A personal reading by the Poet Dr. Fatima Shahnaz's upcoming publication of her poetry collection.

‘SOUL MURDER,’ INCLUDING ‘RECLAIM THE NIGHT,’ NIRBHAYA, ABHAYA, IN FETTERED DARKNESS, and ‘I AM A NATION’

        An evening when protest poetry meets performance art  – A timely book in the Aftermath of the rape and Murder of Abhaya, victimized at the R.G Kar Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal on October 9. This anthology of poetry is a heart-wrenching tribute to all the women who have suffered abuse and violence against women, written and performed by a feminist author who has worked as an advocate of international human rights both in the U.S. and India.

        The poems Shahnaz will read give searing insights into the ‘rape culture’ that uncovers a deeper societal sickness, all expressed in dazzling poetic imagery and form. The author, poet, journalist, professor (frmly), international advocate of human rights, director and actor of theatre in New York, combines a dramatic theatrical rendering with the deeply moving actualization of the harrowing victimization of women in our country, and elsewhere where women continue to be oppressed.

The Government of France awarded Fatima Shahnaz a citation as a ‘Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters’ (Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres); she was one of the few and first journalists and activists who were allowed to visit the gruesome house where the murders of scores of children and women took place in Nithari, on the borders of Delhi, in 2006, when she wrote about the tragedy and interacted with impoverished parents of the disappeared children.

Join the firebrand author in solidarity in our national grieving process in a national tragedy.

All are welcome