Yahya and Your Lock

Yahya and Your Lock
Yahya and Your Lock
Bushra Rehman
Bushra Rehman – Photo Credit: Jaishri Abichandani

Bushra Rehman's mother says Bushra was born in an ambulance flying through the streets of Brooklyn.  Her father is not so sure, but it would explain a few things.  Bushra was a vagabond poet who traveled for years with nothing more than a greyhound ticket and a bookbag full of poems. Her work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, KPFA, New York TimesIndia CurrentsCrab Orchard ReviewSepia Mutiny, Color LinesMizna, and in numerous anthologies. Bushra is co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism.  Her novella Bhangra Blowout is forthcoming through Upset Press. www.bushrarehman.com