{"id":1282,"date":"1985-06-08T22:56:00","date_gmt":"1985-06-09T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2025-02-27T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:37:18","slug":"agha-shahid-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/agha-shahid-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 16: Agha Shahid Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About Agha Shahid Ali<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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 University of Delhi. He earned a Ph.D. in English from Pennsylvania State University in 1984, and an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona in 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ali received fellowships from The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conference, the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation and was awarded a Pushcart Prize. He held teaching positions at the University of Delhi, Penn State, SUNY Binghamton, Princeton University, Hamilton College, Baruch College, University of Utah, and Warren Wilson College. Agha Shahid Ali died on December 8, 2001.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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A Profile of the Author<\/h2>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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Homage to Faiz Ahmed Faiz by Agha Shahid Ali<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

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