Mother Tongue's final multilingual poetry open-mic for 2020:
- live at Smith's Alternative, and
- online via Zoom.

Featuring globe-trotting polyglot Kiran Bhat!

The doors at Smith's and on Zoom open at 6.30pm, and the event starts at 7.00pm.

We will share the Zoom link via the event, page, and email at 6.00pm on the day.

To sign up and share a poem in a language other than English, email mothertonguemic@gmail.com.

Poets have 5 minutes to share their poem, plus any introduction or translation into English. All styles from traditional forms from your culture through to contemporary slam poetry are welcome, and you can read your original poem, or a piece by another poet.

Kiran is an Indian-American traveller, polyglot, and author. He is the author of the English-language story cycle, we of the forsaken world... (Iguana Books, 2020), the Spanish-language poetry collection Autobiografia (Letrame Editorial, 2019), the Mandarin-language poetry collection Kiran Speaks (White Elephant Press, 2019), the Portuguese-language story collection Afora, Adentro (Editorial Labrador, 2020), and the Kannada-language travelogue Tirugaatha (Chiranthana Media Solutions, 2019). He has had his writing published at The Brooklyn Rail, The Colorado Review, The Florida Review, Eclectica, Waxwing,The Free State Review, Cha, The Mascara Literary Review, The Chakkar, and several other places. You can currently find him nested in Melbourne, but he calls Mumbai his eternal home.