After a wonderful fall full of events across the country, the Antiman tour is coming to a close. This month we’re thrilled to partner with KhushDC, a social, support and political group that provides a safe and supportive environment, promotes awareness and acceptance, and fosters positive cultural and sexual identity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (LGBTQ) and additional gender or sexual minority South Asians in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. KhushDC will be hosting Rajiv for a Q and A via Zoom to discuss Antiman. Winner of the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and a 2021 Foreword INDIES Winner, Antiman is a gorgeous mix of the poetry, language, and song that have shaped Mohabir’s experiences as an Indo-Guyanese queer poet.

This is a virtual event. Register here.

When: November 12 at 11am EST
Where: KhushDC via Zoom

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rajiv Mohabir is the author of Cutlish (2021, Four Way Books, finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award), The Cowherd’s Son (2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize) and The Taxidermist’s Cut (2016, winner of the Four Way Books Intro to Poetry Prize and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2017), and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (2019), which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award and the 2020 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. His essays can be found in places like the Asian American Writers Workshop’s The Margins, Bamboo Ridge Journal, Moko Magazine, Cherry Tree, Kweli, and others, and he has a “Notable Essay” in Best American Essays 2018. Currently he is an assistant professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College. His debut memoir, Antiman, won the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.