Raena Shirali

Books

• GILT (YesYesBooks, 2017)

Poems

• “lucky inhabitant” & “self-portrait in the oppressor’s vernacular,” They Rise Like A Wave: An
  Anthology of Asian American Women Poets (Blue Oak Press), Forthcoming.
• “Jodhpur, Jharkhand, Philadelphia” and “GOD OF NEW BEGINNINGS, I CELEBRATE
  YOU POORLY,” The Rumpus, 2019.
• “ojha : rituals,” Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, 2019.
• “daayan at gold streak river,” Poetry Daily, 2019.
• “I MAKE A TOOTHPICK DIADEM & CROWN MYSELF TOKEN,” The Nation, 2018.
• “at first, trying to reach the accused,” “before plantations, women rustle the brush together,”
  & “daayan senses the ojha,” American Poetry Review, 2018.
• “daayan, feet facing forward” & “the procession,” Blackbird, 2017. 
• “Kopili, 8:30am,” Crab Orchard Review, 2017.
• “daayan summons the village ‘goddess,’” BOAAT, 2017.
• “scenario three : ways you asked for it,” Day One, 2017.
• “DARE I WRITE IT,” Dusie, 2016.
• “tristesse” & “Dharavi,” Indiana Review, 2016.
• “Holi: Equinox Approaches,” Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses, 2016.
• “[feet planted],” “Fishing With Broken Lure,” & “cells:,” Crazyhorse, 2015.
• “black magic,” Ninth Letter, 2015.
• “New Year as an Extremophile,” Quarterly West, May 2014.
• “At the Peninsula’s Tipping Point,” The Nervous Breakdown, 2013.

Book Reviews

• Symposium on Analicia Sotelo’s Virgin, West Branch, Winter 2019.
• “The Authors of Our Own Unknowns: Self-Invention in Women’s’ Poetry” (a review of Traci Brimhall’s Saudade, Victoria Chang’s Barbie Chang, & Shayla Lawson’s I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean), West Branch, Winter 2019.
• “Poetry of Place in Debuts by Women of Color” (a review of Tiana Clark’s Equilibrium, Claudia Cortese’s Wasp Queen, Michelle Lin’s A House Made of Water, & Shelley Wong’s Rare Birds), West Branch, Winter 2018.