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Krishna, 3:29 AM

BY MEENA ALEXANDER

In a crumpled shirt (so casual for a god)

Bow tucked loosely under an arm still jittery from battle

He balanced himself on a flat boat painted black.

Each wave as […]

‘Where Do You Come From?’ featured on PoetryNow.

Meena Alexander meditates on her transnational upbringing and interrogates the question of one’s origins.

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The Center for the Humanities

November 13 – 6:30 pm
Atmospheric Embroidery: Meena Alexander in Conversation with Kimiko Hahn and Patricia Spears Jones
About the event
Join poet and scholar Meena […]

Book Culture on 112th

October 18 – 7:00pm

Join us at Book Culture on 112th as Meena Alexander discusses her book of poetry, Atmospheric Embroidery, and the anthology, Name Me a Word  […]

Indian Poetics with Meena Alexander, Ram Devineni, Vijay Seshadri & Arundhathi Subramaniam

This evening celebrates the release of the landmark anthology Name Me a Word: Indian Writers Reflect on Wr […]

More information at the South Asia at NYU website.

Bloom: The Reading Series at Hudson View Gardens

Poems and Interview in Rattle Magazine, Winter 2016

Click here to read A Notebook is not a Foreign Country, published online January 16, […]

The Statesman

Interview from The Statesman, August 20, 2015.

Read the interview here. Statesman-Interview-2015

Death of a Young Dalit

In Memory of Rohith Vemula (1989-2016)

Guftugu, April 2017

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In Praise of Fragments
Poetry, Performance and Media, Inspired by Sarra Copia Sulam

With poet Meena Alexander, actor George Drance, media artists Elizabeth Coffman, Ted Hardin, Mat Rappaport

Emily Harvey […]

Click the link below to hear Meena interviewed on episode 8 of The Thought Project, a Graduate Center podcast.

Poems and Discussion with The New Yorker, 2018

Click the link below to hear Meena read and discuss Gerald Stern’s “Adonis” on The New Yorker podcast,

February 21, 2018.

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Meena Alexander Poetry Reading & Conversation
Dwelling, Dislocation and the Digital
Meena Alexander, David Joselit, Daisy Atterbury, Iris Cushing

September 29th, 6:30pm

The James Gallery
365 Fifth […]

Sarra Copia Sulam Project

June 16-18, 2016, Palazzo Fontana Cannaregio 3829

A multi-channel installation with live and recorded poetry readings celebrating the life of seventeenth century Jewish poet, […]

Poetry as Diplomacy: A Reading and Panel Discussion
with
Meena Alexander and Naomi Shihab Nye

Date: Friday, March 4th

Time: 5pm

Location: Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, […]

A Reading and Discussion with Meena Alexander, moderated by Leah Souffrant

at the

Second Annual Indo-American Arts Council Festival, in collaboration with Hunter College

Date and Time: October 24th, 2:15 […]

Atmospheric Embroidery (Northwestern University Press, 2018)

In this haunting collection of poems we travel through zones of violence to reach the crystalline depths of words — Meena Alexander writes `So […]

Studio Visit: Meena Alexander: Interview Meena Alexander (Asian American Writers Workshop, 2013)

“Studio Visit: Meena Alexander: Interview Meena Alexander.” Asian American Writers Workshop. http://aaww.org, 13 […]