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Hi Rafiq.

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Congratulations for your upcoming book. Hope it all goes well. So first question, how did you first get into poetry?

Poetry got into me, was always in me, as it is in all of us, I suppose. It took the generosity of a group of friends, in Manhattan’s West village, who helped me plumb my depths, every Tuesday evening, over ten years, to try recreate my mother who has been afflicted with schizophrenia ever since I was a lad growing up in Kashmir.

Was that a writing group?

Yes, that was an amazing writing group.

Is there where most of your poetry collection was written?

Substantially.

Stuff got sorted at that workshop.

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Later, at Columbia U, I had the privilege of working with teachers who nurtured me as well as other students, naturally. We read seriously, thematically…reading is crucial to writing…that is where my work was structured, styled, chiselled.

When did you move to New York?