Whereas that might have thrown me into an identity crisis a few years ago, right now I just feel comfortable in that relationship and how it’s revealing itself to me. For example, in the last two years I think I’ve written less than seven poem drafts. I feel now my relationship to poetry is one I know is there, that I can depend on, but where I also see the poems coming slower to me. Right now, I’m noticing that my relationship to poetry is very different from my relationship to it when we first started-when I was honeymooned by it and completely obsessed. So I’ve been in a relationship with poems for eleven years. For example, I’ve been writing poems for fifteen years now, and probably more seriously for eleven years. I think that, like everything, my idea of form is relational. You are a poet, a director, a screenwriter, and a novelist – how do you know when a story requires a certain form? Do you find one form more natural than the others? Fatimah will be on a national book tour starting October 17th.ġ. This week, PEN America’s Associate Director, World Voices Festival and Literary Programs, Sabir Sultan speaks with Fatimah Asghar, author of When We Were Sisters (One World, 2022). The PEN Ten is PEN America’s weekly interview series. 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony.
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