WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
Please join us for a reading and conversation with Divya Victor and Aaron Cohick. They will be reading from and sharing more about their collaborative work CURB, a double-sided accordion book with poems by Divya Victor and design and printing by Aaron Cohick. CURB is a series of poems documenting the assaults and murders of Indian-Americans and Indian immigrants in public spaces in the United States.
About the Speakers
Divya Victor is a Tamil-American poet, essayist, and educator. She is the author of CURB (Nightboat Books), which won the 2022 PEN America Open Book Award and the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She is an Associate Professor of English and Writing at Michigan State University and is the Director of the Creative Writing Program.
Aaron Cohick is a letterpress printer/artist/publisher based in Louisville, KY. His work focuses on the intersection of text, image, community, and collaboration. He is the founder and proprietor of the NewLights Press, and from 2010 – 2023 he was also the Printer of The Press at Colorado College. Aaron’s workis held in public and private collections in the US, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia.
