V, Reetika Vazirani to Janine Pommy Vega
Reetika Vazirani
No longer living & writing (she committed suicide in July 2003), but Vazirani was too young, too fresh a voice not to be filed here under Contemporary Poets. Paula Span wrote an excellent profile of Reetika Vazirani in the Washington Post after her death.
No longer living & writing (she committed suicide in July 2003), but Vazirani was too young, too fresh a voice not to be filed here under Contemporary Poets. Paula Span wrote an excellent profile of Reetika Vazirani in the Washington Post after her death.
Janine Pommy Vega
She is among the Beat pantheon (but the women always get short shrift) & has a new exciting book: Mad Dogs of Trieste: New & Selected Poems (Black Sparrow). You can read her “Greeting the Year 2000, With Respect” in Poets on the Line #3.
She is among the Beat pantheon (but the women always get short shrift) & has a new exciting book: Mad Dogs of Trieste: New & Selected Poems (Black Sparrow). You can read her “Greeting the Year 2000, With Respect” in Poets on the Line #3.