Mapping Home - A Collection of Poems
MAPPING HOME takes readers on a poetic journey through the collaborative works of Savita Krishnamoorthy and her 17 year old son, Arjun Nagamangalam.
The collection of verses invites the reader to pause, reflect on their memories, and appreciate the magic of life's most ordinary moments.
The poems gently nudge one to delight in the fragrance of a sweet dessert, the majesty of a beloved mountain, the ethereal light of dawn, the haunting melodies from the piano that fill a home, the resilience of family love through unimaginable grief, and what Home means in all its complexities. Does it dwell Inside/Outside, or in the spaces in between?
Arjun's poems trace a trajectory of growth and insights spanning his life from 8 to 16 years, to "collect all the pieces of my life and map the journey I have taken thus far."
Cover Art: Savita Krishnamoorthy
Cover Design: Kyrie Tong
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*100% of proceeds go to Amrita Seattle's Reading Program to fund their children's library in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, India.
Amrita-Seattle is a 501(c)3 international non-profit dedicated to serving vulnerable children and communities in utmost rural India.
SAVITA KRISHNAMOORTHY is an art historian, writer, organizer, and educator from India, based in Redmond, WA. She is a founding member and co-organizer of Black Cinema Collective, a Washington-based group of multicultural artists+scholars who screen, interrogate, and celebrate works of African and Afro-diasporic filmmakers.
Her writing publications include The Times of India, Feminist Media Histories (Univ. of California Press), Courageous Creativity, and Black Embodiment Studio Journal. Savita is a cultural critic and reviewer for the International Examiner, Seattle, where she shares her insights on literary and artistic offerings in the Pacific Northwest.
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PUBLICATIONS
The International Examiner
Interviews
Seattle Civic Poet Shin-Yu Pai
Satpreet Kahlon - a boundary, a demarcation
Justine Chan - Should You Lose All Reason(s)
Aparna Nancherla - Unreliable Narrator
Tetreez and Tea - Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim and Wafa Ghnaim
Nadia Ahmed - Pakistani-American multi-disciplinary artist
Shruti Ghatak - Myths to Mundane
Art Reviews
Embodied Change - South Asian Art Across Time
Fight Like a Girl - Humaira Abid
the inscrutable shape of longing - Satpreet Kahlon
she walked in reverse and found their songs - Suchitra Mattai at SAAM
Book Reviews
Lengtonghoih, The Girl Who Wanted the Brightest Star
Three Picture Books Explore Family Traditions, Stories, and Cultural Histories
The Flowering Desert – Textiles from Sindh
Film Reviews
18th Tasveer South Asian Film Festival (TSAFF)
Essays
Black Embodiment Studio Journal- Issue 3- 2019-2020
Feminist Media Histories -Volume 7, Issue 1, 2021
Berette S Macaulay, Savita Krishnamoorthy
Readings + Events
✨ Rhymes and Tales - Yuganugoonj California - December 8, 2024
✨ Indie Author Night - Brick and Mortar, Redmond - June 3, 2024
✨ Reading at RASP - May 26, 2023
✨ Reading at University of Washington, Bothell - MACS Research Conference - May, 20th 2023
✨ Reading at RASP - April 28, 2023
Indie Author Night - Brick and Mortar, Redmond - June 3, 2024
Reading at Redmond Association of Spoken Word (RASP) April, 2023
Opened the Masters in Cultural Studies Research Conference, University of Washington, Bothell with a poem from Mapping Home. May, 2023
University of Washington, Bothell
Rhymes and Tales - Yuganugoonj California
Centrum Artists' Residency Library, Port Townsend, WA
Pic: Berette Macaulay
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Brick+Mortar Books Indie Author Night, Redmond, WA
Brick+Mortar Books Indie Author Night, Redmond, WA
