Hari Alluri identifies as an uninvited migrant poet of Philippine and South Indian descent living, writing, and working on unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, and Ts’uubaa-asatx lands of Hul’q’umi’num-speaking peoples (Vancouver, BC). Alluri immigrated to Canada when he was twelve. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Diego State University.
Poetry
Carving Ashes
Kamploops: CiCAC/Thompson Rivers Press, 2013.
Poetry
The Flayed City
Los Angeles: Kaya Press, 2017.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
In The Flayed City, Alluri gives an intimate glimpse into the lives of city dwellers and immigrants, imagining the souls that reside in “broom-filled nights”, “skyscrapers for buoys”, and under an “aluminum rising sun”. The charged poems in The Flayed City sweep together “an archipelago song” scored by memory and landscape, history and mythology, desire and loss. …
Poetry (Chapbook)
Our Echo of Sudden Mercy
San Antonio: Next Page Press, 2022.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Our Echo of Sudden Mercy searches for the tenuous places where grief and joy entwine. At turns meditative, irreverent, and tender, the poems trace these threads through multiple forms of loss—personal and familial, cultural and planetary, quiet and violent—by encountering and moving through the everyday.
Poetry (Chapbook)
The Promise of Rust
El Paso: Mouthfeel Press, 2016.
Poetry
Tabako on the Windowsill
Kingston: Brick Books, 2025.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
To shape an entire book around portals and thresholds is to search for living myth. Hari Alluri’s poems build from comic books, television, paintings, folklore, music, and a unique imagination. Following an immigrant point of view while maintaining home in a language that engages with blood and chosen family, Alluri offers multiple lived and ancestral spaces in India, the Philippines, Nigeria, the U.S., and Canada. Guided by a burning attention – to braids of displacement, loss, and joy, to multiple beginnings – Alluri creates moments where we can expand through the personhood of perception into wider, overlapping worlds of perspective and possibility.
Anthology
Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing
Toronto: Cormorant Books, 2023.
PS8235.F55 M34 2023
Links
Hari Alluri personal website
Publisher Brick Books
Publisher Kaya Press
Publisher Mouthfeel Press
Publisher Next Page Press