Jhani F K Randhawa, unceded Kumeyaay land, San Diego County, 2021.
[Image description: Photo of gender non-binary person with light brown skin, black hair pulled into a top-knot, wearing glasses, wearing a white sleeveless top, khaki shorts, long green socks, and blue sneakers. Person is sitting on a concrete platform in a desert landscape, holding one knee and looking into the distance.]
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Jhani/J F K Randhawa (they/them) is a Kenyan-Punjabi/Anglo-American counterdisciplinary maker, collaborator, and editor. Their work is interested in precarity, queer ecology, diaspora and migration, spiritual activism, and fugue states. Jhani is the recipient of a Yasmin Fellowship from Millay Arts, and was named a 2021 finalist for the PEN American Emerging Voices Fellowship. Jhani has taken residence and refuge at the Wormfarm Institute, Upaya Zen Center, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, and Writers House Pittsburgh. Their first full-length poetry collection TIME REGIME was selected by Dr. Dorothy Wang (Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry, Stanford University Press) as the 2021 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize winner. Jhani also corresponds with ghat ghat, an ongoing performative embodiment navigating time, its dismantling, and the feral. Presently, they co-head the experimental arts journal rivulet with Teo Rivera-Dundas.
Books
TIME REGIME (Gaudy Boy, April 2022)
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Upcoming Events
March 16, 2023: In Conversation with Jagdeep Raina at Todd Madigan Gallery (CSU Bakersfield)
March 30, 2023: Thinking Its Presence Conference Panel
Past Events
November 12, 2022: Indo-American Arts Council Literary Festival Panel
October 7, 2022: 5th Annual Singapore Literature Festival Panel
September 14, 2022: Yu & Me Books
July 7, 2022: SubText Books
June 21, 2022: Skylight Books
June 3, 2022: Riffraff Bookstore & Bar
June 2, 2022: Grolier Poetry Book Shop
May 14, 2022: ONE Archives at USC
May 10, 2022: Williams College
April 26, 2022: UCLA Asian American Studies Classroom Visit
April 5, 2022: KGB Bar, Book Launch
Select Projects/Publication
Poetry Project
ASAP/J Soap Ear
Figure 1 O BOD
7x7 TAGVVERK
bæst La Vague
Tupelo Quarterly Review
Sarah Lawrence College 2022 Alumni Exhibition
Love Me | Loves Me Not Zine
DoubleBlind Magazine (Issue 4)
little death #11: Neo-Benshi Experiments
Curation/Collaboration/Coordination
“exquisite braid: quarantine seeds,” rivulet, March 2021.
WomenRising! New Visions for a Post-Patriarchal World, California Institute of Integral Studies, October 2018.
“Satellite/artefact: on conversation in contemporary poetics,” Sarah Lawrence College, April 2013.
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