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Tag: Matwaala

Matwaala’s Poets of Colour Series: Native American Women Poets

8th August 20229th August 2022  Lucy Writers

Matwaala’s latest Poets of Colour series brings together four poets and one artist whose work explores the lands, rivers, culture and histories belonging to and inherited by contemporary Native Americans.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Andrina Smith, Indigenous peoples, Jeremy Dennis, Kamala Platt, Lucille Lang Day, Matwaala, Native American Poets, Pramila Venkateswaran, Usha Akella, women poets

Poetry by Mexican Women Writers

22nd September 202124th September 2021  Lucy Writers

Usha Akella and Pramila Venkateswaran present the second collection of poems by Mexican women poets – Ana Belén López, Natalie Toledo, Elsa Cross, Maria Baranda and Mariana Bernardez – held in honour of Matwaala’s 2021 Festival of Poets of Colour series.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Ana Belén López, Carolina V.Zapata, Clare Sullivan, Elsa Cross, Juan M. Esquivel, Maria Baranda, Mariana Bernardez, Matwaala, Mexican Poets, Mexican Women Writers, mexico, Natalia Toledo, nature, nature writing, Octavio Paz, Paul Hoover, Poetry, Pramila Venkateswaran, Susan Ayres, Translation, Usha Akella

Matwaala 2021, Poets of Colour Festival: African American Women Poets

12th May 202112th May 2021  Lucy Writers

For their Poets of Colour Festival, Matwaala 2021 brings together five prize-winning African American women poets – Dorothy Randall Gray, Cynthia Manick, Loretta Diane Walker, Marsha Nelson and Anastasia Tomkin. Here, Lucy Writers showcases their brilliant, moving work, which ranges from a celebration of Black motherhood through to the final moments of George Floyd’s life.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Lucy Features, My Cambridge, PoetryTagged: African American women poets, Black Lives Matter, black women, BLM 2020, daughters, Gandhi, George Floyd, John Lewis, Matwaala, Motherhood, Poetry, Pramila Venkateswaran, Usha Akella, women writers

‘Space Paths’ by Pramila Venkateswaran

2nd July 20202nd July 2020  Pramila Venkateswaran

In our final poem from Usha Akella’s Flora and Fauna series, Pramila Venkateswaran encourages us to look upwards and contemplate the magical, ‘unseen paths’ above the terra firma.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places, Flora and Fauna, Matwaala, Poetry, Pramila Venkateswaran, South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival, Usha Akella

‘Three Notes to Blue Jays’ and other poems by Zilka Joseph

26th May 202026th May 2020  Zilka Joseph

In her two poems, ‘Three Notes to Blue Jays’ and ‘So Much’, Zilka Joseph’s words take flight when describing the dazzling brilliance of a Blue Jay and Hummingbird in the open spaces of Michigan.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Birds, Blue Jays, Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places, Humming Bird, Matwaala, Michigan, Poetry, summer, Usha Akella, Zilka Joseph

Matwaala: Intoxicated by Poetry and to Intoxicate with Poetry

30th December 201830th December 2018  Usha Akella

Poet and Lucy Writers’ Poetry editor, Usha Akella, writes of the South Asian Diaspora Poets’ Collective festival, Matwaala, which she founded several years ago.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Amritjit Singh, Austin, Gandhi, Matwaala, Muse India, Poetry, South Asian Diaspora Poets' Collective, South Asian Poets, The Poetry Caravan, Usha Akella
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