Aman Rahman

Aman Rahman is a Muslim poet, educator, and public health worker living on Long Island, NY. He currently attends Stony Brook University, where he is editor of the undergraduate journal Sandpiper Review. His poetry has appeared in Narrative, Consequence, Ecotone, Mizna, and elsewhere. His work has also been recognized by the Islamic Scholarship Fund as a semifinalist for the Adroit Prize and by the SUNY Chancellor’s Award. His poem “Inverse Ghazal” won him the 2024/2025 Porter House Review’s Editor’s Prize for Poetry

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Inverse Ghazal

BY Aman Rahman

There is only you and me and the new carpet and the dusty clock hand, there, slowly bending as the bedroom fills with laughter and late afternoon. There is glee in this time—the hour before departure, the final song that will stick to my skull like honey. The love lyric, the soft clang of bells. […]