Jessica Nirvana Ram reads her poem “Carving Rivers” from Shō No. 5 (Summer 2024).
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Jessica Nirvana Ram is an Indo-Guyanese poet. She is the author of the poetry collection Earthly Gods (Variant Literature, 2024) and the chapbook in the aftermath (Prismatica Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Prairie Schooner, Honey Literary, and elsewhere. Jessica was a 2022-23 Stadler Fellow, she currently works as the Publicity and Outreach Manager for the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts. She is the Director of Sticky Fingers at Honey Literary, a poetry reader for Split Lip Magazine and Okay Donkey Magazine, and an Associate Editor for West Branch.