Poetry Books


Exile is Not a Foreign Word (Copper Coin 2024)

We Are Not a Museum (Finishing Line Press 2022)

The Singer of Alleppey (Shanti Arts 2018)

A Thousand Moments: An Anthology of Poems by Maria'Z Hope writersedited by Pramila Venkateswaran, 2016

Slow Ripening (Local Gems, 2015)

Thirteen Days to Let Go (Aldrich Press, 2015)

Trace (Finishing Line Press, 2011)

Draw Me Inmost (Stockport Flats, 2009)

Behind Dark Waters (Plain View Press, 2008)

Thirtha (Yuganta Press 2002)


LITERARY CRITICISM

Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetics: Resistance, Power, and Solidarity (Rowman and Littlefield 2024)


Poetry Anthologies

My poems appear in the following anthologies:

Yearbook of Indian Poetry 2023, 2024.

Vibrant Voices

Matwaala Anthology of Poets of South Asia, 2019.

Chorus for Peace (University of Iowa Press, 2002)

En(Compass) (Yuganta Press, 2005)

Primal Sanities (Allbooks Books, 2007)

Letters to the World (Red Hen Press, 2008)

AfterShocks: The Poetry of Recovery (Santa Lucia Books, 2008)

Long Island Sounds (NSPS Press, 2007, 2008, and 2009)

Songs of Seasoned Women (Quadrasoul, Inc., 2009)

Indivisible: South Asian American Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2011)

A Thousand Moments: An anthology of poems by Maria'Z Hope Foundation writers, 2016.

Vibrant Voices: Anthology of 21st Century Indian Women Poets, Sahitya Akademi, 2022.

Creative Non-Fiction and Critical Essays

"The Poetry of Meena Kandasamy and Usha Akella," Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, 2020.

"Contemporary Tamil Dalit Poetics," Journal of Comparative Poetics, 2021.

"Skin," Memoirs in the Light of Day, 2008

"Recent Trends in South Asian American Poetry," AWP Writer's Chronicle, 2010-11.

"Widow," Adanna, 2011.

"The Enchantment of Bread," www.run-to-the-roundhouse-nellie.com

"Kutti Revathi's Poetry,"A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism, ed. Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young (Chain Links, 2011)

“Making Your Creative Writing Class International in Scope” in Women and Poetry:Tips on Writing, Teaching, and Publishing by Successful Women Poets, ed. Carol Smallwood (Mc Farland, 2011)


"Activist Poetics: Taslima Nasrin and Kutti Revathi," NeMLA Conference Paper, 2013

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