I’m incredibly pleased to have two poems up at the newly revived Killing The Buddha. Blessed Are You, The Architect Who Shaped the Human Body With Wisdom and A Song of Spreadsheets Teach us to number our days so we may attain a heart of wisdom But failing that, teach… Read more ⇢

Centrist American Jewish discourse is what happens when a too-insular community, connected to a foreign ethnonationalist project, is defined by unrepresentative institutions with artificially constrained political horizons in a country already consumed by its own exceptionalism. We think the Jewish example, with the loosening of legacy institutions’ undemocratic hold over… Read more ⇢

…one reason the Amazon workers’ protests and whistleblowing electrified the United States. To tell the truth, to tell it baldly, to tell it with a clear view of the consequences and to do it anyway — was a shocking and thrilling development in an otherwise deeply anti-democratic moment.” I was… Read more ⇢

Outside my apartment, essential workers braved the mass transit and the virus and the small paychecks. Inside our two rooms, Ajay would sleep and wake as his body needed, and the Zoom calls proliferated as more workers took action—their courage a bright hope against the sirens and the fog. I… Read more ⇢

The next day a surgeon removed my lentil-sized embryo and the fallopian tube it was stuck in. Left to grow, the embryo I wanted so badly to be my first child would have killed me. As a person of Indian descent, I’m familiar with lentils of many kinds and all sizes:… Read more ⇢

Four years ago, my dad died. I wrote about sitting shiva and saying kaddish for him and the solidarity I found in that with Jews and non-Jews alike. We Jews are a tiny community, full of weird and difficult and sometimes alienating rituals in languages many of us don’t speak.… Read more ⇢

Solidarity is the idea that we don’t have to be the same to want the best for one another, that we can keep each other safe, we can share what we have, that we can find our way to consensus about how best to be in community together, better known… Read more ⇢

And this return is one to memoir and creative non fiction, after so long as solely a poet. I’m proud to be multi-genre, multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-everything writer-person, and so pleased that this essay found a home on the Sisterhood blog of the Jewish Forward. Sending hope and strength to anyone facing infertility… Read more ⇢