Poet, essayist, and University of Arizona Creative Writing professor Boyer Rickel leads a Shop Talk on the work of Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001). Agha wrote five books of poetry and edited an important collection of contemporary ghazals before his untimely death.

The following websites provide some background information about Agha Shahid Ali:

Agha Shahid Ali’s biography at the Poetry Foundation web site: Poetry Foundation
Agha Shahid Ali’s biography at the Academy of American Poets web site: poets.org
Animated poem of Agha Shahid Ali’s “Snowmen,” read by Carl Hancock Rux: youtube.com
An interview with Agha Shahid Ali from Poets and Writers magazine: pw.org