Rajiv Mohabir

Jul 16, 2024 | orionmagazine.org | Rajiv Mohabir

OnePlease, no more cutesy names. No more names picked by American children gone whale watching. No more Batman, Spider-Man, Flame, Sprinkles, or Storm. TwoInstead, learn how to say the word for whale in the Indigenous languages of their native waters: Koholā, paxat, pótop, sʼéet. ThreeAs a poet, I implore, Don’t write poetry about whales if you’re trying to prove a point. You think it’s going to be easy—after all, social media feeds, news articles, and popular books are full of whales.

May 3, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Mandy Shunnarah |Rajiv Mohabir |Rasha Abdulhadi |Corinne Leong

“If I write love poems, I resist the conditions that don’t allow me to write love poems.”— Mahmoud DarwishLast summer, I began writing love poems in earnest. I’ve been enamored with romantic love for as long as I can remember, though last summer is when I unequivocally knew I was in love—and the person I found myself in the throes of ardor for was not my husband. The heady torrent of feeling poured out of me on the page, and for once, I didn’t loathe my love poems.

Feb 20, 2023 | therumpus.net | Rajiv Mohabir

The Person Is Not The Body: An Interview with Rushi Vyas Rushi Vyas and I connected at AWP in 2016 over the use of sound and rhythm in poetry. Vyas learned Sanskrit mantras from a young age that charged his poems with precision of pulse and echo.