Dialect of Distant Harbors by CavanKerry Press

October 4, 2022

Rubicon Press, in Canada, published my poetry chapbook, The Palimpsest of Exile, in 2009 and The Third Glass of Wine was published by the Writer’s Workshop, India, in 2015.

My work appears in RHINO, PostColonial Text, World Literature Today, Asia Literary Review, Del Sol Review and Chicago Quarterly Review (some poems are linked below).

This is a picture of my poetry on stage at the Georgetown Literary Festival in Malaysia. Poetry readings have taken me to wonderful — magical –places, including the International Stage at Het Huis van Poesie in Rotterdam and the Sugar Factory in Amsterdam, the Shanghai International Literary Festival and the Singapore Writers Festival,, the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators meeting in Bangkok, as well as the Irrawaddy Festival of Myanmar.

I have been the featured poet at Rhino Reads, the Woman Made Gallery and Travelling Molly’s in Chicago, the Hideout in Austin, In June 2013, I was invited to speak at Yet Do I Marvel: Black Iconic Poets of the 20th Century, in the Chicago segment of the Poetry Society of America’s 2013 national series, held at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago.

My language is a Bedouin thief, delighting in foreign sands
it understands the erasure of monks, the ritual of palimpsests…

Read wanderlust Ghazal here

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Three Poems — Dipika Mukherjee

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Wherever I’m At

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Announcing the release of CQR #35!

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Four Poems, Mekong Review

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While his Guitar Gently Weeps, I turn, Newcity.

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Travelling in Dreamscapes, Pandemic Publications.

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Hindustani Musalmaan: An Indian Muslim, (poem in Hindi/Urdu), World Literature Today

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K Block, Chittaranjan Park, Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program

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Saudade, Dispatches, The Common

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Dynamite. Seven Poems by Chicago Poets, Newcity

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Migration, Exile…These are Men’s Words. Poetry @Sangam

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Wanderlust Ghazal, RHINO

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Death, A Crow. The Aerogram

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Say The Names. World Literature Today

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ESSAYS ON POETRY

Do My Poems Cry with Me? World Literature Today

Migrant Poetry Festival in Singapore

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‘A Ministry Of Defense, But No Ministry Of Peace’. Harriet, Open Door, Poetry Foundation

A Celebration of Myanmar Poetry at the Irrawaddy Literary Festival

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