Lopamudra Basu and Feroza Jussawalla | Poetry and Trauma: South Asian Women’s Voices Across Nations

Schedule

Fri, 24 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library | Eau Claire, WI

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Catch a glimpse of the richness and variety of contemporary South Asian women’s poetry and see new connections between women’s experiences in the U.S and the wider world.
Co-editors Drs. Lopamudra Basu and Feroza Jussawalla will briefly introduce the Sing, Slivered Tongue anthology of poetry, touching on their goals in curating the poetry of contemporary South Asian women across nations and the varied aspects of trauma that the anthology highlights.
Selections of poetry from the book will be read by the following authors, who will participate virtually:
• Prathim-Maya Dora-Laskey
• Anuja Ghimire
• Zilka Joseph
• Mary Anne Mohanraj
About the Editors
DR. LOPAMUDRA BASU is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Her poetry has been published in Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Barstow and Grand, Dhaka Review, Silver Birch Press Blog, Poetry Calendars of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, Postcolonial Text, and Best Asian Poetry 2021-2022. She is the co-editor of Sing, Slivered Tongue: An Anthology of South Asian Women’s Poetry of Trauma in English, published by Yoda Press in New Delhi, India in 2025. She lives in Eau Claire, WI, and is a member of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild, the Poets of Oak Lair poetry group, and has served previously in the Chippewa Valley Book Festival’s Authors and Events committee.
DR. FEROZA JUSSAWALLA, is Professor Emerita at the University of New Mexico., where she won the Alumni Teaching Award in 2014. She is the author and co-editor of several books, primarily on Postcolonial Literatures. Her collection of poems is Chiffon Saris. Most recently, she has co-edited, Sing, Slivered Tongue: An Anthology of South Asian Women’s Poetry of Trauma in English.
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L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, 400 Eau Claire St, Eau Claire, WI 54701-3715, United States

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