Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri-American poet who was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry, died Dec. 8 at his brother’s home in Amherst, Mass., where he was staying. He was 52 and ...

Years later, here is a book, not the first on Agha Shahid Ali’s work, but seemingly a first on the man behind the poems. What came before This is a book that claims Shahid as a “modern-day ...

Last week Agha Shahid Ali’s eighth book of poems, Rooms Are Never Finished (W.W. Norton), was named a finalist for the 2001 National Book Awards. A Muslim born in Kashmir, he was educated in … ...

The distinguished Kashmir-born American poet Agha Shahid Ali, whose most recent book of poems Rooms Are Never Finished (WW Norton) was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Awards, passed away in ...

For me, Shahid Ali is like my mother tongue, a language I will always be deeply connected to. Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri-American poet, was born in Delhi and spent his childhood in Srinagar until ...