Gowri Koneswaran is a queer[1] Tamil-American poet, performing artist, teacher, and lawyer whose family immigrated to the U.S. from Sri Lanka.[1] She is a Kundiman fellow.[2]

Performances & Publications

Her poems are available in Split This Rock's The Quarry,[3] Beltway Poetry Quarterly,[4] Bourgeon,[5] Lantern Review,[6] Washington City Paper,[7] and On Being.[8] She was also a member of the 2010 D.C. Southern Fried Slam Team[9] and has performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Asian American Literature Festival,[9] and Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company events co-sponsored by the Poets & Writers Readings/Workshops program.[1]

Career

Gowri was previously The Humane Society of the U.S.'s Director of Animal Agricultural Impacts and a Program Manager for the Farm Animal Welfare division.[10] She co-authored the peer-reviewed journal articles "Global Farm Animal Production and Global Warming: Impacting and Mitigating Climate Change"[11] and "The Public Health Impacts of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations on Local Communities."[12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "gowri k." gowri k. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  2. ↑ "Fellows". Kundiman. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  3. ↑ "How To Enjoy Your Vacation To A Country That Says It Won The War | Poetry Database | Split This Rock". www.splitthisrock.org. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  4. ↑ "Gowri Koneswaran". washingtonart.com. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  5. ↑ Jwilde (14 July 2010). "[POEM] The distance from here to there by Gowri Koneswaran | Bourgeon". Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  6. ↑ "Lantern Review: Issue 2 | Winter 2011". www.lanternreview.com. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  7. ↑ "Capturing Fire: Read Poems by Local Queer Poets". Washington City Paper. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  8. ↑ "Hold". The On Being Project. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  9. 1 2 Washington, D. C. "Gowri Koneswaran". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  10. ↑ "Gowri Koneswaran". HumaneWatch. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  11. ↑ Koneswaran, Gowri; Nierenberg, Danielle (May 2008). "Global Farm Animal Production and Global Warming: Impacting and Mitigating Climate Change". Environmental Health Perspectives. 116 (5): 578–582. doi:10.1289/ehp.11034. ISSN 0091-6765. PMC 2367646. PMID 18470284.
  12. ↑ Greger, Michael and Koneswaran, Gowri (January 2010). "The Public Health Impacts of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations on Local Communities". Family and Community Health. 33 (1): 11–20. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.418.7461. doi:10.1097/FCH.0b013e3181c4e22a. PMID 20010001. S2CID 14917053.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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