Sarasvathi Kannan

Sarasvathi (Sara) Kannan is a technical writer by day and creative writer by night. Her intersectional and postcolonial feminist poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction has been featured in the University of Waterloo’s HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 Anthology over three years, including three poems and one short story in the 2020 anthology, a non-fiction essay in the 2019 anthology, and a poem in the 2017 anthology. In addition to earning a BA in English Literature and Rhetoric from the University of Waterloo, she also won seven writing-related awards during her academic career. She currently lives somewhere in the second largest country in the world, where she works, writes, and consumes everything fairytale/folklore/mythology (and cake).

na tamil-a paisa matta

my tongue and teeth know the melody but my mind forgot the lyrics.so i have tamil in english like raisins in rice easily picked out and discarded for taste. still the flavour remains a vocabulary of alphasyllabary tones that i  learned to string together from a multiplication table at my ayah’s side. until public school told me i was wrong to pair o with u and exoticized my name skin hair identity. i can’t speak the language of  my childhood my ancestors but my body remembers 

Sarasvathi Kannan

na tamil-a paisa matta

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