About the Poet Rafiq Kathwari
The first non-Irish recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, I am a graduate of Columbia MFA, a translator of Muhammed Iqbal, one of two giants of South Asian Urdu poetry in the 20th Century writing. My work has been published in The Literary Review, Tin House, Columbia, Quarto, Mantis, The Washington Report, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Irish Times, The Times of India, Al Jazeera, and The New York Times. I am a monthly contributor at Three Quarks Daily.