Fugu Soup Blues (live)
Aimee Nezhukumatathil reading Fugu Soup Blues recorded live at the Ernst C. Helmreich House, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, October 18, 2005.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Response to a Student Email Asking Why He Received a C Minus in Creative Writing While I Vacation in Bangkok (live)
Aimee Nezhukumatathil reading Response to a Student Email Asking Why He Received a C Minus in Creative Writing While I Vacation in Bangkok recorded live at the Ernst C. Helmreich House, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, October 18, 2005.
For Luck: A Seven Day Guide (live)
Aimee Nezhukumatathil reading For Luck: A Seven Day Guide recorded live at the Ernst C. Helmreich House, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, October 18, 2005.
Why I Crave Ribs Tonight (live)
Aimee Nezhukumatathil reading Why I Crave Ribs Tonight recorded live at the Ernst C. Helmreich House, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, October 18, 2005.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil at Bowdoin College
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, live, poetry, reading, poems
Why I Crave Ribs Tonight
Baby, don’t even come near me with that napkin. Just let me at each bone, slick & sweet with smoky sugar sauce. See all the steam when I nudge all the meat off with my tongue? (The only kind of cloud we see this lemonade day in June). All this driving & I need to […]
When All of My Cousins Are Married
I read books about marriage customs in India, trying to remember that I am above words like arranged, dowry, Engineer. On page 28, it says to show approval and happiness for the new couple, throw dead-crispy spiders instead of rice or birdseed. Female relatives will brush the corners of closets for months, swipe under kitchen […]
Small Murders
When Cleopatra received Antony on her cedarwood ship, she made sure he would smell her in advance across the sea: perfumed sails, nets sagging with rosehips and crocus draped over her bed, her feet and hands rubbed in almond oil, cinnamon, and henna. I knew I had you when you told me you could not […]