Virtual Event with Anuradha Bhowmik, Fiona Bolger, Rosaleen McDonagh, Michelle Myers & Ewuare X. Osayande

Sunday December 4 @ 2PM EST — VIRTUAL

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Anuradha Bhowmik, Bangladeshi American, Kundiman Fellow and AWP Intro Journals Project Winner in Poetry. Her work has appeared in POETRY, the Sun, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. Brown Girl Chromatography: Poems – “Anuradha Bhowmik speaks for all the brown girls who ‘couldn’t have/crushes in fourth grade,’ all of us who weren’t ‘white women/wearing lingerie in the glossy Macy’s ad.’ The speaker’s journey through the minefield of popular culture, family responsibility, and maturation into an unmapped womanhood is handled with deft precision.” —Allison Joseph, author of Confessions of a Barefaced Woman 

Fiona Bolger is author of Love in the Original Language from Salmon Poetry, 2022. She works as a mentor and creative facilitator between Ireland and India. Her other publications include A Compound of Words, All the Worlds Between: An Anthology from Yoda Press Delhi and Geometry of Love Between the Elements and Triptych: Three Poets, from Poetry Bus, Arklow, Ireland. She also works with Outlandish Theatre Platform.  

Rosaleen McDonagh is a playwright, performer, columnist for The Irish Times and a member of Aosdána. Her plays include The Baby Doll Project, She’s Not Mine, Rings, The Prettiest Proud Boy and Mainstream. Recent commissions were Walls and Windows for the Abbey Theatre and Contentious Spaces for the Project Arts Centre. Rosaleen holds a BA, two MPhils from Trinity College and a PhD from Northumbria University. A board member of Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre and was appointed a Human Rights Commissioner. Unsettled is her first book, a collection of essays exploring racism, ableism, abuse and resistance as well as the bonds of community, family and friendship. 

Michelle Myers is an award-winning poet and educator. A founding member of Yellow Rage, Michelle harnesses her experiences as a biracial Korean American woman to create work that raises awareness and builds community. Her writing has been published in Apiary, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Title Magazine, Brevity, and USA Today, has received recognition from the Leeway Foundation, Loft Literary Center, Asian Arts Initiative, and Dodge Poetry Program. Her CCPTV show Drop the Mic has been nominated for six Emmys and her poetry is featured in Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now and My Life: Growing Up Asian in America. 

Ewuare X. Osayande is an award-winning poet, essayist, activist, and publisher. The author of several books including, Blood Luxury with an introduction by Amiri Baraka, Osayande’s latest book of poems is entitled Black Phoenix Uprising. In 2013, Osayande edited and published Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander, a global anthology of social justice poetry that raised thousands of dollars for both justice campaigns. Osayande is the founding editor of The Poetariat, an international journal of working-class poetry. Learn more about his work at Osayande.org. 

John Lavin Host