POETRY
SELECTED READINGS
POETRY
SELECTED READINGS
The South Asian Literature & Art (SALA) Festival, run by Art Forum SF, showcases literature and arts from the sub-continent and its diaspora. SALA 2025 was held in Menlo College in Atherton, California on the 13th and 14th of September. Other poetry readers included Ananya Kanai Shah, Nidhi Jaisoor, Sophia Naz, Monica Korde, Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan, Devi S. Laskar, Rashna Wadia and Preeti Parekh; speakers included Abhijit Banerjee, Manu Pillai, Arundhati Subramaniam, Kabir Khan, Devdutt Pattanaik, Imtiaz Dharker and Kiran Rao.
Coinciding with Saatchi Yates's ‘Once Upon a Time in London’ exhibition with pieces by Hirst, Emin, Bacon, and Freud, amongst others. Organised by Ella Eckersley with readings also by James Massiah, Ella Moss, Dhruv Duggal, Arthur Yates, Sami Chokri, Tommy Sissons, Tumi Salu and Binta Yade.
Dhruv Duggal read at and co-produced (under the Poetry Bank) a poetry evening at Incubator, Angelica Jopling’s gallery on Chiltern Street in London, in dialogue with a solo show of works by artist Orfeo Tagiuri. Readers included Nicole Della Costa, Phoenix Yemi, James Massiah, Sonny Hall and Dhruv Duggal.