Poetry Reading and Book Launch
Poetry reading
2.0 hrs
January 28, 2018 11:00 am Sunday
Subhashini Kaligotla will be reading from her debut poetry collection, Bird of the Indian Subcontinent. The book was selected by poet Arundhathi Subramaniam for The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective’s second annual Emerging Poets Prize. It is a brilliant testament to the Collective’s mission of discovering and nurturing the best new poets coming out of India and the diaspora. "These are poems of precision, strength, and radiant surprise," says Subramaniam of the debut volume, while poet and novelist Jeet Thayil calls the poet's eye unerring.
Organizer
Subhashini Kaligotla
Subhashini Kaligotla is a poet and architectural historian of medieval India. A graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program in Creative Writing and a Kundiman poetry fellow, she has published in such journals as The Caravan, diode, LUMINA, New England Review, and The Literary Review. Anthology appearances include collections of Indian and diaspora poetry, most notably Penguin India’s 60 Indian Poets and the Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets. Subhashini joins the faculty at Yale University in September 2018 as Assistant Professor of South Asian Art.