Community Poetry Night with Preeti Vangani In-Person
Join us for an evening of poetry with the author of the new poetry collection, Fifty Mothers, Preeti Vangani!
All poets, poetry enthusiasts, and the poetry-curious are welcome.
Community poets are invited to read their work during the first half of the event.
Registration is required if you would like to share poetry.
If you would just like to listen, no need to register.
Guidelines and reading order will be sent out prior to the event.
About the book
Preeti Vangani’s Fifty Mothers weaves narrative and elegy around the figure of a mother, the poems unfolding in the speaker’s Bombay home. Pierced with joy, with music and sweat, traffic and smoke, the collection layers family dynamics, gender roles, and the pain and pleasure of the speaker’s body, while drawing a living, lyric line between the “gone mother” and daughter. In the keen, interwoven contexts of grief, physical pain, and lyric poetry, Vangani’s Fifty Mothers considers the variety of the phenomenal world and discovers an abundance of taste, touch, and mothers.
Preeti Vangani is a poet & writer from Bombay based in San Francisco. She is the author of the poetry collections, Mother Tongue Apologize (2019) and Fifty Mothers, (River River Books, 2026). Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner among other places. Her debut short story won the 2021 Pen/Dau Emerging Writers Prize.Vangani has been a resident at UCross, Djerassi and Ragdale. She has received artist grants from San Francisco Arts Commission, YBCA, and The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She holds an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco and teaches in the program.