POETRY & LITERATURE
Usha Akella, Poetry Reading + Book Signing
July 8, 2008
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Beginning with her first book of poems, Kali Dances... So do I, Usha Akella has had her work published in many U.S. based journals. Usha won an Egan Memorial prize for her poem "The B.H.E.L. Vegetable Market" and founded The Poetry Caravan, in 2003, to bring poetry to Westchester homeless shelters, assisted living quarters and nursing homes. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins says Poetry Caravan is “doing literary missionary work by bringing poetry into the lives of the often alienated."
She has read extensively in the US and India. She has received the honor of being invited to participate in the Struga Poetry evenings, the oldest world poetry festival held in the Republic of Macedonia, 2006. She won the 2006 Wine poem award there, the first non-Macedonian woman to do so in 45 years.
Her second book, A Face That Does Not Bear the Footprints of the World, was released at the 2008 International Rumi Conference, Calicut, India, to much acclaim from scholars and poets. Usha Akella is a native of Hyderabad, India, and currently resides in Austin, Texas.
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5501 North Lamar #A-105
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