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Rukan Saif

Rukan Saif is a Bangladeshi American poet from Los Angeles. She is a Fall 2024 Digital Resident with The Seventh Wave, a member of the 2025 Brooklyn Poets Mentorship Cohort, and a reader for ONLY POEMS. Her work has appeared in the Penn Review, phoebe, Furrow Magazine, ONE ART, and elsewhere. She lives in Boston.

Poetry, Reviews

Rukan Saif

Apr 2, 2025

“A black sheet between present and ancestors”: Kiran Bath’s Instructions for Banno

It is as if we are falling backward, towards the sky, towards the structural silencing of bannos, and Bath’s words wrap around us like curled balloon string and lead us back toward the ground.

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Rukan Saif

“A black sheet between present and ancestors”: Kiran Bath’s Instructions for Banno