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BookWoman 2nd Thursday Poetry is delighted to welcome Sunu P. Chandy and Usha Akella as our features on Thursday, November 13, 2025 from 7:15 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. CST for this hybrid reading, followed by a “round robin” open mic. Both features will be in-store and the event will take place simultaneously on Zoom. Cindy Huyser hosts.If you're joining us in-store at 5501 N. Lamar #A-105, be sure to bring a mask, as BookWoman continues to require them in the spirit of protecting the vulnerable among us. And if you're joining us via Zoom, be sure to register via Eventbrite and to log into your Zoom account with email and password before accessing the link.
Sunu P. Chandy (she/her) is a social justice activist including through her work as a poet and a civil rights attorney. She’s the daughter of immigrants from Kerala, India, a queer woman of color, and lives in Washington, D.C. with her family. Her award-winning collection of poems, My Dear Comrades, was published by Regal House. Sunu’s creative work can also be found in Asian American Literary Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Split this Rock’s online social justice database, The Quarry, and in anthologies including The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation.
Sunu earned her B. A. in Peace and Global Studies / Women’s Studies from Earlham College, her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law, and her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Queens College / The City University of New York in 2013. Sunu is currently a Senior Advisor with Democracy Forward, and a board member with the Transgender Law Center.
Usha Akella is a poet, dramatist and founder of Matwaala, South Asian Diaspora Poetry Collective, now celebrating its 10th anniversary with a year-long series of MehfilIs, panels, and other collaborations. Akella’s most recent chapbook, Embayed, is just out from Dancing Girl Press. Akella is also the author of the poetry collections I Will Not Bear You Sons (Spinifex Press, 2021). The Waiting (Sahitya Akademi Press, 2019), The Rosary of Latitudes (Transcendent Zero Press, 2015), A Face That Does Not Bear the Footprints of the World (2008), and the chapbook Kali Dances. So Do I. (2000). She holds an MSt. in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge, UK.
Contact BookWoman to order your copy of My Dear Comrades, Embayed, and other titles for in-store pickup, curbside delivery and direct-from-warehouse shipping: [email protected]; (512)472-2785; https://ebookwoman.com.
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