Basudhara Roy

Basudhara Roy teaches English at Karim City College and is the author of four collections of poems, the latest being A Blur of a Woman (Red River, 2024). Drawn to themes of gender, ecology, and mythology, she writes, edits, reviews, and sporadically curates and translates poetry from Jamshedpur, India.

Mother / India

you are not born a motheryou become oneit begins with a manwho wantsto make you morethan womanless than mangive you a jobhe cannot do himselfknowingwhile you are at ithe will doall that you are as good atin his own muscular way so