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A ONE-OF-A-KIND POETRY EXPERIENCE: Hear poets included in VEILS, HALOS and SHACKLES, an international anthology that focuses on the abuse and empowerment of women in our time. During an open-mic period that follows, participants are invited to share a poem that originates from another country.
Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women features more than 250 poems by writers from over two dozen countries, as well as testimony that is wise, direct, and haunting. It tells the truth about the violence and oppression women are subjected to. Its goal is to motivate nations and individuals to support and protect women.
The anthology was conceived in response to the vicious gang-rape of Jyoti Singh Pandey in December 2012 and to the unprecedented public activism for women’s safety that followed it.
Books will be for sale at the event.
Smita Sahay (who will not be in attendance) is an Indian English-language writer whose works have appeared in Celebrating India, Muse India, the Pedestal Magazine, the Cha Journal, and Kitaab, among others. She has read her poetry at 100-1000 Poets for Change in Pune and Mumbai, the Prakriti Poetry Festival in Chennai, and Pen at Prithvi in Mumbai. She co-conceptualized and served as associate editor of Veils, Halos & Shackles and is a member of the founding team of Cappuccino Readings, a poetry-reading initiative in Mumbai.
Charles Adès Fishman is an award-winning poet, known for his memorable imagery and sensitivity to the depth of human experience. He completed a Doctor of Arts degree in contemporary American poetry and poetry-writing at SUNY Albany in 1982, and received a Fellowship in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1995. Fishman co-founded the Long Island Poetry Collective in 1973, and created the Visiting Writers Program at Farmingdale State College in 1979. He was the founder and coordinator of the Paumanok Poetry Award competition, and series editor for the Water Mark Poets of North America Book Award. He is currently poetry editor of PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators.
