Monica Mody is the author of
Kala Pani (1913 Press), the forthcoming
Bright Parallel (Copper Coin), and three chapbooks including
Ordinary Annals (above/ground press). Her writing appears in numerous international literary journals and anthologies (including
The Penguin Book of Indian Poets edited by Jeet Thayil, and the soon-to-be-published
Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing edited by Anjum Hasan and Sampurna Chattarji), and has won awards including the Sparks Prize Fellowship (Notre Dame), the Zora Neale Hurston Award (Naropa), and a Toto Award for Creative Writing. To learn more about her work, visit her at
www.drmonicamody.com.
Why is poetry important?
If we are to steal (or claim) what will be lost to (or stolen by) three-dimensional temporal thoroughfares, we need devices and forms that blend both trickery and sincerity. Poetry can do that. It can also amplify—and celebrate.
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