Brooklyn Optimist interviewed poet Lynn Chandhok, award-winning author of The View from Zero Bridge, on video. Here’s an excerpt from his blog. Go there to see the video.

When the New York Observer weighed in with its top 100 Brooklyn writers
a few weeks ago, one of its most glaring omissions was Park Slope poet
Lynn Aarti Chandhok. Chandhok is not just one of my favorite Brooklyn
poets, she ranks among the most gifted poets of contemporary American
literature.

Perhaps it is presumptuous to make such a grandiose appraisal of a poet’s work with only one book of verse under her belt, The View From Zero Bridge (Anhinga Press),
but as is the case with my beloved Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska,
who has only 250 or so published poems to her credit, it is quality
that defines a writer’s opus, not quantity.