Author

Namrita Swarup

2 works

I am a poet based in Long Island, New York. My work explores migration, memory, grief, and belonging. My poems have appeared in Long Island Quarterly/ Poetry Bay, Suffolk County Poetry Review, NCPLS Review, and forthcoming in Bards Annual 2026. My Hindi poems and short stories have appeared in Garbhnal, an online Hindi literary magazine.

Poetry

Aangan

The holy ground where we grew up,
my cousins and I. We toddled and scraped
our knees on its uneven cobblestones.

Poetry

While You Were Out

I play hide-and-seek with my two-year-old
but something remains stuck
in the back of my throat.