Kirun Kapur at Worcester State

Kirun Kapur is the author of four books of poetry: Women in the Waiting
Room (Black Lawrence Press), a finalist for the National Poetry
Series; Visiting Indira Gandhi’s Palmist (Elixir Press), which won the Arts &
Letters Rumi Prize and the Antivenom Poetry Award; and the chapbook All
the Rivers in Paradise (UChicago Arts). Her fourth book, I Ride Upon a
Tiger, won the 2025 Benjamin Saltman Prize and is forthcoming from Red
Hen Press in 2028. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Poetry
International, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, and many other journals.

Kapur serves as editor at the Beloit Poetry Journal, one of the nation’s
oldest poetry publications, and teaches at Amherst College, where she
directs the creative writing program. She grew up on the eastern shore of
Oahu and now lives along the banks of the Merrimack River. 

The reading will begin at 2:00 pm in the Multi-Purpose Room of Sheehan
Hall, and the free event is open to all members of the Worcester State
University community and our greater Worcester community.

Sponsored by the Judith O’Connell Hoyer ’65 Fund and the Worester State
University English Department.

– Heather Treseler