What does it mean to read a poem that has never been read before because it has never been completed? What does it mean to write a poem in order not to complete it, only to write it? Through readings of the author’s poetry and experimental poem-book, this talk explores the generative possibilities of the incomplete, examining the significance of unfinished and fragmented pieces as auto/biographical information.

Aditi Nagrath completed her Master’s in Clinical Psychology in 2018, pursuing a training in expressive arts therapy and working to build access to arts in education. Currently living in New Delhi, she works as an education counsellor and uses her free time to teach and write poetry. Her work has appeared in Noble/Gas Qtrly, Monstering Mag, among others. Her first collection of poetry, Beyond Survival, was published in 2015 through Condensed Matter Bindery & Press.