Andrea Quaid

Andrea Quaid is a writer and critic. She co-directs the Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and Reading/Lecture series at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is a founding editor of the new UCSC Poetry and Politics imprint. She is currently a faculty member in Bard’s Language & Thinking Program. Recent critical and creative publications include the American Book Review, aPlod, BOMBlog, Jacket2, and Lana Turner.

Articles

  • After Separation: The Poetry of India’s Partition

    After Separation: The Poetry of India’s Partition

    BHANU KAPIL’S SCHIZOPHRENE BEGINS, “I threw the book into the dark garden. The account begun mid-ocean, in a storm.” What follows is the story of “what happened in a particular country on a particular day”: August 14, 1947, the date ...