“I’m gratified, after reading Pramila Venkateswaran’s Exile is Not a Foreign Word, to praise and charge her for the poet she’s been and surely will continue to be.” 
William Heyen, author of Nature: Selected & New Poems, 1970-2020 
 
“Throughout these poems of deep care and witness, Venkateswaran affirms the resiliency of community despite the boundaries that separate us.” 
Christine Kitano, author of Sky Country
 
“Pramila’s poetry invites us to listen and keep listening.” 
Seni Seneviratne, author of Wild Cinnamon and Winter Skin
 
“Pramila Venkateswaran’s emotionally charged poems are an urgent call to embrace our common humanity.”
Bessy Reyna, author of The Battlefield of Your Body
 
“Pramila Venkateswaran’s book of poems Exile is not a Foreign Word is suggestive of how ‘exile’ is not ominous, if it accommodates the idea of ‘homing’.”                               
Sukrita Paul Kumar, editor of Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English
 
“Venkateswaran’s poetry is the warning, courageous, and wise voice that rises above the chaos: we, as readers, are blessed to hear it, to be reminded not only of the experience, but also the innocence.”
Carmen Bugan, George Orwell Prize Fellow & author of Time Being 
 
“An erudite voice, Venkateswaran offers a peace manifesto.”
Shadab Zeest Hashmi, author of Ghazal Cosmopolitan