Please join us for a special collaboration poetry reading with SWWIM x Matwaala featuring Nina Sudhakar + Carolene Kurien!
In honor of our 10th anniversary, we are delighted to announce a partnership with Matwaala, which is also celebrating a decade of supporting writers!
Matwaala was launched in 2015 to increase the visibility of diasporic South Asian poets (from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Afghanistan) in the mainstream American literary landscape. The name Matwaala in a transferred sense suggests the intoxication of poetic creativity. Matwaala showcases the diversity within the South Asian community—and within the Indo-American community.
Visiting writer: Nina Sudhakar is a writer, poet, and lawyer based in Chicago. She is the author of Where to Carry the Sound (winner of the 2024 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction and a 2024. Foreword INDIES Award) and two poetry chapbooks, Matriarchetypes and Embodiments. She serves as Dispatches Editor & Book Reviews Editor for The Common and as a Board Member of the Chicago Poetry Center. For more, please see www.ninasudhakar.com.
Local writer: Carolene Kurien is a Malayali-American poet from South Florida. Her work has garnered support and recognition from MacDowell, The Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship, Poetry Society UK, and the Sewanee Writer's Conference. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry London, RHINO, Sixth Finch,The Cincinnati Review, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She currently serves as the Poetry Editor of Okay Donkey. You can learn more at carolenekurien.com.