Meena Alexander Meena Alexander was born in India and raised there and in Africa. Her poems have been widely anthologized and translated. Her most recent volumes of poetry are Raw Silk (TriQuarterly Books, 2004) and Illiterate Heart — winner of a 2002 PEN Open Book Award. Her memoir Fault Lines — included in Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 1993 — appeared in a new edition in 2003 with a Coda entitled “Book of Childhood.” calabashfestival.org
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Ahmede: You were born to a family of f Syrian Christians in India as Mary Elizabeth Alexander. ahmedehussain.blogspot.com/2007/01/in-conversation-with-m...
Studio is an on-line poetry journal with a unique interest in pedagogy and a focus on the cultural work of poetry in contemporary society. Peer reviewed and published twice a year, Studio seeks to present outstanding poetry and poetry criticism from Canad www.ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/studio/v01n01/s...
Meena Alexander has published six volumes of poetry including Quckly Changing River (2008), Illiterate Heart (2002), winner of the PEN Open Book Award, and Raw Silk (2004). She is also the editor of Indian Love Poems (2005). Her memoir Fault Lines (1993 www.hunter.cuny.edu/creativewriting/alexander.shtml
