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Rajiv Mohabir

Poet, memoirist, and translator Rajiv Mohabir is the author of five books of poetry. The latest is Seabeast, published by Four Way Books in 2025. His books have been awarded gold in the Forward Indies and the Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur. His other honors include being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN / America Open Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Publishing Triangle Award. His translations have won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets. He teaches poetry at the University of Colorado Boulder. 

Pancha Maha-Bhuta

You are not this. // The body you now wear / will tear like silk. // Khuda spoke, Be— / and you were a blue expanse, / sinew moored to bone.