Food & Free Verse
A Celebration of Food Through Poetry
Thursday, September 18, 3pm ET

VIRTUAL PROGRAM — streaming live for online registrants

This program is FREE to attend. Registration is required. 
Part of the 2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival!

Join us for the 13th annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum! Register here to access the Festival schedule:

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Food & Free Verse_ - Tell It Slant 2025This is a unique poetry generative writing workshop for writers of all levels. We will meditate on different ways to perceive the way food nourishes the soul, just like a poem does: through memory and survival, through gratitude, through synesthesia, through love languages and through socio-economic commentary. Join us and leave with at least one solid poem draft!
 
Vasvi Kejriwal is a former lawyer from India. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart, and has been a Finalist for the Yellowwood Poetry Prize and the Epiphany Breakout Prize. She is the recipient of the AI Young Memorial Scholarship from the Community of Writers Conference. Vasvi’s poems appear / are forthcoming in Rattle, Four Way Review, Nimrod, wildness, and elsewhere. She is a MFA candidate at NYU. She loves discovering the names of flowers she’s crossing paths with for the first time.

Saranya Subramanian completed her MFA at the University of San Francisco. Her writing has been published in The Caravan, Aainanagar, Outlook, Vayavya, The Bombay Review––among others. Her essay, “The Cockroach and I”, was published by Penguin Random House and won runner up to the Financial Times/Bodley Head Essay Prize. She runs The Bombay Poetry Crawl (which has been featured in the New York Times), an archival space dedicated to 20th century Bombay Poets.

 


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2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival Schedule

 
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