Register the Missing Book Launch & Kulhar Books Celebration - Kaya Press

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A reading by poet Ansley Moon accompanies a celebration of Kaya Press’s new South Asian diasporic literature imprint.

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Celebrate the new South Asian diasporic literature imprint at Kaya Press with a reading & party featuring poet Ansley Moon! Join us for a celebration of Kulhar Books , new South Asian Diasporic literature imprint from Kaya Press featuring poet Ansley Moon, author of Register the Missing -- A heartbreaking exploration of the often-impossible choices faced by mothers and daughters in a world where over 50 million Indian girls have been lost to female infanticide, feticide and gender-based violence. Moon's poetry collection is one of the few American books to explore the perspective of an adoptee from the Indian subcontinent. Ansley will be reading with Tanushree Baidya and Dan Lau . We're so excited to hold this reading and celebration for Kulhar Books in San Francisco -- please do come out to celebrate this milestone for Kaya Press, and connect over poetry, refreshments, and community at the amazing Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore and Gallery in San Francisco! Ansley Moon (they/them) is the author of the poetry collections Register the Missing (Kaya Press) and How to Bury the Dead (Black Coffee Press). They are an Asian American adoptee, poet, and educator. A graduate of the MFA program at The New School and a recipient of a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant, Moon’s work has appeared in Agni, Hyphen Magazine, Southern Humanities Review, among other publications.

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