Precision · Vision · Inclusion
Noor Ibn Najam (Praise to Lesser Gods of Love) is a Callaloo, Watering Hole, and Pink Door fellow. His work has been published with The Academy of American Poets, BOAAT, the Texas Review, and the Rumpus, among others. His poetry will be included in the third volume of Bettering American Poetry and Best New Poets 2018. His chapbook, Praise to Lesser Gods of Love, was selected for Glass Poetry Press' 2018-19 Chapbook Series.
English is a language full of my own guilt. I’ve long felt that my lack of fluency in Arabic severs many of the ties between my father’s homeland and I. The ancestors of my mother’s family were kidnapped and enslaved centuries ago, so I often grapple with the untethered feeling of not being able to name my mother’s tongue.
— from Lineage of Mirrors at Winter Tangerine
