Poet of the Month: Athena Kashyap
“When the media is not objective, catering more to the sensationalist and vested interests, then art can and has to step in…” Athena Kashyap, our Poet of the Month, talks to Maida Salkanović.
Read MoreAthena Kashyap’s first book, ‘Crossing Black Waters’, was a finalist in the Stephen F. Austin State University Press poetry awards, and published by them in Austin, Texas in 2012. Her second book, ‘Sita of the Earth and Forests’, is forthcoming in 2014, and will be published also by SFA Press. She currently makes her home in Bangalore, India where she teaches English writing and literature to college students and whoever else is interested.
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“Close up, her face/ dissolves into blank squares./ She does not know anymore/ who she is.” Poem of the Week (September 24), by Athena Kashyap.
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“tadpoles appeared—/ small, slippery as sperm,/ sliding through fingers.”
Weekend poem, by Athena Kashyap.