[Reader-list] Chauraha Poetry Reading by Hoshang Merchant - Tue. 2 March, Mumbai

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From: Arundhathi Subramaniam <arundhathisubramaniam at hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:38 PM
Subject: Chauraha Poetry Reading by Hoshang Merchant - Tue. 2 March
To: asubramaniam at ncpamumbai.com


Dear Friends,

Do come for this reading on the 2nd of March at 6.30 pm at the AV Room.

Warm regards,
Arundhathi
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*Hoshang Merchant*

English Poetry Reading

Tue. March 2nd – 6.30 PM

Audio Visual Room



This is a CHAURAHA presentation.



Born in 1947, Hoshang Merchant studied in Mumbai and later obtained a
Masters degree from Occidental College, Los Angeles. His book on Anais Nin,
*In-discretions*, earned him a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1981. He
helped establish the Gay Liberation at Purdue, and after leaving the
university in 1975, he attended the Province Town Fine Arts Work Centre,
Massachusetts, and lived and taught in Heidelberg, Iran and Jerusalem where
he was exposed to various radical student movements of the Left. He has
studied Buddhism at the Tibetan Library at Dharamsala, North India, as well
as Islam in Iran and Palestine. He has published eight books of poetry with
Writers Workshop. Rupa and Co. published his book of poems, *Flower to
Flame,* in 1992. Currently he teaches Poetry and Surrealism at Hyderabad
University.



Hoshang will read from his varied collections of poetry as well as more
recent work. The reading will be followed by a discussion with the poet,
moderated by poet *Jane Bhandari*.



Admission free on a first-come-first-served basis.