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"Voices that dare to say the unsaid and hear the unheard… voices that break down barriers… voices that dare to be South Asian, American and simply human…"
Matwaala, South Asian Diaspora Poets’ Collective, is a community of poets whose origins go back to South Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Afghanistan). Our mission is to promote South Asian poetry in the American literary landscape and collaborate with other arts in North America through a festival, publications and mutual support among poets.
2019 Poet-of-Honor: Yogesh Patel from the UK! |
Breaking News!
Matwaala Poetry Fest 2019, NYC/Long Island
At NYU, Hunter College, NCC and the Red Room 
Poster Design by Anannya Akella
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MAPS: Matwaala Anthology of Poets from South Asia
Matwaala reading at Cambridge University, with UK Diaspora poets in May
At Murray Edwards College from 16.00- 18.00 hrs on 17th May 2019. In the Fellows Dining Room (FDR)
Directions to the College can be found here: https://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/about/find-us
Directions to the College can be found here: https://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/about/find-us
Matwaala is thrilled to host the UK diaspora poets at Cambridge University for the first time thanks to Professor Jenny Bavidge and the Cambridge University India Society.
Read about Matwaala at
LucyWritersPlatform by Usha Akella
and
The Birth of South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival by Pramila Venkateswaran
2019 Mugs
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Intoxicated by Poetry
Photo by Nomita Verma Pfaff
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Made possible by USCommunity brought together by poetry
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Photo by Nomita Verma Pfaff
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Matwaala directors say thank you to the collective's poets who made the website possible, website designer Francisca, posters’ designer Anannya and all sponsors and partners.