Bio
Sreekanth Kopuri is an Indian English poet and Alumni Writer in Residence, from Machilipatnam, India. He recited his poetry in University of Oxford, John Hopkins University, and many countries. His poems were published in Christian Century, Memory House, Nebraska Writers Guild, to mention a few. His book Poems of the Void was finalist for Eyelands Books Award 2019. He is the recipient of Immanuel Kant Award for his poems on Silence 2020. He lives in Machilipatnam with his mother teaching and writing.
Sreekanth Kopuri
A Memory
for Mantri Raghu
When my eyes tired in search
of bread and spilled in the
furrows and dragged along
by the iron talons of the rich
ploughs in the grabbed land
of my brothers, and honour
jabbed by the ravens over the
cast(e) garbage heaped on the
head of Bapatla, you were
a meaning without words
my mother's presence in
this primitive wilderness.