The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective at AWP 2015

The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective will be at AWP 2015 this year, in Minneapolis, April 9-11th, and we’d love to see you! Come say hi at the book fair at booth #1928 and attend our book launch of Histories of the Future Perfect by Ellen Kombiyil, get a speed critique of your poems plus check out our other beautiful books, Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment & Geography of Tongues. We’ll also have giveaways, guidelines for our Emerging Poets Prize & so much more! Please see our detailed schedule below.

THURSDAY, APRIL 9TH

12-1:15 pm PANEL Room M100 D&E, Mezzanine Level

Queer Poetics in a Transnational World: Craft, Politics, and Publishing [R180], with Minal Hajratwala.

3-4:15 pm PANEL Room L100 A, Lower Level

Intimate Communities: How to Form and Keep a Writing Group That Works [R249], with Minal Hajratwala.

3-5pm SPEED CRITIQUES The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective/Drunken Boat booth #1928

*Buy 2 books & get a 10-minute slot with poet/editor Ellen Kombiyil. Bring a question or poem for critique.*

SIGNINGS The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective/Drunken Boat booth #1928

9-11am Ellen Kombiyil • 3-5pm Shikha Malaviya

FRIDAY, APRIL 10TH

1:15-1:45pm READING #LitInColor at HouseQuake booth #1771

We share virtuoso contemporary poems by dissidents & other innovative voices from India.

2-2:30pm The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective/Drunken Boat booth #1928

Celebrating the launch our third book, Ellen Kombiyil’s quantum Histories of the Future Perfect.

7pm READING House of Balls, 1504 South 7th St

Shikha Malaviya & Ellen Kombiyil read fresh poems crafted at #AWP15 at the Found Poetry JamPoRee.

SIGNINGS The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective/Drunken Boat booth #1928

9-11am Ellen Kombiyil • 11am-1pm Shikha Malaviya • 3-5pm Minal Hajratwala

SATURDAY, APRIL 11TH

11am-1pm LUNCH MEETUP Salsa Ala Salsa, 1420 Nicollet (6-minute walk)

South Asian writers meet up & chow down! All writers, friends, and interested folks are welcome.

8-9pm READING The Loft Literary Center, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Minal Hajratwala & other faculty alumni of Voices of Our Nations Arts workshop for writers of color.

SIGNINGS The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective/Drunken Boat booth #1928

9-11am Ellen Kombiyil • 3-5pm Minal Hajratwala