Check it out! The Lantern Review blogged about Indivisible's panel at the AWP Launch!
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Dilruba Ahmed interview with The Collagist
Three of Dilruba Ahmed’s poems appear in the March 2010 issue of the Collagist. She is the author of Dhaka Dust (Graywolf, 2011), winner of the 2010 Bakeless Literary Prize for poetry, selected by Arthur Sze and awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Ahmed’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, Drunken Boat, and Pebble Lake Review. Her work will also appear in the forthcoming anthology, Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2010).
Can you talk about the inspiration for “Venice During an Election Year in the U.S.,” “Cathedral,” and “Rumor”? What was on your mind while you were writing these poems?
“Venice” and “Cathedral” are based in part on my experiences backpacking through Europe with my husband. We traveled amidst the heightened anxieties about terrorism as well as anti-American and anti-Muslim sentiments–all the while feeling dismayed by the growing popularity of an incompetent leader who had most likely entered office by fraud. While none of this appears with any specificity in the poem, in Venice I found a landscape that seemed willing to house some of the disillusionment we’d been experiencing.
Click to read the full interviewFriday, April 16, 2010
Photos from SF Launch!
Poet Tanuja Mehrothra (and daughter) and co-editor Neelanjana Banerjee sign books.
Poets Ravi Chandra and Swati Rana take a break from signing books.
Co-editor, Pireeni Sundaralingam signing books.
Co-editor, Summi Kaipa, looks a camera crew in the eye.
Praveen Madan of The Booksmith introduces Indivisible to a packed house at the launch. (Also includes good shot of the samosas donated by New Delhi Restaurant!)
Setting up for the launch: poet Ravi Chandra and editor Summi Kaipa
SF Examiner Article on "Indivisible"
On Saturday, April 3, at 7:30 pm, the editors and several contributing poets who are responsible for a wonderful new anthology, will appear at San Francisco’s Booksmith to celebrate the West Coast launch of Indivisible: An Anthology of South Asian American Poetry. Poet Yusef Kumunyakaa has described Indivisible as having a “seamless passion, held together by the will to cross borders and embrace that which is sacred in the individual.” This exciting and valuable contribution to American letters is the result of the hard work of three Bay Area women.
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