© Rochelle Potkar | Powered by The day is clean like sunshine. I woke up with a few bad dreams; I refuse to call them nightmares. The kid had bad dreams too. Of being stuck in an elevator for 24 hours, of forgetting a window isn’t screened and jumping into it, of fire starting on our third floor. The…
Posts from: August 2015
Poem publications, July-Aug 2015
My poem ‘Birth’ got published on the Poetry India website. I am honored to share space with all the poets on this page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Poetry-India/362923327179179 and here: http://www.poetryindia.com/ *** I am elated to be part of bigbride and An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry II, edited and curated by the amazing and ever-inspiring Menka Shivdasani. http://bigbridge.org/BB18/poetry/indianpoetryanthology/ROCHELLE_POTKAR.html# Hey, what are you still…
Poetry readings, June-July 2015
I was one of the featured poets at Smokehouse Deli, Bandra organized by Poetry Couture and Po Art Initiative, and the ever-energetic and enterprising, Raghavendra Madhu. Dan Husain, Kirti Kulhari, Raamesh G. Raghavan, and Raghavendra himself swept us off (our imagination’s cliff) with the depth and lilt of words. The open mic that followed had known voices:…
Drizzle city to deluge city, June 2015
The last I was in Hyderabad in June 2015, I ‘blinged’, with rain on my ear lobes and puddles percolating at my neck. But it was intentional. It represented the deluges of my city, Mumbai. I met Nivedita’s sweet mother, Teddy – professionally called: Subhashini and Dr. Neal Hall, and spent moments of preamble with the stunning yet down-to-earth K…