“Sakhiya, if we forget our songs and stories / who will we become?” Poet, translator,…
Ashley Somwaru
Ashley Somwaru is an Indo-Caribbean woman from Queens, New York. She received an MFA in poetry from CUNY Queens College. Somwaru published a chapbook in 2021 titled, “Urgent \\ Where the Mind Goes \\ Scattered.” Previous work has been published in Lammergeier, Solstice Magazine, VIDA Review, and elsewhere.