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August 30, 2024 / barton smock

Saturday 9/7, 4pm EST, featured reader Medha Singh, the I Think I Can’t Speak For Everyone Here reading series

Please join us on Saturday 9/7 at 4pm EST for the 12th installment of the I Think I Can't Speak For Everyone Here reading series. Featured reader will be Medha Singh.

Email bluejawedsnake@gmail.com for the zoom info and to sign up for the open mic.

Medha Singh is a poet, translator, and editor. She is editor of Berfrois, London. Medha is the winner of the New Writers Award 2023 (Scottish Book Trust). She has published a work of translation, a collection of love letters that she translated from the French, penned by Indian modernist painter Sayed Haider Raza during his time in France, I Will Bring My Time: Love Letters by S.H. Raza (Vadehra Art Gallery, 2020). Her work has appeared in Irish Pages, Bad Lillies, the Robert Graves Review, Interpret, Almost Island, Hotel, 3:AM, Indian Quarterly, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Poetry at Sangam, The Charles River Journal among others. Her work has been anthologized in Singing in the Dark (Penguin, 2020), The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction (Hachette, 2021), Contemporary Indian Poetry by Younger Indians (Sahitya Akademi, 2020), Best Indian Poetry 2018 (RLFPA editions), Divining Dante (Recent Work Press, 2021) Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing (Red Hen Press, 2022), Converse: Contemporary English Poetry by Indians (Penguin Random House, 2022); The Best Asian Poetry (Kitaab, 2022). Her work has been translated into Hindi, Spanish and French. Her interviews have appeared on the websites of The Pablo Neruda Foundation, Chile; NERObooks, Boston; POV, Denmark, Queen Mob's Teahouse, London and JCAM, Massachusetts. among others. Medha was longlisted for the Toto Funds the Arts Awards (India) in 2019 and 2020. She took her MSc in Creative Writing from the Uni of Edinburgh. Her collection of poems Afterbody is slated to launch in 2025 through Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh.

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