Date and time: Saturday, March 18, 7-9 PM
Venue: Private home in Long Island City, Queens
RSVP for address: Jee at jkoh@singaporeunbound.org
The event begins with a potluck, followed by the featured readings. Vaccination required. Masks optional.
The Second Saturdays Reading Series is a monthly gathering that brings together terrific authors and enthusiastic readers. When it is held in private homes around NYC, it begins with a potluck, somtimes followed by an open-mic, before the featured readings. Occasionally the gathering is held online. Sign up for announcements.
Bengali-American poet Sati Mookherjee is author of EYE (Ravenna Press) and WAYS OF BEING (Albiso Award winner, MoonPath Press, May 2023). Her collaborations with contemporary classical composers have been performed or recorded by ensemble and solo musicians. She has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, and awarded an Artist Trust/ Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship.
A brilliant first book from poet Sati Mookherjee exploring the exile of her grandfather from India to pre-World War II Europe, his interior voyage from grief to insight and the echoes of those journeys in the lives of his descendents.
“The eye is the first circle,” says Emerson in the epigraph to this stunning first book by Sati Mookherjee, who in widening circles embraces continents and generations.
—Robert McNamara, author of Incomplete Strangers
Jim Pascual Agustin grew up in the Philippines under the Marcos dictatorship. He has lived in Cape Town, South Africa, since 1994. His books have been published in the Philippines, the UK, and South Africa. His forthcoming book, Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight, is due to be launched in Seattle and New York in 2023.
A journey between politics and ecology, Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight (April 2023) — winner of the 2022 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize — bursts open the doors of meditation and madness, of nature and human corruption, throwing the sounds and visions of Taylor Swift, Björk, Maria Ressa, Mad Max, Japanese anime, and the Marcos dictatorship into an unpredictable dance filled with moments of silence and wonder.
"Everything everywhere all at once, yet intimately, pulsatingly at home.”—Yeow Kai Chai, winner of the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize