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This event honors Yamini Pathak, a poet and long-time resident of West Windsor, who is a 2025 recipient of a prestigious Individual Artist Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts.
Yamini Pathak is an Indian born poet whose poems engage with themes of migration, loss, motherhood, and open the doors to food, landscapes, and histories of the places she calls home. She is also a translator of Hindi poetry.
Join us for an afternoon of poetry as Yamini reads from her forthcoming book Her Mouth A Palace of Lamps (Milk & Cake Press) and discusses them with editor and poet, Cathy Kreyche. Audience Q&A will also be welcome.
A short reception will follow the program. Refreshments will be provided by Star Bazaar in Lawrenceville.
Yamini Pathak's poetry collection Her Mouth A Palace of Lamps (Milk & Cake Press) is forthcoming in October 2025. She is the author of poetry chapbooks, Atlas of Lost Places (Milk & Cake Press) and Breath Fire Water Song (Ghost City Press). Yamini serves as editor of Inch micro chapbooks published by Bull City Press. She is a teaching artist at the West Windsor Arts Center and has worked with the Geraldine Dodge Foundation as a Poet in Schools. Yamini has an MFA in Poetry from Antioch University, LA and is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship by the NJ State Council on the Arts. Her work has been nominated for Best New Poets and has been a finalist for Frontier Poetry’s Global Poetry Prize (South Asia).
Cathy Kreyche is a writer and editor from Hopewell Township who is active in local New Jersey writing and book groups. She has studied poetry with BJ Ward, Jean Hollander, and Anna Evans. A freelance editor and writer, she cultivates creative partnership with authors to use the writing process as journey of self-discovery. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Rutgers University Writers Conference, provides literary critiques for the annual Mercer County Teen Arts Festival, and heads Adult Programming for the Hopewell Public Library.
This program is made possible through the support of a generous anonymous poet sponsor.
Established in 2010, West Windsor Arts is known for its exceptional education, innovative arts exhibitions and community service. West Windsor Arts cultivates the artist within us all, while inspiring a creative community that is engaged, inclusive and equitable.
