Please join us for an event with visiting poet, Sunu P. Chandy, alongside featured local presenters including poet, Mandy Shunnarah, artist, Sa'dia Rehman, and advocate, Suparna Bhaskaran. They will each share work and then be in conversation including about art and activism. All are welcome.

Time: 8pm

Place: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters in Columbus, OH

Date: Wednesday, August 28th

Suparna Bhaskaran is an author, educator, and scholar. A queer immigrant from the Third World who makes homes between the US Midwest and the global South. Suparna is a founding member of OPAWL: Building AAPI Feminist Leadership. OPAWL is a grassroots member-led community that organizes for social and economic justice and elevates the voices, visibility, and progressive leadership of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women and nonbinary people in Ohio. She has taught in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality programs at Antioch College, Agnes Scott College and The Ohio State University. She is the Director for Research Partnerships at the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School. Her publications include, Made In India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects; Pinklining: How Wall Street’s Predatory Products Pillage Women's Wealth, Opportunities, & Futures; and the Color of Wealth in Chicago.

Mandy Shunnarah (they/them) is an Alabama-born, Appalachian and Palestinian-American writer who now calls Columbus, Ohio, home. Their essays, poetry, and short stories have been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and others. Their first book, Midwest Shreds: Skating Through America’s Heartland, was published in July 2024 by Belt Publishing. Read more at mandyshunnarah.com.

Sa’dia Rehman (all pronouns) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator focusing on race, empire, and labor. Their work explores structures of the family, the nation, the border. Rehman questions how we live within these systems and how they impact who we are, the desire to rearrange, and take them apart. Rehman has exhibited work at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Fabric Workshop & Museum, Queens Museum, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and Pakistan National Council of the Arts. Rehman received the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Fellowship and the Meredith Morabito and Henrietta Mantooth Fellowship. Rehman was awarded residencies at the ArtLab at Harvard University, Film/Video Studio at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Art Omi, Abrons Art Center, Asian American Arts Alliance, Edward Albee Foundation. Their work was featured in Aperture, Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, Harpers, The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, Colonize This! Young Women of Color On Today’s Feminism, Breakthru Radio and HyperAllergic.

Sunu P. Chandy (she/her) is a social justice activist as a poet and a civil rights attorney. She is the daughter of immigrants from Kerala, India, and lives in Washington, DC with her family. Sunu’s award-winning collection of poems, My Dear Comrades, was published by Regal House. Sunu’s work can be found in anthologies including The Penguin Book of Indian Poets and The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. Sunu serves on the board of the Transgender Law Center, and has been named as one of the Queer Women of Washington. Sunu is currently a Senior Advisor with Democracy Forward supporting work across the teams including, fighting back against the attacks on racial equity and inclusion, and working alongside partner organizations to help build a nation that does right by all of us.

Join author and skater Mandy Shunnarah for the launch of Midwest Shreds: Skating Through America's Heartland, out from Belt Publishing on July 16th, 2024. The book covers the history of skating in the Midwest, which is part cultural history, part travelogue, and part memoir.

There will be a reading by the author with a Q&A afterward.

When: Tuesday, July 16th, at 8pm

Where: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters at 1124 Parsons Ave, Columbus, OH 43206

I’m happy to share that there’s a benefit show to raise money for PCRF (Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund) and I’m going to be reading my Pali poems between music sets!

For safety reasons, you have to DM the Instagram account of the organizer to get the address. All proceeds go to PCRF!

I’ll be performing a handful of Palestinian poems at the Columbus Arts Festival this year! Come see me on the Word Is Art Stage on Saturday, June 8th, at 2pm. :)

Other powerhouse poets like Ty Williams will be there too, so don’t miss it!

I’ve got a poem in the latest issue of Yellow Arrow Journal and will be reading it during the virtual launch! I’d love for you to check it out and hear me alongside some other fantastic writers.

Come and join us in celebration of the launch of the most recent issue of the Yellow Arrow Journal, KINDLING (Vol. VIII, No. 1), with a live virtual reading!

yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/yaj-kindling-release-healing-world-spark

Matilda Young, our wonderful guest editor, will be joined by some of the included authors to share their beautiful pieces about advocacy-community care and the spark it takes to set the world ablaze. Join us at 8:00 PM EST on June 1st on Zoom to enjoy a night where our authors make their voices and stories heard.

Zoom link here: us06web.zoom.us/j/86421692261

Let us know you’ll be there at fb.me/e/RMrS7pvs

Purchase your own paperback copy of KINDLING on our website (also available in wholesale!) at yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/yellow-arrow-journal-kindling-paperback

Find out more about KINDLING and Yellow Arrow Journal at yellowarrowpublishing.com/about-yellow-arrow-journal