Yasmine Ameli

Yasmine Ameli is an Iranian American poet and essayist based outside Boston. She holds a BA in English from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Virginia Tech. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, AGNI, Narrative, Black Warrior Review, Mizna, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing through the Loft Literary Center, and you can find her on Instagram @yasmineameli.

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Yasmine Ameli  | 
Issue 71.1 Fall 2022

I drove to the Blue Ridge Mountains today. The mountains are bigger than I am. They change their colors like children swapping mood rings among all ten fingers. In the evening, the mountains tint blue. It is getting late: dark, cold. I should go home. I grew up north of here. Every fall, my […]