Five Poems
Saraswati nods to the white man who, after hearing her liberation poems, embroiders “dowry”
Maya challenges you to a staring contest
Mira – as seen – through a triangle – of encircled wrist
Echoes of cosmic energy – – – sound thrums & releases end as start of something new
Purvi Shah furthers the art of transformation. She won the inaugural SONY South Asian Excellence Award for Social Service for her work fighting violence against women. Her debut book, Terrain Tracks, garnered the Many Voices Project prize and was nominated for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Members’ Choice Award. In 2013, she was selected as a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow and in 2010 she received a Travel & Study Grant from the Jerome Foundation to explore sound vibration in Sanskrit and how sound energy can translate through poetry in English. Her work has also been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Descant, Drunken Boat, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indivisible, The Literary Review, The Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, and Weber Studies. You can find more of her work at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/purvi-shah/, http://purvipoets.net, or @PurviPoets