Two events with poet, writer, journalist Jacinta Kerketta Feb. 20 & Feb 21

An afternoon of poetry reading and discussion on Writing Childhoods

with

Jacinta Kerketta  

Date:   Thursday, February 20

Time:   2:30-5pm

Place:  215 Blegen Hall

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Land of the Roots: an evening of poetry reading and discussion

with

Jacinta Kerketta 

Date:   Friday, February 21

Time:   6:00-8:30pm

Place:  East Side Freedom Library

            1105 Greenbrier St., St Paul

NOTE:  This event will be held in English and Hindi and is open to the public. Seats are

limited so please RSVP to jamka003@umn.edu by 8 February 2020.

About:

Jacinta Kerketta is a poet, writer, and freelance journalist, belonging to an Oraon Adivasi community of West Singhbhum district. She writes in Hindi. In her poems, Jacinta highlights the injustices committed on the Adivasi communities, along with their struggles. Her poems are also important cultural and artistic documents of Adivasi worldviews. Jacinta is the author of two bilingual (Hindi and English) full-length collections of poems – "Angor" (Adivani, Kolkata) and "Jadon ki Zameen" (Bharatiya Jnanpith, New Delhi). She sits on the editorial board of "AGITATE! Unsettling Knowledges."

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