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Poet in Focus
Towards Expanding the Imagination of Love, Gender and Sexuality
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Queer Poets Collective was formed to celebrate & discuss poetry written by Queer individuals in Bangalore, to document queer voices and experiences. Conceptualised by Rumi Harish, Bangalore based queer activist, poet, musician and writer and Dadapeer Jyman, young queer poet, who recently won two the Sahitya Academy Award, at the national level and Toto funds the arts in creative writing in Kannada. The intent is to encourage young poets to learn and contribute to queer history by memories, experiences and imagination.
This month’s poet in focus is Charu Priyan.
Poets are encouraged to read poems at the gathering.
In collaboration with Queer Poets’ Collective and Maraa
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Charu Priyan
Charu Priyan is a Tamil poet and script writer. He currently works as a taxi driver. He uses humour and satire in his work to has excellent sense of humour and can create his own situations into sarcastically questioning the society. Many times in his scripts he is fierce in his dialogues which scathingly critiques social morality, gender injustice and discrimination in the name of caste and class.
Vinodhini Chinnaswamy
