Poetry Reading

Devanshi Khetarpal is a senior at New York University (NYU) majoring in Comparative Literature with a minor in Creative Writing. She was born and brought up in Bhopal, India, and moved to Manhattan nearly three years ago. She is the editor-in-chief of Inklette Magazine, a poetry reader for Muzzle Magazine, a staff writer for West 10th, and a former intern at Poets House. Her poetry collection, 'Small Talk,' was published in 2019 by Writers Workshop India, Kolkata, and her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Underblong Journal, Transom, Best Indian Poetry 2018, Indian Literature, Vayavya, and Aainanagar among others. Khetarpal has studied abroad at NYU Florence and NYU Paris, and is a recipient of the 2018 David J. Travis Undergraduate Research Fund for research on Modern Italy. She is currently planning to write her honors thesis in Comparative Literature on Elena Ferrante's works and how they shape the relationship between urbanity and womanhood. 

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