How Did Your Parents Die Again Poem
| Fatimah Asghar | |
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| Occupation | Poet, screenwriter  |
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| Website | https://www.fatimahasghar.com |
Fatimah Asghar is a S Asian American poet and screenwriter. Co-creator and writer for the Emmy-nominated webseries Chocolate-brown Girls, her work has appeared in POETRY Magazine,[ane] Gulf Coast, BuzzFeed Reader, The Margins, The Offing, Academy of American Poets,[ii] and other publications.
Asghar is a member of the Dark Noise Collective[iii] and a Kundiman Fellow.[4] She received the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poesy Foundation in 2017,[5] and has been featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.[6]
Early life [edit]
Asghar's mother was from Jammu and Kashmir and fled with her family during Partition related violence. Her father was from Islamic republic of pakistan. Her parents immigrated to the United States. They both died by the time she was 5, leaving her an orphan.[7] "Equally an orphan, something I learned was that I could never accept love for granted, so I would actively build it," she told HelloGiggles in 2018.[8]
Asghar'southward identity as an orphan is a major theme in her work, her poem "How'd Your Parents Die Again?" opens with the lines:
Again? Equally though I told yous how the offset time. Anybody e'er tries to theft, bring them back out the grave. [9] In her poem "Super Orphan," Asghar once once again explores the impact of their absenteeism.
Woke upwards, parents even so
dead. Outside, the leaves yawn,
re-christen themselves as spring. [x]
After loftier school Asghar attended Dark-brown University,[xi] where she majored in International Relations and Africana Studies.[12] Information technology was not until she was in college that Asghar learned almost how the Division of India had deeply impacted her family. Her uncle described how the family was forced to leave Kashmir for Lahore and told her about the impact of existence refugees in a new land affected them. Learning about her family's firsthand experience during partition had a profound effect on Asghar and her work. ""I've been constantly thinking about it, and looking dorsum into it and trying to understand exactly what happened," she said in 2018.[13]
Along with her orphanhood, the legacy of Sectionalisation is another major theme in her poetry. "Sectionalisation is always going to be a thing that matters to me and influences me," she once said. "When your people have gone through such historical violence, you cannot milkshake information technology."[14]
Brownish Girls [edit]
In 2017, Asghar and Sam Bailey released their acclaimed web series Brown Girls. Written by Asghar and directed by Bailey, the series is based on Asghar'south friendship with the artist Jamila Forest and their experiences as two women of colour navigating their twenties. The ii chief characters are a queer Pakistani-American writer and an African-American musician and are played by Nabila Hossain and Sonia Denis respectively.[xv]
"Often, our friends joke that we are each other's life partners, or 'real wifeys.'" Asghar told NBC News of her friendship with Forest. "And in a lot of ways we are. Jamila gets me through everything. She's seen me at my worst, at my all-time, at my most insecure — everything."[16]
Dark-brown Girls received an Emmy nomination in 2022 in the Outstanding Curt Form Comedy or Drama Series category.[17]
Works [edit]
- Halal if You Hear Me, co-edited with Safia Elhillo (Haymarket Books, 2019)
- If They Come for Us (I Earth/Random House, 2018)
- After (YesYes Books, 2015)
References [edit]
- ^ Ashgar, Fatimah (2019-05-04). "If They Should Come up for Usa". Poetry Foundation/Poetry Magazine . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
- ^ abrink (2016-07-01). "WWE by Fatimah Asghar - Poems | Academy of American Poets". WWE . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
- ^ "Dark Noise: Fatimah Asghar, Franny Choi, Nate Marshall, Aaron Samuels, Danez Smith & Jamila Woods". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-05-27. Retrieved 2018-05-27 .
{{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Fellows". Kundiman . Retrieved 2018-05-27 .
- ^ "Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships". Poetry Foundation. Poesy Foundation. 2018-05-26. Retrieved 2018-05-27 .
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "30 Under thirty 2018: Hollywood & Entertainment". Forbes . Retrieved 2018-05-27 .
- ^ "For poet Fatimah Asghar, the give-and-take 'orphan' has more than one meaning". PBS NewsHour. 2015-11-02. Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
- ^ "How Fatimah Asghar turned the traumas of colonialism and diaspora into poetry". HelloGiggles . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
- ^ Asghar, Fatimah; Dove, Rita (2019-02-08). "Poem: How'd Your Parents Die Again?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
- ^ "Fatimah Asghar: Two Poems". Asian American Writers' Workshop. 2015-05-12. Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
- ^ "Fatimah Asghar '11 on the Emmy-Nominated Webseries Recently Acquired past HBO | Mellon Mays Fellowship". www.dark-brown.edu . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
- ^ "How They Got There: Sam Bailey & Fatimah Asghar, Creators of Brown Girls". Her Campus . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
- ^ Camp, Devlyn. "Fatimah Asghar's outset collection of verse, If They Come for Usa, is a warning about the consequences of ignoring history". Chicago Reader . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
- ^ "How Fatimah Asghar turned the traumas of colonialism and diaspora into poetry". HelloGiggles . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
- ^ Brown Girls , retrieved 2019-05-05
- ^ "'Brownish Girls' web serial author: 'We don't need permission' to tell our stories". NBC News . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
- ^ "Brownish Girls". Television Academy . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
External links [edit]
- Fatimah Asghar's website
- Profile at the Poetry Foundation
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimah_Asghar
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