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My name is Jaymie Polet and I am currently a student at Indiana University.

Info on Patel: Trained as a political economist, accountant and yoga teacher, she uses text, voice, body and critical thinking to delve for truth and dissect power. (10) Patel is a founding member of Kenyans For Peace, Truth and Justice, a civil society coalition that works for an equitable democracy in Kenya. The African Women's Development Fund named her one of Fifty Inspirational African Feminists, ELLE India Magazine selected her as one of its 25 New Guard Influencers and Poetry Africa honored her as Letters To Dennis Poet, continuing the legacy of renowned South African anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus. In 2012, she was selected as Kenya's poet for Poetry Parnassus, in the London Cultural Olympiad. (10)

Poems: ICC Kenya Trials: Witness What Could Have Happened (11)

-Her U.S. publishing debut, Migritude, based on her acclaimed one-woman show, has been published in the United States, Sweden and Italy. Migritude went to #1 on Amazon's bestsellers in Asian Poetry, and was a Seattle Times bestseller. It was short listed for Italy's Camaiore Poetry Prize and won Best Book Design in the American Design Awards. (10)

- -In 2012, she was selected as Kenya's poet for Poetry Parnassus, in the London Cultural Olympiad.

From: Nairobi, Kenya (12)

10. http://creativetimereports.org/author/shailja-patel-1/ 11. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/shailja-patel#about 12. https://www.facebook.com/shailja.patel.9883

Jcpolet (talk) 19:42, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

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TV AND ONLINE VIDEO:

► 4:17► 4:17 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lORq_yaMXrI Apr 18, 2014 - Uploaded by splitthisrock Shailja Patel performs "The Cup Runneth Over" at the 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival ...

TED@Vancouver: Drum Rider http://talentsearch.ted.com/video/Shailja-Patel-A-poem-for-Bi-Kid;TEDVancouver

Migritude Interview on San Francisco's Bay Sunday TV show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0fGdQOORMc&feature=related

Gothenburg Book Fair, 2010: Shailja Patel, Nawal El Sadaawi and Ngugi wa Thiong'o http://babelbloggen.se/2010/09/stjarnspackat-i-babelfatoljen-shailja-patel-nawal-el-saadawi-och-ngugi-wa-thiongo/

"Eater of Death" performed at International Bioneers Conference http://www.youtube.com/user/Bioneers#p/u/13/p8bxP2AP5xQ

KQED Spark! documentary on Migritude (8 minutes): http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=14612

RADIO / PODCAST:

Poetry Parnassus, London Cultural Olympiad http://soundcloud.com/southbankcentre/poetry-parnassus-two (Shailja's interview: 8.50 - 13.30)

Bioneers Radio: "All Love Begins With Seeing" http://www.bioneers.org/radio/2011-radio-series/all-love-begins-with-seeing

NPR's New America Now (Migritude interview begins at 30:10) http://radiotime.com/program/p_193749/New_America_Now.aspx

KQED "Against The Grain: Migration and Empire" http://www.againstthegrain.org/tag-directory/shailja-patel

PRINT:

Kenya's Three Tribes http://mondediplo.com/2013/06/09kenya

http://thenewinquiry.com/tag/kenya-refuses/
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ICC Kenya Trials: David vs. Goliath http://allafrica.com/stories/201110281061.html

Seattlest: Shailja Patel Speaks Truth and Splits Fictions http://seattlest.com/2010/11/05/shailja_patel.php

Review of Migritude on Smithsonian's Book Dragon: http://bookdragon.si.edu/2010/10/26/migritude-by-shailja-patel/

Kenya One Year On http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category/features/53669

SHORT BIO CNN calls Shailja Patel “the people-centered face of globalization”. She connects the dots of global justice. An internationally acclaimed Kenyan poet, playwright, political commentator and activist, her performances have received standing ovations on four continents. Her first book, MIGRITUDE, was an Amazon poetry bestseller and a Seattle Times Bestseller. In 2011, the African Women's Development Fund named her one of Fifty Inspirational African Feminists. In 2012, she was chosen to represent Kenya at the Cultural Olympiad in London. www.shailja.com FULL LENGTH BIO CNN calls Shailja Patel “the people-centered face of globalization”. An internationally acclaimed Kenyan poet, playwright, activist, and public intellectual, her performances have received standing ovations on four continents. Trained as a political economist, accountant and yoga teacher, she uses text, voice, body, and critical thinking to delve for truth and dissect power. Her US publishing debut, Migritude, based on her acclaimed one-woman show, has been published in the US, Sweden and Italy. Migritude went to #1 on Amazon's bestsellers in Asian Poetry, and was a Seattle Times bestseller - extremely rare for a poetry collection. In Italy, it was shortlisted for the Camaiore Poetry Prize. Migritude is taught in over 50 colleges and universities worldwide.

Patel has been African Guest Writer at Sweden's Nordic Africa Institute and poet-in-residence at the Tallberg Forum, Sweden’s alternative to Davos. She has appeared on the BBC World Service, NPR and Al-Jazeera. Her work has been translated into 16 languages. Honors include a Sundance Theatre Fellowship, a Creation Fund Award from the National Performance Network, the Fanny-Ann Eddy Poetry Award from IRN-Africa, the Voices of Our Nations Poetry Award, a Lambda Slam Championship, and the Outwrite Poetry Prize. Patel is a founding member of Kenyans For Peace, Truth and Justice, a civil society coalition which works for an equitable democracy in Kenya. In 2011, the African Women's Development Fund named her one of Fifty Inspirational African Feminists for the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, ELLE India Magazine selected her as one of its 25 New Guard Influencers, and Poetry Africa honored her as Letters To Dennis Poet, continuing the legacy of renowned South African anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus. In 2012, she was selected as Kenya's poet for Poetry Parnassus, in the London Cultural Olympiad. In 2014, her work featured in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC in the groundbreaking exhibition: "Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans shape the Nation"



Jcpolet (talk) 21:57, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Comments: I really like all the information you have here. The one thing that I would improve on is organization of all of this information. I would put headings of what sections of the Shailja Patel article you are putting all this information under. Just one thing to consider. Nikdit (talk) 21:12, 20 April 2015 (UTC)