Book Launch | Register the Missing by Ansley Moon

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ABOUT THE BOOK

A poetic tribute to the oft-silenced grief induced by gender-based violence.

A heartbreaking exploration of the often-impossible choices faced by mothers and daughters in a world where over 50 million Indian girls have been lost to female infanticide, feticide and gender-based violence.

Her poetry collection is one of the few works-poetic or otherwise-to explore the perspective of an adoptee from the Indian subcontinent.

Moon situates her own story within a broader narrative of gender-based violence and the erasure of girls worldwide.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ansley Moon is the author of the poetry collections Register the Missing, (Kaya Press) and How to Bury the Dead (Black Coffee Press). They are an Asian American adoptee, poet, and educator. A graduate of the MFA program at The New School, and a recipient of fellowships and grants from Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and Kundiman, Moon's work has appeared in Agni, Hyphen Magazine, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. Moon writes the Teach This Poem series for the Academy of American Poets and is a Co-Founding member of the Starlings Collective, a BIPOC adoptee writers and artists collective. 

IN CONVERSATION WITH

Purvi Shah relishes sparkly eyeshadow, raucous laughter, and seeking justice. While serving as Executive Director at Sakhi for South Asian Women, she won a Social Service Excellence Award for her leadership fighting violence against women. Her most recent book of poetry, Miracle Marks, investigates gender violence & sacred survivals. Her prize-winning debut, Terrain Tracks, plumbs migration & loss. During the 10th anniversary of 9/11, with Kundiman, she directed Together We Are New York, a community-based poetry project amplifying Asian American voices. She creates interactive public art with Anjali Deshmukh at Circlefor, Purvi’s participatory projects, Green Card and Swan Song, explore the impact of a lack of green space on birds and people while inviting climate solutions from community members. Through anti-violence advocacy and creating art, Purvi seeds healing and transformations.

Sahar Muradi is author of the collection OCTOBERS, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is author of the chapbooks [ G A T E S ], Ask Hafiz, and A Garden Beyond My Hand, as well as co-editor, with Zohra Saed, of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature. Sahar lives in New York City, where she directs the arts education programs at City Lore and dearly believes in the bottom of the rice pot. saharmuradi.com