A snapshot of spoken word & artist features.
2026 & Upcoming
- Dignified Futures Conference | Artist feature
- Ikaros + Poets | Reading / feature | Featured Poet (Threaded Music & Spoken Word)
- South Asians On The Mic Vol. 5 | South Asia Institute | Featured Poet
- After Hours Press | Issue #51 Launch | Printers Row, Chicago
- Loyola Talk TV Production | Art for Communities, Chicago
- Shaam Ka Nashta | Featured Poet & Host | Nabala Cafe, Chicago
- Mothers, Daughters & the Self | Featured Poet & Moderator | Chicago
- Book Launch & Poetry Concert | The Understudy, Chicago
- That’s Poetic!! | Featured Poet | Bramble Arts Loft, Chicago
- Poetry at the Green | Featured Poet | The Green at 320, Chicago
- The Golden Hour | Featured Poet | Haibayo, Chicago
- Test Literary Series | Featured Poet | Hopleaf, Chicago
- Tuesday Funk | Featured Poet | Hopleaf, Chicago
2020–2025
- Self-portrait as a kind of devouring | Blue Hour Open Mic
- APIDA Graduation, Loyola University Chicago | Feature & Host
- Finding Refuge Fundraiser | Feature
- South Asians on the Mic | South Asia Institute | Feature
- Bashful Verses | Feature
- Chicago Mehfil | Feature
- Grandma's House | Feature
- Femme Fest | Feature
2015–2020
- Pawan Gaikwad | Elephant | Collaboration | (fav collab of that era)
- KalArt | The Box | Feature
- Motojojo | Kintsugi | Music collab
- The Cuckoo Club | Rise | Feature
- Unerase | Kintsugi | Music collab
- DelSlam | Dear Girl From Pakistan | Feature
- SXonomics | Feature
- Mumbai Poetry Slam | 1st Place
- Gaza51 | Feature
- Forbes | Press
- Dawn | Press
- Unerase Anniversary Showcase | Showcase
- BBC Partition Poetry | Feature
- Rise: Speaking Souls 1.0: Mumbai Chapter
- Fringe Festival | Edinburgh | Feature
- Loud Poets Anniversary Show | Edinburgh | Feature
Disclaimer: These are pieces from the last 10 years I still identify with, the others that may exist in some corner of the internet don't reflect me or my beliefs anymore
Image Credits: elwis musa tambuwun