This is a CHAURAHA presentation.
Born in 1947, Hoshang Merchant studied in Mumbai and later obtained a Masters degree from Occidental College, Los Angeles. His book on Anais Nin, In-discretions, earned him a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1981. He helped establish the Gay Liberation at Purdue, and after leaving the university in 1975, he attended the Province Town Fine Arts Work Centre, Massachusetts, and lived and taught in Heidelberg, Iran and Jerusalem where he was exposed to various radical student movements of the Left. He has studied Buddhism at the Tibetan Library at Dharamsala, North India, as well as Islam in Iran and Palestine. He has published eight books of poetry with Writers Workshop. Rupa and Co. published his book of poems, Flower to Flame, in 1992. Currently he teaches Poetry and Surrealism at Hyderabad University.
Hoshang will read from his varied collections of poetry as well as more recent work. The reading will be followed by a discussion with the poet.
Admission on a first-come-first-served basis.
