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Podcast: Poetry Unbound
Episode: Dilruba Ahmed — Phase One
Description: What do you find hard to forgive in yourself? What might help? In this poem, the poet makes a list of all the things she holds against herself: opening fridge doors, fantasies, wilted seedlings, unkempt plants, lost bags, feeling awkward, treating someone poorly. Dilruba Ahmed repeats the line “I forgive you” over and over, like a litany, in a hope to deepen what it means to be in the world, and be a person of love.Dilruba Ahmed – is the author of the collection Bring Now the Angels and poems featured in New York Times Magazin...