{"product_id":"animals-prose-poems-on-sentiency-decency-and-indecency","title":"Animals: Prose poems on sentiency decency and indecency","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr. Anita Nahal\u003c\/strong\u003e is an educator and writer. She has worked in higher education, both in teaching and administration, at various universities for over thirty years. She’s been a Fulbright scholar and an NEH fellowship awardee among other laurels in her academic career. She has published, presented papers and seminars, and created numerous workshops in her discipline of history. She teaches at a university in Washington D.C.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eOn the creative side, Anita is a poet, flash fictionist, children’s book writer, a recent novelist, and even more recent short film maker. A two-time Pushcart Prize-nominated Indian American author, she won the Nissim Prize for Excellence in Literature for her poetry-prose novel, \u003ci\u003edrenched thoughts \u003c\/i\u003e(Authorspress, 2023) in 2024.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eAnita was a finalist for the Tagore Literary Prize in 2023 for her fourth ekphrastic prose poetry collection\u003ci\u003e, Kisses at the espresso bar \u003c\/i\u003e(Kelsay Books, 2022). Her third prose poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eWhat’s wrong with us Kali women?\u003c\/i\u003e (Kelsay Books, 2021), was nominated by Cyril Dabydeen, poet laureate emeritus, Ottawa, Canada, as the best poetry book of 2021, for British \u003ci\u003eArs Notoria.\u003c\/i\u003e It is mandatory reading in a multicultural society course at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eAnita has one novel, four poetry collections, one of flash fiction, four books for children, and five edited anthologies published. Anita’s poems have appeared in numerous journals in the US, UK, Asia, and Australia and anthologized in many collections, including \u003ci\u003eThe Polaris Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e (2024), \u003ci\u003eThe Best Asian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (2021–22), \u003ci\u003eYearbook of Indian Poetry in English\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), and \u003ci\u003eTwenty Contemporary Indian English Poets \u003c\/i\u003e(2024), the latter released by India’s Academy of Letters—the Sahitya Akademi.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font7\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eHer poems are also housed at Stanford University’s Digital Humanities Initiative. One of her poems, “Hold on baby, we’ll soon be home,” was included as part of a video produced by Doordarshan TV, Kolkata, India. \u003cspan class=\"color36\"\u003eSome of Anita’s poems are part of an online collection of poetry and art, \u003ci\u003eCrossarts-In Between The Lines\u003c\/i\u003e on Canadian and Indian diaspora women writers. And one of her poems has also been delivered on the moon as part of \u003ci\u003eThe Polaris Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eRecently, Anita ventured into short filmmaking on her poems, and her first short, “Clubs my sinful dance muse,” was awarded the Best Super Short Film Award by the Five Continents International Film Festival, Venezuela (2024). It was also screened at the Alibag and Goa Short Film Festivals in India in 2024.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eAnita is the secretary of the Montgomery Chapter, Maryland Writers Association, and former editor of the newsletter for Poetry Society of Virginia. She is also an active member of the Northern Virginia Writers Club and the Poetry Society of Virginia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eAnita is the daughter of Sahitya Akademi; award-winning Indian novelist and professor, Late Dr. Chaman Nahal; and educationist Late Dr. Sudarshna Nahal. Her family includes her son, daughter-in-law, a grandson, and a golden doodle gal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eMore on her at:\u003cbr\u003eanitanahal.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 64 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (May 12, 2025)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlso available on Kindle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55896325357736,"sku":"klj1787304611506","price":15.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/3246\/4808\/files\/animals-prose-poems-on-sentiency-decency-and-indecency_1.jpg?v=1787304618","url":"https:\/\/www.greenvalleycart.shop\/products\/animals-prose-poems-on-sentiency-decency-and-indecency","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}