Poet from India to give two presentations

Rati Saxena, a poet from India, will give two presentations on campus, including a Hindi poetry reading.

Saxena's visit is funded partly by the Michigan Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and co-sponsored by many campus departments.

"Dreaming in Another Land," a Hindi poetry reading, is set for Tuesday, September 29, at 7 p.m. in the Cook-DeWitt Auditorium; Saxena will give a presentation, "The Seed of Mind, the Vedic Poetry," on Wednesday, September 30, 7 p.m. in the DeVos Center, Loosemore Auditorium.

Saxena is the director of the Kritya International Poetry Festival. She has written 11 collections of poetry in Hindi and English, and all have been translated into many other languages. After working as a faculty member at Indian universities for two decades, Saxena now writes full time. 

Both presentations are approved for LIB 100/201 classes. For more information, contact Zulema Moret at [email protected].