Write a poem to a child’ programme held

Hyderabad: Shaheen Women Resource & Welfare Association organised a poetry reciting programme ‘Write a Poem to a Child’. Since 2011, ‘100 Thousand Poets for Change’ has been working with poets, writers, artists, musicians to help organize events around the world for peace, justice and sustainability. Now, more than ever mobilization is crucial, so we have planned this event which is open to everyone to take Creative Actions around the world and in Hyderabad.

The poets from three languages like Hoshang Merchant, Sridala Swami, Saima Afreen, K Satyavethi, Nirmala Kondepudi, Raoof Khair and Jameela Nishat presented their poems to children. Hoshang - Professor poet and critic. Since mid-80s, he has made his home in Hyderabad, where he taught English at University of Hyderabad. He has written 20 books of poetry, and four critical studies. He edited India's first gay anthology Yaraana: Gay Writing from India.

Sridala Swami - poet, fiction writer, child story writer - is the author of the poetry collection A Reluctant Survivor (2007), and four children’s books. Her creative and critical work has been published and anthologized in Wasafiri, The South Asian Review, Her Kind (the VIDA blog), and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, among others. Swami has been a film editor and teacher, curated a radio programme.