I am Abubakr Jamal (he/him), a PhD student from Tamil Nadu. I study Islam, and these poems are in many ways inspired by the Sufi tradition and Islamic poetry.

Posthuman Threads: Forest was part of Posthuman Threads, a series of poems I wrote with a South Asian ecopoeisis collective in August 2023 about the Anthropocene and neoliberal modernity, inspired by Milton. I urge interested readers to visit our website.

The Visa Process was written in 2023 about my experience with the Schengen visa, an experience shared by plenty of scholars in the Global South.

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.