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 ...

Agha Shahid Ali was born in New Delhi on February 4, 1949. He grew up Muslim in Kashmir, and was later educated at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, and the University of Delhi.

Agha Shahid Ali, 52, a poet who was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry this year, died Dec. 8 in Amherst, Mass., of complications from a brain tumor.

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 … ...

On December 8, the poet Agha Shahid Ali died, too young, of a brain tumor. Shahid was a Kashmiri, a Muslim and a cosmopolitan who wrote splendid poetry in English and lived in America. He was ...

Poetry Center to Showcase Distinctive Literary Voices The Poetry Center of Smith College will showcase the distinctive literary voices of two local poets who have received national acclaim--Susan ...

It was the last poem Shahid wrote, before he died of brain cancer in 2001. Patkin's "Veil Suite" paintings, rooms with translucent walls, illuminate Shahid's poetry in a retrospective show at Mass ...