ISO Break v. 24 Count Every Breath Climate Change Showcase
Iso Break v.24: Count Every Breath Climate Change Showcase Saturday August 19 2023
On Saturday August 19 APWT and the New York Writers Workshop will present the globally acclaimed reading series Iso Break v. 24 Climate Change Showcase in celebration of the release of Count Every Breath: a Climate Anthology edited by APWT member Vinita Agrawal. Vinita’s latest collection of poems Twilight Language was the winner of the Proverse prize Hongkong 2021. She has authored five books of poetry. She was awarded the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2018 and the Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award for Literary Excellence 2015. She is Poetry Editor with Usawa. Iso Break v.24 showcases other contributing APWT members: writer and editor from Mumbai Michelle D'costa, author of the poetry chapbook Gulf (Yavanika Press, 2021) and co-host of the author interview podcast Books and Beyond With Bound; Tom Doig a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, living in Meanjin Brisbane author of Hazelwood (2020) The Coal Face (2015) Moron to Moron: Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure (2013) and editor of Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa (2020); Mary Newell, author of the poetry chapbooks RE-SURGE (Trainwreck Press 2021) and TILT/HOVER/Veer and co-editor of Poetics for the More-than-Human-World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary and the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics and poet Pervin Saket, winner of the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2021, author of the novel Urmila and poetry collection A Tinge of Tumeric. Pervin is poetry editor of The Bombay Literary Magazine and the co-founder of the annual Dum Pukht Writers’ Workshop. Hosted by New York Writers Workshop founder Tim Tomlinson. Join these incredibly talented writers and poets as they seek to unravel and respond to the defining global crisis of our times. Not to be missed! Iso Break streams live on Facebook and YouTube. Check our socials one week out from the event to register.
ISOBREAK#23: APWT NEW MEMBER SHOWCASE
On Saturday, June 17th 8 AM (NYC EST) / 10 PM (AEST) APWT and the New York Writers Workshop will present the globally acclaimed reading series ISOBREAK v.23: New Members Showcase. Featuring ANNA V. Q. ROSS’s whose most recent book, Flutter, Kick (Red Hen Press), won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award and who is a Fulbright Scholar, a Mass Cultural Council fellow, and poetry editor for Salamander; Vietnamese-American writer JOSHUA NGUYEN, author of Come Clean (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, the Writers' League of Texas Discovery Award, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Poetry Award as well as a former collegiate national poetry slam champion (CUPSI); poet, essayist, priestess, badass mom, and host of the podcast, Spiritual Grit, a show at the intersection of spirituality and activism LESLIANN HOBAYAN, author of the chapbook, Divorce Papers: A Slow Burn (Finishing Line Press, 2023) and awarded the James Merrill Fellowship for Poetry at the Vermont Studio Center; bilingual poet and writer from Singapore whose poems have been published in The Best Asian Poetry 2021, SHILPA DIKSH*T THAPLIYAL; and LUU DIEU VAN, a prolific Vietnamese poet, translator and co-editor of the prominent Vietnamese-English literary magazine Da Mau, whose books include The Transparent Greenness of Grass, M of December and most recently She, Self-Winding (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). MC'ed by Pushcart Prize winning poet, translator and recent memoirist of the 2022 Connecticut Book Awards finalist Correctional (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022) and forthcoming TEDx talk on #ImpuritanThinking, RAVI SHANKAR, called 'an absolutely brilliant writer' and 'a diaspora icon' in The Hindu. Watch our socials a week out from the event to register #isobreak #APWT #writing #literature #readings #poetry
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Isobreak v.22: Food Invokes Poetry Showcase
Isobreak v.22: Food Invokes Poetry Showcase Sunday April 23 2023 9 AM (IST) 2:30 PM (AEDT) and Saturday April 22nd 11.30 PM (NYEST). No matter if it's breakfast, lunch or midnight snack time wherever you are in the world join Asia Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT) and the New York Writers Workshop (NYWW) for a celebration of five amazing female poets and two of our most elemental forms of nourishment: poetry and food. Introduced by chef de cuisine, TEDx speaker and author of the new poetry collection Woman by the Door KASHIANA SINGH and featuring poet, novelist, screenwriter, Iowa’s International Writing Program alumna and acclaimed pastry chef of such delicious books as Bombay Hangovers, Four Degrees of Separation and Paper Asylum, ROCHELLE POTKAR; the savory socially conscious poet, Usawa poetry editor, Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize winner and author of five books including Twilight Language VINITA AGRAWAL; literary gourmand, former poet laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island, co-director of Matwaala: South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival, and author most recently of We are Not a Museum PRAMILA VENKATESWARAN and saveur, literary foodie and two-time winner of the Bridport Prize ELAINE CHIEW, author of The Heartsick Diaspora and editor/compiler of Cooked Up: Food Fiction From Around the World. MC'ed by Pushcart Prize winning poet, translator, and essayist, RAVI SHANKAR known for his buttery delivery and perfectly poached poems. Bring your hungry minds! Iso Break will stream live on Facebook and YouTube. Watch APWT socials a week out from the event to register.
