Ashna Ali (she/they) is a Best-of-the-Net-nominated, diasporic Bangladeshi poet, educator, and cultural critic based in Brooklyn. Raised in Italy, they are queer and disabled.
A screenshot from a website. Heading reads “Welcome back for Zoeglossia’s Poem of the Week series curated this month by Kay Ulanday Barrett.”
The piece being shared on the page is Ashna’s Ali’s “Top Secret Club Abjection.”
Poem by Ashna Ali
A screenshot from the website Zoeglossia, black text on a white background, of the poem's text;
Poem Text:
It’s H who starts me on the teas, delivers four fragrant boxes,
mixes them herself. She includes ingredients on a handmade label.
C I find on Instagram talking about her herbalism practice,
Poems by Ashna Ali
Screenshot of “In My Dreams I Write Letters to My Mother across the Ocean” by Ashna Ali, black text on white background, from Sun Dog Lit Website.
Poem Text:
Mother, shall I tell you about my unborn child,
forever a cluster of cells? You share a quality:
I shall write you both unsent letters
for the rest of my life. Marjorie suggests that it bobs
Poem by Ashna Ali
Published poem by Ashna Ali; “New York, I Love You” by Ashna Ali, black text on white background, from Sun Dog Lit Website.
Poem Text:
The mornings that the hot clench fastens
my chest to my belly, I wonder who might
see beyond my big grin bounce, suspect
that my day’s first sound is sputter. It doesn’t
Virtual Poetry Reading Flyer
Image of a flyer of a virtual reading Ashna participated in. A social media flyer themed after ripped paper in red and yellow, with white and black text.
Top banner, black font on yellow background, reads:
UNGHOSTED! A Virtual Reading Room Celebrating Asian Diasporic Trans & Non-Binary Writers
Saturday, November 11, 2023
6PM ET/ 5PM CT/ 4PM MT/ 3PM PT
Photograph of Ashna Ali at a Reading
Ashna, an agender Bangladeshi person looks down and speaks into a microphone. They wear a red shirt, gold necklace, and white and black printed cardigan.
