Nandana Dev Sen
Nandana Dev Sen
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JLF New York: The Poetic Imagination: Rhyme, Rhythm and Reason - Vijay Seshadri, Arundhathi Subramaniam and Nandana Dev Sen in conversation

  • The Center for Fiction 15 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, NY, 11217 United States (map)

A series of multivocal poetry readings where different rhythms and styles converge in a joyous celebration of imaginative possibility. Pulitzer prize winning poet, essayist and literary critic Vijay Seshadri poetry collection, That Was Now, This Is Then, weaves through the paradoxes of time and space offering refuge in emotionally turbulent times. Sahitya Akademi Award winning poet and author Arundhathi Subramaniam’s poetry collection, Love Without A Story, celebrates an expanding kinship: of passion and friendship, mythic quest and modern-day longing, in a world animated by dialogue and dissent, delirium and silence. In conversation with celebrated writer Nandana Dev Sen whose latest, Acrobat, is a radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politics that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life.