Akhil Katyal read his poems on campus. Many of the poems he read were written about the cities that he has recently been to since he has been traveling reading his poems. His poems were mainly about places and current issues. The first one he read was about the recent election of Donald Trump. He discussed some of his issues and concerns due to the increase in discrimination of other races and of the LGBT community after the election. He had another poem about Bombay and he discussed a train station there. I really enjoyed his poems and liked how current they were and how some of them talked about current issues. It made them easier to understand and relate to because I knew about the issues in which he discussed from hearing about them all recently.

            After Katyal read his poems the audience had the opportunity to ask him questions. I thought it was interesting that he speaks 4 languages. He writes poems in not only English, but in Hindi. He sometimes even translates his poems between languages and can read them to many different audiences. He also talked about how he has noticed that the poems he writes in English tend to be more melancholy while he feels he is more humorous when he writes in Hindi. Overall, it was very interesting to listen to his poems and learn about the author. The poetry meetings are definitely more interesting than I had originally anticipated since I am not usually interested in poetry. I would recommend going to one and trying it out even if you think you would not be very interested in it.