by Kazim AliCrudité and crackers. That’s how my own myth starts.I’m slicing cucumbers when the phone rings with that...
Kazim Ali
Cathedral
by Kazim AliI walk instead along the river, my cathedralnot of stone or god but water made. A woman in the median is...
Citizenship
by Kazim AliIf it isn’t where you enter but where you exit Who doesn’t try to grab and devour what one loves That last...

KAZIM ALI’s most recent book is Sukun: New and Selected Poems. He founded Nightboat Books and is currently a professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Arts at the University of California, San Diego.
