Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Carey Salerno
how exactly to ignite, to speak in sign, what the flashing draws down, damp, out, and what it / means to be a newborn body made of burnt-back embers, drifting over the sidewalk
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Madhushree Ghosh is author of the award-winning debut food narrative memoir KHABAAR: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory and Family (University of Iowa Press, 2022). She is a 2023 TEDx San Diego speaker highlighting food, immigration, social justice and community ("What We Talk About When We Talk About Food"). Her work has appeared in Best American Essays in Food Writing (2023), Pushcart-nominated, and awarded the Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY) Gold (memoir/family legacy), published in the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Vogue India, Longreads, Catapult, BOMB, The Rumpus, Writer's Digest, LA Review of Books, Guernica, and others. Reach her @writemadhushree.