An Evening with Poet | Cheran ~ Cheran Rudhramoorthy is currently Associate professor in the Department of Sociology,Anthropology,and Criminology at the University of Windsor,Canada. His publications include Empowering Diasporas :Dynamics of post-wartamil Transnational politics(2011),Pathways of Dissent: Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka(2010),New Demarcations : Essays in Tamil Studies (2009),and History and Imagination : Tamil Culture in the Global Context(2007). Cheran is considered one of the finest contemporary poets in Tamil,and his poetry is read widely in North America,Europe,and South Asia.Both modernist and unfailingly lyrical,his work is a remarkable blend traditionand inovation.Poetry Anthologies in English ~The Second Sunrise (2012) and You cannot Turn Away(2011).