@sehba

@sehba has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in June 2021. Resources sehba has populated their site with include: • Essay in Academy of American Poets: Planting Seeds, Creating Safe Passages • Two poems - Academy of American Poets • Two poems - Altadena Poetry Review • "Un/natural disasters" - essay in Sapan News • "Refuelled: 48 hours with Patti Smith" - Aleph Review • LA Times essay – "My Chicana-South Asian daughter, finding her roots in Karachi and south Texas" • July 2025: Awarded Academy of American Poets 2025 Poet Laureate Fellowship • 2024: Named Altadena Co-Poet Laureate Alongside Lester Graves Lennon • 2023/24 City of Los Angeles Independent Master Artist Project Grant Recipients • June 2024: COLA Artist Fellows 2024 — Grand Performances • June 2025: She Speaks: Reclaiming Identity w/ Consuelo G Flores — Grand Performances | Free Outdoor Summer Concert Series • April 2025: Sehba Sarwar in Person-Odyssey Books, South Hadley, MA • Sapan News: A vision for a future without borders, where all exiles can be home - Sapan News • Poets.LA - SoCal Poet Conversations: Lester Graves Lennon & Sehba Sarwar • Two Poets, Many Voices - Local News Pasadena • "Borders, like people, are temporary" - my interview with Sarah Sikandar in The News on Sunday • My website • Blog – Sehba Sarwar • My novel: Black Wings • A glimpse of workshops I offer • VBB's Borderlines publications that explore border issues in South Asia and North America • Flickr - find my photos here! • My archives at the University of Houston library collection • Home - Altadena Poetry Review • Altadena Library: Immigration resources • Altadena Library District - immigration & fire resources and more • My blog • My site-specific art installation: On belonging - community responses to home and the pandemic • Voices Breaking Boundaries (VBB), the social justice arts organization I founded in Houston • Listen to my interview of Sima Samar about women in Afghanistan, Baker Institute, Rice University • April 20 & April 27 radio conversations with Sima Samar and Kim Abeles on KPFK's Feminist Magazine • November 19: The 2022 Southern California Poetry Festival at Beyond Baroque • March 10, 2023 - AWP panel - Languages of Belonging: Transcending Borders in Life and on the Page • March 9, AWP Off-Site Event: Veliz Books, BOA Editions, & Noemi Press Reading — Veliz Books • April 12: New workshop for UCLA Extension WP workshop - Voices of Color Workshop I | UCLA Extension • March 2023: Macondo Writers Reading and Gathering • March 18: "Reclaiming Witches & Monstrous Women" at Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural • April 2023: Conversation with Sabaa Tahir for Open Book - Pasadena Literary Alliance • May 2023: Festival of AAPI Books - FAB Long Beach • May 2023: "Reclaiming Witches and Monstrous Women" panel at LitFest in the Dena • June 2023: Publication Party | Writers' Program at UCLA Extension • "Call Me Sehba" - Cultural Daily • June 2023: “Cooking and eating a Pakistani omelette,” and “Rotation.” Earthkeepers Handbook, Eccospace, June 2023, pp 176-177 • A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation • Home | Teach Palestine • Help save lives in Gaza, Afghanistan, Sudan, and in 70+ countries • PALESTINIAN VOICES - Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI) • December 2023: Beyond Baroque: Writers for Palestine: Fundraiser for Palestine Children's Relief Fund • April 2024: Altadena Poetry Review - Poetry and Cookies • May 2024: "Embodied Landscapes" reading and conversation at LitFest in the Dena • Asian Poets & Writers in Solidarity with Gaza • Disaster Assistance • Saeeda Gazdar recites her Short Story “Pachhtaawaa” – Audio Archives of Lutfullah Khan • Saeeda Gazdar recites her nazm 2 - Audio Archives of Lutfullah Khan • Saeeda Gazdar recites her nazm 1 - Audio Archives of Lutfullah Khan • Home | 211LA • Pasadena Educational Foundation - Fire Relief Funds • Eaton Canyon Community Relief • Altadena Library fire relief resource page • CCI's grant for artists and arts organizations seeking fire relief • Four poems – "Poetry in English from Pakistan" – Alhamra Publishing • LitFest in the Dena