Mukherjee, Dipika 2022

Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Blue Hour Reading Series with Willie Lin and Dipika Mukherjee
Haymarket House

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Migration, Exile…these are men’s words.
Women have always been torn up
like rice seedlings to be replanted
in marriage (or another name);
my language weeps its wedding melodies
in many dialects, many tunes
In my next life, O God, don’t make me a daughter:

– Dipika Mukherjee, “Migration, Exile…These Are Men’s Words”

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Watch Dipika Mukherjee’s 2022 reading with Willie Lin at the Chicago Poetry Center:

Dipika Mukherjee begins at 27:45 minutes.

The floor is red cement, cool
in Calcutta heat, the borders black
diamonds under bare feet.
A fierce grandfatherly snore
and the newsprint whirs
to the floor, stirred by a fan.
Up the steps, creeping past
the mezzanine. The women’s room
reveals itself by a hushed giggle.

– Dipika Mukherjee, “Sleep”

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Watch Dipika Mukherjee share poems from her book Dialect of Distant Harbors:

Read Dipika Mukherjee’s interview with Chicago Review of Books:

Outward Explorations and Interior Journeys: A Conversation with Dipika Mukherjee – Chicago Review of Books

An interview with Dipika Mukherjee on her new book of poems, “Dialect of Distant Harbors”

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