Would you write a letter to a world leader? Do you think they’d listen? What would you say? Rafiq Kathwari is the first Kashmiri recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Award. He obtained an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia University and an MA in Political and Social Science from the New School University. Rafiq divides his time between New York City, Dublin, and Kashmir.<a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/rafiq-kathwari-mother-writes-to-president-eisenhower/#transcript">Find the transcript</a> for this show at onbeing.org.We’re pleased to offer Rafiq Kathwari’s poem, and invite you to <a href="https://bit.ly/3JUyL4S">sign up here</a> for the latest from Poetry Unbound.

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