Pushcart
nominee and 2016 finalist for the Foreword Indie Book Award, Zilka
Joseph shares selections published in Mantis,
Frontier Poetry and
anthologies
like Cheers To Muses: Works by Asian American Women (AAWAA
Press, 2007), as well as from her own collections, tonight at
Curley's.
Born
in Bombay, raised in Calcutta and a resident of Auburn, Michigan
since 1997, Zilka lays out through her work the emotionally-complex
experiences and sensory observations of the life of a Jewish Indian
spanning the Eastern world and the American Midwest, be it the
history of the sari, mortality as it impacts people, bees, elephants
and goddesses, the loss of Eden, or, as the reading below recounts
from 2010's Midwest Literary Walk Community
Open Mic, the varied meaning and applications of individually-
and publicly-declared blessings:
Besides
placing work in numerous journals, including Poetry Daily, Kenyon Review and Gastronomica,
Zilka has also published Sharp Blue Search Of Flame
(Wayne State University Press, 2016), Lands I Live In (Mayapple Press,
2007) and What Dread from
Finishing Line Press; the
latter two were nominated for PEN America and Pushcart Awards,
respectively.
On
a highly visual note is 2011's India: A Light Within,
an interdisciplinary project co-written with Neem Bipin Avashia,
featuring the remarkable imagery of Carnegie Mellon University's
Charlee
Brodsky; Light
is a
companion publication to a 2009 presentation of photography,
Indian classical dance, prose and poetry held at the University of
Michigan's Duderstadt Gallery in Ann Arbor.
Zilka
teaches creative writing and is a freelance editor and manuscript
coach. You can find out about her appearances, collaborations,
workshop activities and more at www.zilkajoseph.com.
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