Will tell you the time later or soon…

I have to prepare for three panels and this is exciting! 🙂 Never been to Odisha. It would be my first visit.   So here are the after pictures :*  

(An x-ray/MRI like feeling with what one of my favorite poets Keki Daruwalla is reading. 🙂 Keki Daruwalla in Scroll, click here.

Hyderabad calling! a Q&A with New Indian Express, click here.  

January started on such a centered and peaceful note. And I am so happy to be in my own pace/space :* a. A visit to Tranquebar – Bungalow on the beach b. A haibun workshop at KJ Somiaya college c. A friend’s book launch (Bombay in my Beat, Mrinalini Harchandrai) d. Shooting for a Mumbai…

So are we meeting today, by any fickle chance? Reading with some gorgeous poets I admire (and so thrilled!). Also moderating a discussion with the great Gabriel Rosenstock. This evening at G5A, Black box, 5:30 pm! We talk about haiku, ego, and life, and more. I hope to read two poems and a haibun.

My Season’s gift came in the form of ‘Noise’ featured in EXPOUND, with these words from the Fiction Editor: “Congratulations on having your work chosen for EXPOUND ISSUE 12. I handpick every work of fiction we publish, for different reasons and from many entries, and yours was one of my favourites. I have read through it…

This year 2017 was riveting indeed, and I am so very grateful: Went to Scotland (Feb to May) for the Charles Wallace writer’s fellowship and in its sprawling quiet, fell in love with the lime tree, met angels and demons, understood myself, and wrote new kind of poetry. Also, made friends for life. Read new…