Gowri Koneswaran Poetry Performance
Sunday, October 2
3:30 p.m.
Westminster Presbyterian Church
400 I Street, SW, Washington DC
This event is FREE – RSVP to rsvp@dakshina.org.
Gowri Koneswaran is a poet, singer, and lawyer whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Sri Lanka. She was a Lannan Fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library and has been a featured poet at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Her poetry has appeared in Bourgeon and is forthcoming in Beltway Poetry Quarterly. She was a member of the 2010 DC Southern Fried Slam team and serves as the program director at BloomBars, a community arts space in Columbia Heights, where she hosts Poetry in the Morning and co-hosts The Garden open mic. Gowri is also the founder of The AlternaGirls. Information on her upcoming performances can be found at her blog, Not Here Long.
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