Iqra Khan
Iqra Khan is a Pushcart-nominated poet, activist, and lawyer. She is the winner of the 2024 Disquiet Prize in poetry and the Frontier Global Poetry Prize 2022. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Southeast Review, Adroit Journal, Swamp Pink, The Common, The Rumpus, Malahat Review, Apogee, Four Way Review, HAD, Palette Poetry, Baltimore Review, among others. Her work is centred around collective nostalgia and the aspirations of her endangered community.
Poetry (translation)
مٹھی بنانا
میں سات برس کی تھی، کار میں لیٹی ہوئی
دیکھ رہی تھی کھڑکی کے پار تاڑ کے درختوں کے چکرا دینے والے بھنور،
In my attempt to translate ‘Making a Fist’, I hope to capture the poem’s delicate balance of everyday-ness entwined with cosmic anxieties.