Left Out: Stories of Immigration and Exile
Thursday, July 8, 7-9 pm
Join SAWCC for a reading in solidarity with American immigrants! South Asian writers Marina Budhos (author of Tell Us We’re Home, Atheneum 2010), Tania James (Atlas of Unknowns, Knopf 2009), and Rinku Sen (The Accidental American, Berrett-Koehler 2008) will read from their recent work which explores identity, family, and diaspora. Following the reading, Rinku Sen will discuss ways to fight the current anti-immigration legislation in Arizona and elsewhere. Attendees will have the opportunity to write postcards to prominent legislators and the White House advocating for immigrant rights. This event will be SAWCC’s first at the new Asian American Writers’ Workshop space.
at The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
(btwn 6th and 7th Avenues)
New York, New York
$5 suggested donation
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Indivisible: An Anthology of South Asian American Poetry
Thursday, June 17, 6:30–8:30pm
Reading and Reception
Join the celebration of this ground-breaking anthology, the first collection of US poets from South Asia. Newly published by the University of Arkansas Press, Indivisible brings together forty-nine American poets who trace their roots to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The poems gathered here take us from basketball courts to Bollywood, from the Grand Canyon to sugar plantations, and from Hindu-Muslim riots in India to anti-immigrant attacks on the streets of post–9/11 America.
Featuring poets Vijay Seshadri, Subashini Kaligotla, Pramila Venkateswaran, and Ralph Nazareth with a reading, signing, and reception at the wonderful evanescent Tamarind Art Gallery.
Tamarind Art Gallery
142 East 39th St.
New York, NY 10016
www.tamarindart.com
Free to the public
RSVP to rsvp@tamarindart.org
If you’d like to find out more about the anthology, visit http://www.indivisibleanthology.com
Co sponsored by SAJA (South Asian Journalists Association) and SAWCC (South Asian Women’s Creative Collective)