Summary

In celebration of International Women’s Day, four leading international women authors will read their poetry on  human rights and address current issues around the world today. Lifelines: The Literature of Human Rights is held in collaboration with The Center for Global Peace at American University, March 6, 2003. Reetika Vazinrani reads her works.

Mahnaz Afkhami introduces Reetika Vazirani. Reetika shares her background – born in India, and raised in the Washington, DC area. She mentions that, had it not been for the African Americans struggle in the United States, many others would also not have a home in this country.  She introduces her poetry as containing questions of home, exile, and belonging. Her poetry asks: what is global? what is local? Thinking of refugees, many cannot find a home, so their challenge is to make a home wherever they are at. She reads her poems: Skin, Mouth Organs and Drums, Hollywood and Hydroquinone, India’s Independence came in 1947, The Dream Song, Dedicated to You, and It’s A Young Country.

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