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Zamin/Shared Ground: Ghazal as site of collective memory
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Join Rungh and Centre A for this Art and Feminism 2025 event.
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This is a masked in-person event. N95s and air purifiers on site. There will be indoor eating.
Childcare available upon request for in person events. Please email info@centrea.org if you require childcare minimally one week before each event.
This year’s Art+ Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Centre A is highlighting arts and culture as resistance to genocide and occupation. Check out our events every Saturday all March long
Rahat Kurd (she/they) is a writer, editor, and poet of Kashmiri and Indian family origin. The Book Of Z_ is her second book of poetry, forthcoming from Talonbooks this fall 2025.
Kurd draws on multilingual poetics and studies the ghazal tradition in Urdu and Persian literature. Their most recent ghazals in English can be read in the Winter 2025 issue of EVENT Magazine and online at Periodicities Journal. Their first collection of poems, Cosmophilia, was published by Talonbooks in 2015.
The City That Is Leaving Forever: Kashmiri Letters (Talonbooks 2021), is a unique, hybrid book of correspondence and poetics exchanged between Vancouver and Kashmir over a five-year period with poet Sumayya Syed.
Her most recent essay, “Elegiac Moods: Letters to Agha Shahid Ali”, a close reading of the Kashmiri-American poet’s work in translation, was published in the critically acclaimed anthology river in an ocean: essays on translation, by trace press in Toronto in 2023. It was excerpted in Rungh and can be read here:
https://rungh.org/elegiac-