Happier Far: Essays UGAP 3/25. Tiny Extravaganzas 11/23 New Yorker, Kenyon, VQR, A Public Space. Poet in residence New Chamber Ballet. Bombay-NYC Books: https://www.dianemehta.net/ Editing: https://www.dianemehtaediting.com/https://bsky.app/profile/dianemehta.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dianemehta.bsky.social/post/3lydca6tzak23Conversation about poetry between the wonderful Phillis Levin and me in @commonmag.bsky.social https://www.thecommononline.org/hitting-a-wall-and-making-a-door-a-conversation-between-phillis-levin-and-diane-mehta/08 Sep 2025 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:pnxktrwvw4pnogdcuwx5pcd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lydca6tzak23https://bsky.app/profile/dianemehta.bsky.social/post/3lx3l2b6fys26Thrilled to contribute 3 translations to the anthology of writing in Crimean Tatar @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social https://kyivindependent.com/what-russia-stole-these-crimean-tatar-authors-endeavor-to-reclaim-with-literature/23 Aug 2025 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:pnxktrwvw4pnogdcuwx5pcd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx3l2b6fys26https://bsky.app/profile/dianemehta.bsky.social/post/3lprmtpbjzk24"Each dance is a small—four- or five-minute—collaboration." Clair Wills on dancing, and talking about dance. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/08/20/stepping-out/22 May 2025 17:20 +0000at://did:plc:pnxktrwvw4pnogdcuwx5pcd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lprmtpbjzk24https://bsky.app/profile/dianemehta.bsky.social/post/3lpjpdcds622mAn important book, take notice! [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 May 2025 13:43 +0000at://did:plc:pnxktrwvw4pnogdcuwx5pcd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpjpdcds622mhttps://bsky.app/profile/dianemehta.bsky.social/post/3lph7vtthic2bSharing this piece, my favorite from my essay collection, which I read at @interintellect.bsky.social last week. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 May 2025 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:pnxktrwvw4pnogdcuwx5pcd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lph7vtthic2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/dianemehta.bsky.social/post/3lp3woe4p3s2iFantastic night at a packed house thx to @peninaroth.bsky.social14 May 2025 02:18 +0000at://did:plc:pnxktrwvw4pnogdcuwx5pcd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp3woe4p3s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/dianemehta.bsky.social/post/3lnutk4tfss2dAfter playing anagrams for several hours via Game Pigeon on my phone with my son, who is in college, he wrote between classes and said, “Mom, stop.” Fun to write this for @oldstermag.bsky.social thank you @saribotton.bsky.social oldster.substack.com/p/word-games https://oldster.substack.com/p/word-games28 Apr 2025 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:pnxktrwvw4pnogdcuwx5pcd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnutk4tfss2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/dianemehta.bsky.social/post/3ln4gm547q224Proud of this essay! Thx @ditmaslit.bsky.social 8pm looking forward to reading for and with you at Urbane Arts Club in Brooklyn 4/23 at 8pm. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Apr 2025 20:12 +0000at://did:plc:pnxktrwvw4pnogdcuwx5pcd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln4gm547q224https://bsky.app/profile/dianemehta.bsky.social/post/3lk6oftoaak2kI hope you will come to one of my bookstore events! Happier Far launches in 3 days.. March 20 P&T Knitwear with Vivian Gornick ($7) April 15 Community Books w/Minna Zallman Proctor12 Mar 2025 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:pnxktrwvw4pnogdcuwx5pcd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk6oftoaak2khttps://bsky.app/profile/dianemehta.bsky.social/post/3lk22zyaj7k2lAnticipating the release of my book Happier Far next week, I wrote this piece about my mother’s letters home, and her reading, when she was in her twenties and on her first European tour. Link at JBC or my website for my book! xo https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/letters-from-my-mother10 Mar 2025 17:24 +0000at://did:plc:pnxktrwvw4pnogdcuwx5pcd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk22zyaj7k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/dianemehta.bsky.social/post/3lio2hgu3jc2oEveryone read passionately tonight. A joy! The room was rapt. Thx Kevin Young, 92nd St Y, New Yorker, Deb Garrison, Terrance Hayes, Richie Hoffman, Eliza Griswald, Mary Carr, Mary Jo Bang, and Ed Hirsch. Get the book! I love the 60s/70s. Find the Howard Hughes poem. bit.ly/4hOv7dz https://bit.ly/4hOv7dz21 Feb 2025 05:17 +0000at://did:plc:pnxktrwvw4pnogdcuwx5pcd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lio2hgu3jc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dianemehta.bsky.social/post/3lgweoxnj4k2fEager to read @tracyslater.bsky.social book and it couldn't be more timely, about a Jewish woman who demands that the US government imprison her with her Japanese-American husband and their son. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jan 2025 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:pnxktrwvw4pnogdcuwx5pcd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgweoxnj4k2f