Jagjeet Sharma - Poetry Book Signing: Measure of a Wo/Man
12:00 PM on Saturday Jul. 6th
Chapters-Indigo, 2401 City Park Drive, Gloucester
12:00 PM on Saturday Jul. 6th
Chapters-Indigo, 2401 City Park Drive, Gloucester
Join nominee for the Ottawa Awards' 2024 Best Author, Jagjeet Sharma, and pick up your signed edition of Measure of a Wo/Man.
What is the measure of a woman? She is immeasurable. She is strong. She is a double force to reckon with. Jagjeet Sharma’s “journalistic poetry” continues in this new poetry collection, Measure of a Wo/man.
Poems in this collection are about the Wo/man. The Hindu God Shiva’s ardhanishvara, a concept that she is both half man and half woman. Lord Shiva, one of the Hindu gods is referred to as the ultimate man, but one form of Shiva is also a fully developed woman. The masculine and the feminine are equally divided within yourself, within oneself. It is about the struggles and challenges a Wo/man faces day in and day out in any part of the world.
Jagjeet Sharma is a freelance journalist, poet and author. She hosts a weekly radio show in Ottawa along with her team of dedicated volunteers on CKCU 93.1 FM. (Asian Sounds - Wednesdays 6pm)
Jagjeet is a founding member of the Ottawa Ethnic Media Forum. She has won the CEMA Award for Journalistic Excellence in the Print Category in 2021, and the CEMA Award for Innovation, Journalistic Excellence in 2023.
What is the measure of a woman? She is immeasurable. She is strong. She is a double force to reckon with. Jagjeet Sharma’s “journalistic poetry” continues in this new poetry collection, Measure of a Wo/man.
Poems in this collection are about the Wo/man. The Hindu God Shiva’s ardhanishvara, a concept that she is both half man and half woman. Lord Shiva, one of the Hindu gods is referred to as the ultimate man, but one form of Shiva is also a fully developed woman. The masculine and the feminine are equally divided within yourself, within oneself. It is about the struggles and challenges a Wo/man faces day in and day out in any part of the world.
Jagjeet Sharma is a freelance journalist, poet and author. She hosts a weekly radio show in Ottawa along with her team of dedicated volunteers on CKCU 93.1 FM. (Asian Sounds - Wednesdays 6pm)
Jagjeet is a founding member of the Ottawa Ethnic Media Forum. She has won the CEMA Award for Journalistic Excellence in the Print Category in 2021, and the CEMA Award for Innovation, Journalistic Excellence in 2023.