Kiran Bath, Kabel Mishka Ligot, and James McKenna
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 7PM - 8PM
Join us as we welcome Kiran Bath, Kabel Mishka Ligot, and James McKenna to the store for an event in celebration of Kiran Bath’s Instructions for Banno.
In her debut poetry collection, Kiran Bath travels through the timelines and geographies of the women in her family to understand the inherited consequences of becoming a South Asian bride (banno). Threading stories of pre-partition matriarchs, migrant mothers, and first generation daughters, she renders themes of subjugation, domestic violence, honor killings, and infanticide alongside unrequited love, sisterhood, motherhood, and devotion in cathartic form. The result is the set of instructions left for Banno, a diary that ruptures the institution of filial duty and embodies the tradition that survives it—an insistence for declaring our humanity.
Kiran Bath is a writer and lawyer based in New York. She has received fellowships, residencies and support from Poets House, the Vermont Studio Center and Brooklyn Poets. Kiran is a Kundiman fellow and a Tin House alumnus. Her work has been shortlisted for the Peach Gold in Poetry and the Jake Adam York Prize, and longlisted for the Pamet River Prize and nominated for the Best of the Net. Kiran’s poems appear in wildness, The Adroit Journal, The Brooklyn Rail and other decorated journals. INSTRUCTIONS FOR BANNO is Kiran’s debut collection of poetry with Kelsey Street Press.
Kabel Mishka Ligot is a student and writer from Quezon City in the Philippines. You can find his work in Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature, RHINO, Bear Review, Poetry, Cordite, and elsewhere. Mishka has received fellowships and support from the Indiana University Writers’ Conference, Tin House Summer Workshop, and the Dalton School. He is the 2024 Luminarts Creative Writing Fellow for Poetry. Mishka is currently based in Shikaakwa (Chicago). For a half-decade, he lived in Teejop (Madison), where he taught language and studied information and poetry.
James Chung McKenna is a writer and editor in Chicago. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets, Indiana Review, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. They received their MFA from the University of Alabama, where they were Editor of Black Warrior Review. They are a poetry reader for TriQuarterly and the Assistant Editor of U.S. Catholic Magazine.
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