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Nazifa Islam

Nazifa Islam’s poetry and paintings have appeared in Fourth & Sycamore, Hot Metal Bridge, and The Bennington Review among other publications, and her collection Searching for a Pulse (2013) was released by Whitepoint Press. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram at @nafoopal.

Articles

Poetry
Standing in the implacable solitude
I felt sick and doomed
and all too delicate.
Nazifa Islam

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