From Winter 2022 Explore This Issue Syrinx, or The Kiss & Translating the Gayatri Mantra in Varkala By Kazim Ali From the Winter 2022 Issue Kazim Ali Kazim Ali writes in multiple genres. Founder of Nightboat Books, he is the chair of the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Sukun: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. ← Eviction; nostalgia; Purblind; The Troubles; Severance; & elegy for the moaner, 2016 → A Guide to Seed Propagation in Hawai‘i; The Thing about Paradise; & Every Day the World