‘Moonweavers: An Evening of Feminist Poetics’ on Feb. 15

By Santanu Ganguly, New Delhi: This open mic session is based on the theme of ‘Feminist Poetics.’ All are welcome to participate with your own poems in English, Hindi or Urdu. Two poems per poet, unless there is time.

Names of participants who intend to read should be sent to ratii_8@yahoo.co.in and/or tripurariks@gmail.com.

We are looking for poems that are informed by a feminine sensibility, poems that question/examine the canon of feminine, that examine gender relations from a new, alternative standpoint, poems that create an alternative worldview of women’s roles and functions in society, one different from the normative, poems that examine women’s issues in a non-cliched light, poems that delve deep into a woman’s subjectivity and capture her everyday struggles for identity and survival. Basically, we are looking for pieces that engage with the idea of gender and offer us new paradigms for recasting the role of women in society.

What we are not looking for rare-pieces that invoke stereotypes about women (women being a mother, Goddess, etc) and talk about preservation/protection of women from a patriarchal standpoint. We are looking for poems that challenge these stereotypes and create a new syntax, a new language altogether, a language that challenges the normative patriarchal discourse.

All are welcome whether reading poems or not.

Date & Time: Friday February 15, 2013, 6.30 pm

Venue: The Attic, 36 Regal Building, New Delhi 110001