Atmospheric Embroidery | Book Launch and Discussion with Meena Alexander

Joint Event with Postcolonial, Race and Diaspora Studies Colloquium (Department of English)

Award-winning author and scholar, Meena Alexander will read from her recently published collection of poetry Atmospheric Embroidery, a haunting collection of poems that “travels through zones of violence to reach the crystalline depth of words”, and discuss Name Me a Word: Indian Writers Reflect on Writing, an anthology which brings together the voices of twentieth- and twenty-first century writers from India and the diaspora.
Event will be followed by sale and book signing.

Meena Alexander, in conversation with Prof. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

With discussants, Julia Claire Catalano and Rajgopal Saikumar