Amal Ishaque - Poet, Writer, Interdisciplinary Storyteller

Amal Ishaque is a Pushcart Prize nominated Poet, Interdisciplinary Storyteller and an award-winning Arts Educator. Following in the footsteps of multiple poetic lineages, they conjure poetry as a catalyst for collective liberation.

For more on Amal’s work as an Anti-Oppression/Racial Justice Consultant and Facilitator, please visit cambiumarts.com

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Changing the Conversation: 2023 Arts Residency

March 23, 2023 / amal rana

The Arts Council of New Westminster, in partnership with Douglas College, is pleased to introduce Amal Ishaque as one of our Artists in Residence for the Changing the Conversation Project.This 3 year project will examine how public spaces and public art can facilitate a healthier discourse about housing in the community that prioritizes the perspectives of those with lived and living experience of housing insecurity. Through arts-based engagement, the project aims to develop new narratives around housing and the importance of community coming together to support affordable housing for everyone. We look forward to the work Amal will doing!

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Pushcart Prize Nomination

April 03, 2019 / amal rana

Thrilled to receive my first Pushcart Prize nomination from the Brown Orient for the poem “Jannat”. I have so much admiration and respect for the incredible quality of work in this journal featuring poets from underrepresented Asian communities in our motherlands and the diaspora.

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