Isobreak #20: India Showcase
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In anticipation of the first post-pandemic conference to be held in Bangalore, India at the end of November., on Saturday, October 22nd (6 AM NYC EST) / 2:30 PM (IST) / 8 PM (AEST), join the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT) and the New York Writers Workshop (NYWW) for #Isobreak. Join editors VINITA AGRAWAL, joint recipient of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2018 and Poetry Editor with Usawa Literary Review, and SUKRITA PUAL KUMAR, fellow at HK Baptist University HK and the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and resident poet at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, as they introduce the anthology, Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2020-21 (Hawakal Publishers) along with four Indian contributors: ANJALI PUROHIT, painter, writer, poet, translator, founder and curator of The Cappuccino Adda (formerly, Cappuccino Readings); SMITA SAHAY, Editor-in-Chief of the Usawa Literary Review and the Poetry Editor for SPEAK the Magazine; GAYATRI LAKHIANA CHAWLA, award -winning poet, translator and French teacher from Mumbai and winner of the Rahi Kadam Inspiration Award 2021; and JINEADRA JAIN, a retired banker whose creative nonfiction has appeared in Meniscus, Rattle, and TEXT. MC'ed by Pushcart Prize winning poet, translator and recent memoirist of the finalist for the 2022 Connecticut Book Awards Correctional, RAVI SHANKAR, called 'an absolutely brilliant writer' and 'a diaspora icon' in The Hindu. #isobreak #APWT #writing #literature #readings
Isobreak#19
#ISOBREAKV19 Join us for IsoBreak#19, the global reading and conversation series co-sponsored by the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators and New York Writers Workshop on Saturday, 10th September 11 AM (PST) / 2 PM (USEST) / 7 PM (UK). Featuring BRYAN THAO WORRA, the Lao-Minnesotan Poet Laureate, President of the International Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and the author of eight books; Indonesian writer and artist KAIRANI BAROKKA, editor of Modern Poetry in Translation whose most recent installation was showcased at the Museum Nasional for Jakarta Biennale and whose latest book "Ultimatum Orangutan" (Nine Arches) was shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize; ZILKA JOSEPH a Zell Fellowship and Michael R. Gutterman award winner whose books have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and commended by PEN America and whose new book "In Our Beautiful Bones", was a Foreword INDIES award finalist; Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hartford and Lambda Literary Award winner BENJAMIN GROSSBERG whose latest book of poems, "My Husband Would" (University of Tampa) won the 2021 Connecticut Book Award and will be featured at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival and Bali-born CYNTHIA DEWI OKA recipient of the Amy Clampitt Residency and Tupelo Press Quarterly Poetry Prize, author of the forthcoming "A Tinderbox in Three Acts" (BOA Editions) as well as "Fire Is Not a Country" (Northwestern University University Press) and whose writing appears in The Atlantic, Oprah Daily, Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine, Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America , and elsewhere. MC'ed by The Pushcart Prize winning poet, translator and recent memoirist of Correctional, RAVI SHANKAR, called 'an absolutely brilliant writer' and 'a diaspora icon' in The Hindu. Watch our socials a week out from the event to register #isobreak #APWT #writing #literature #readings
