the inverted sun (2005)
a collection of 21 short poems, written between december 2004 through may 2005 during and after the months that i lived in bangladesh with family. these pieces are concise, melodic, melancholy, spiritual, love poems.

WAR (2005)
poems from 2002 through 2004. post 9/11 climate, sexual assault, violence against women, patterns of migration and colonization, and the war against iraq are covered here. these are longer poems, many of which i have performed. WAR contains the "classics," if i have any: bioterrorism, not refugees, shimul blossom, and more.

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Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality
(Seal Press, 2006)
three of sarwat's poems are published in this anthology, which "serves as a means of redefining the stereotypical depictions of Muslim women that inundate current western discourse on the Islamic “other.” The anthology seeks to dispel the image of the veil as the age-old symbol of Muslim women's repression and move beyond sterile representations and narrow debates about the contemporary realities of Muslim women. These women engage in discourses concerning their bodies and their communities."

copies of "Voices of Resistance" are available for $15 + $2 shipping for each book.

mail checks (payable to sarwat rumi) to:

sarwat rumi
6102 N. Sheridan Rd. #405
Chicago, IL 60660