The Blue Hour
By Kuhu Joshi
“Unafraid of the street dogs’ / persistent sniffing, the wet Delhi wind, / she nuzzled their jaws in her lap and talked to them / like babies.”
Kuhu Joshi
Kuhu Joshi is a poet from India and the author of My Body Didn’t Come Before Me (Speaking Tiger, 2023). Her work has been published in Poetry, Best New Poets, Four Way Review, Rattle, South Carolina Review, and other publications. She earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she was a Jane Cooper Poetry Fellow and studied under the mentorship of Marie Howe. She has received support from the Academy of American Poets, Napa Valley Writers Conference, Tin House, and Vermont Studio Center. Joshi teaches creative writing and composition at Pace University and City University of New York.