“She sought poetry as a balm during the dark night of the soul that she, her community, and her country often traversed”
In @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social, Emily Hunsberger reviews Nadia Anjuman’s newly translated poetry collection, “Smoke Drifts” - anotherchicagomagazine.net/2026/06/16/r...
Smoke Drifts contains both free verse and poems that follow a formal architecture, including several of Anjuman’s ghazals, a centuries-old tradition that Uzbek writer Hamid Ismailov describes as “a…
