent blindness, she has learned to combine her literary poetic style with the dynamism of spoken word to deliver vibrant and moving poetry performances. With poems related to blindness and disability, Ahmad evidences a vivid candor that bridges the gulf between the worlds of the sighted and the blind.

 

Enjoy a sampling of her work. Click a link to both read and hear the poems below.

 

• A trio of poems from the WFDD radio broadcast for PoetryGSO in Greensboro. Poems included: “a wound’s deeper kiss,” “what some women wear in their bones,” “sunday.”

 

• Two poems from her work-in-progress - “at the edge of the dusky world: poems of witness.” Poems included: “shadowboxing,” “remapping.”

 

Contact Information:

Anjail Rashida Ahmad, PhDc

Director and Associate Professor,

The Creative Writing Program at A&T

North Carolina A&T State University

Greensboro, NC 27411

Tel: 336.334.7771, ext. 2370

E-mail: arahmad@anjailahmad.com; arahmad@ncat.edu

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• This site has been made possible in part With support of the North Carolina Arts Council and the partnering arts councils of the Central Piedmont Regional Artists Hub Program.

 

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