Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Spring 2015 |

susiya: double sonnet 7

By Doyali Farah Islam

for the nawaje clan, and others

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Doyali Farah Islam’s poems have appeared in CV2, Split Rock Review, Grain, and elsewhere. She is the winner of CV2’s 35th Anniversary Contest and the author of Yusuf and the Lotus Flower (BuschekBooks, 2011). Islam’s KROnline offering comes from her current manuscript, for which she has received grants from Canada Council for the Arts and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.
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