Virtual Poetry Reading: Saba Husain

Every second Thursday of the month, BookWoman hosts a virtual, Zoom-only poetry reading. This month’s features Saba Husain, a Pakistani-American poet from Houston, who will be reading from her debut collection, 2023’s Elegy for My Tongue. “The timeline of colonialism and Partition may seem linear to an outsider, but inhabiting Husain’s poems is to live inside all time at once, to enter a world in which the diaspora is a perspective, a way of making everywhere and nowhere home, of infusing a single moment with all the past and future it carries,” writes Cait Weiss Orcutt of the collection. “Through her eyes, we see Karachi, Mecca, and Katy, Texas as vibratingly alive.” The event will last from 7:15 to 9pm, and Husain’s reading will be followed by an open mic. – Lina Fisher