Paramita Vadhahong Poetry Reading
Thursday, March 26, 2026 4-5 p.m.
Join us for a reading from the winner of 2025’s Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award for Poetry, Paramita (Para) Vadhahong, for their poem, “the dead sell the living.”
Para Vadhahong is a Thai US writer and zinester whose words are published in fifth wheel press, DVAN, Sine Theta, Honey Literary, and others. They are the winner of Salt Hill Journal's Arthur Flowers Flash Fiction Prize (2022) and Palette Poetry's Sappho Prize (2023). They are the Editor-in-Chief of On Prayer, a community anthology published by The Seventh Wave.
About “the dead sell the living,” the Creative Writing Advisory Board said: “It invites speculation and possibility into the poem; it invites [us] to dwell with the poem. It allows space for uncertainty, for conflicting feelings,” and “it moves deftly between the political and the personal, the gruesome and the erotic, and English and Thai. The imagery is also quite striking.”
The award-winning poem will be published in Meridians’ forthcoming spring 2026 issue (Vol. 25, No. 1).