International Publications
Eight poems, 'The Valentine is Literary', 'A December', 'Quatrain', 'Signature', 'Wundervei', 'The Dead End of the Year', 'This Year', 'Love Dies in January' appeared in INAUGURAL Magazine| February 11, 2025
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A poem, '“Autumn has a language”' has appeared in Literary Veganism| March 02, 2025
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https://www.litvegan.net/2025/03/poems-by-rizwan-akhtar.html?m=1
Two poems, 'Love Lost' & 'The Books we opened' have appeared in Small World City| April 25, 2024
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Eight poems, 'Away', 'Ghazal of Glance', 'Ghazal for Lorca', 'Things Have Stopped Falling Apart', 'The Valentine is a Literary', 'Postcard from Michigan', 'The Reading Partner', 'The lingual life of a New Year', appeared in 3 Quarks Daily| 2025
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https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/04/wednesday-poem-443.html
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/04/tuesday-poem-447.html
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/05/sunday-poem-428.html
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/02/tuesday-poem-440.html
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/02/friday-poem-432.html
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/02/thursday-poem-452.html
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/01/friday-poem-428.html
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/01/friday-poem-426.html
A poem, 'for the love of corners' has appeared in Lucky Bug Magazine| April 25, 2024
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A poem, ‘THIS JANUARY IN LAHORE’ has appeared in JMWW| April 12, 2024
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A poem, ‘Things far off’ has appeared in Hamilton Stone Review edited by Kevin Stein Poet Laureate of the State of Illinois
Link to the poem (Current Issue: # 49, Fall 2023)
Two poems, ‘Vacancy’ and ‘Evolution’ appeared in the magazine ‘Writer's Block’ issue 50 ( Autumn, 2023) housed at the Department of English, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Link to the magazine
https://writersblockmagazine.com/2023/11/17/writers-block-50/
A poem 'Dutch East India Company' appeared in the magazine 'Stand' Issue 238, Volume 21 Number 2 July.
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Two poems, ‘Departure’ and ‘L’appel du vide’ appeared in the 'THE BOMBAY REVIEW South Asia's Biggest Literary Magazine' | Estd. 2014| New York & Mumbai.
Five poems, 'The Man Who Talked to Trees', 'Ghazal of Pain', 'Nusrat Fatah Ali Praises Muhammad pbuh', 'We Loved October' and 'The Way to Love' appeared in "FLEAS ON THE DOG" AN ONLINE PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Five Poems, 'THE WORLD IS NOT SPIRITUAL', 'DEATH OF PRIVACY', 'WINTER’S FIRST RAIN', 'CONFESSIONS OF A DEFERRED MUSE' and 'FOR THE LOVE OF EXAGGERATION' appeared in 'The Antonym Magazine' Feb 20, 2022.
Two Poems, 'Behind Birds are Poems' and 'Library' appeared in magazine 'The Broadkill Review' (Spring, Vol 17.2)
link to the poems
https://www.broadkillreview.com/post/two-poems-by-rizwan-akhtar
A poem, 'The Other Side of Lockdown' appeared in 'Bath Magg' A magazine of new poetry.
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A poem, 'Pause' appeared in 'ink sweet and tears' by Helen Ivory | Dec 2, 2021.
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A poem, 'Demands' appeared in 'ink sweet and tears' by Helen Ivory | March 31, 2022.
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A poem, 'Aposiopesis' appeared in 'ink sweet and tears' by Helen Ivory | Jan 06, 2021.
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Five poems, 'Homicide Detective', 'A Dyslexic Poet', 'Invasion', 'Birds & Us' and 'Rain amidst Lockdown' appeared in 'Scarlet Leaf Review' |Aug 8, 2021.
A poem, 'Shrink' appeared in 'the institutionalized review" |2021.
link to the poem
https://www.theinstitutionalizedreview.com/rizwanakhtar
A poem, 'HOMING PIGEON' 'A REQUIEM FOR KASHMIR' & 'GHAZAL: SOUL’S FOOD' appeared in 'Acumen-Poetry', page #64 |2021.
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