MEHFILM; Poetry Film Festival: In collaboration with SAI (https://www.saichicago.org/), October 4th 2025: Matwaala's first poetry film festival.
Matwaala & SWWIM Residency Program, 2025: This residency, in partnership with SWWIM, celebrates South Asian voices and provides a vital creative space for poetry at The Betsy–South Beach, Miami. The 2025 resident poet is Nina Sudhakar. Dates: September 10–13, 2025
The Poetry Wall: Poetry Wall of 24 South Asian Diaspora Poets at Irving Museum and Archives, Dallas, 2021
https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/blog/wall-of-poems?fbclid=IwAR0Jn2FCe2RH7z2u-kluyyW_v_L8aTy6lR4TqipSeJT4yGMEt7hv8YT1sPI
Curated by Matwaala and ThinkIndia Foundation for the Smithsonian project Beyond Bollywood: Matwaala curated the poetry wall project in collaboration with Think India Foundation, a wall of 24 framed poems by South Asian diaspora poets at the Irving Museum and Archives in Dallas as part of Smithsonian’s project ‘ Beyond Bollywood’. On the 29th February, Pramila and Usha, directors of Matwaala read their work at the museum along with two youth poets Sara Garg and Divya Joshi.
Collaboration with Academy of American Poets' poem-a-day program 2025:
The Academy featured five South Asian women poets in their poem-a-day program to mark the tenth anniversary.
Diaspora Poetry collection, Delhi University:
Matwaala is thrilled to initiate the building of a diaspora poetry collection of books (hard & soft copy) at Delhi University's English department to facilitate dialogue between both Indian and diaspora academic and creative communities. Interested poets are welcome to email us at [email protected] to learn more and send your work to DU.
The Academy featured five South Asian women poets in their poem-a-day program to mark the tenth anniversary.
Diaspora Poetry collection, Delhi University:
Matwaala is thrilled to initiate the building of a diaspora poetry collection of books (hard & soft copy) at Delhi University's English department to facilitate dialogue between both Indian and diaspora academic and creative communities. Interested poets are welcome to email us at [email protected] to learn more and send your work to DU.