Some things that I need to cherish and hold dear.

Dear Friends, Do join us on Zoom on December 1 and December 6, 2023, 11 am EST. Hosted by Dr Nishi Chawla – Poetry Readings around “Greening the Earth” (A Penguin Random House Publication, edited by K. Satchidanandan, Nishi Chawla). This makes it 9:30 pm IST. Where poetry anthologies (unless of a blind jury) have…

So the Goa NFDC Film Bazaar was an overwhelming maiden experience with 2 of my projects selected in the Top 30 of the Book-to-Box Office vertical (BTBO). I remember going to HAF Hong Kong after my 2018 NFDC Screenwriter’s Lab, so I had missed Goa then. I met too many interesting new people and old…

Dear writers in Mumbai, see you on Saturday 4th November at Avid Learning @AvidLearning for an intriguing whole-day workshop on ‘Writing with AI’ by the co-founder of The Himalayan Writing Retreat – Chetan Mahajan (@chetanauthor), (@HimalayanWrite). [I too will give a small guest talk on AI + poetry.] Register soon. Limited seats. https://insider.in/writing-in-the-age-of-ai-where-text-meets-tech-nov4-2023/event

Basudhara Roy Chatterjee’s comprehensive and poignant review in Borderless Journal of ‘Greening the Earth: A Global Anthology of Poetry’ (ed.: K. Satchidanandan and Nishi Chawla), published by Penguin Random House also makes mention of my poem ‘Confluence’ that she reads so resonantly. “Rochelle Potkar’s ‘Confluence’ raises concern regarding the legal personhood and rights of our…

En voyage to the Festival of Libraries | Ministry of Culture | Delhi 4-7 Aug & to speak on Day 2 on the importance of residencies & retreats for authors, translators, poets with Saudamini Deo, Chetan Mahajan, Shabnam Samuel, Victoria Dobritz, &Tara Khandelwal. #WritingCommunity

Faculty readings for Between The Lines program, International Writing Program, Iowa’s summer program for young writers. Oh, what a joy it has been to teach them haiku, haibun, free verse (Indian English Poetry), magic realism, short fiction, flash fiction, and screenwriting.What a pleasure to read alongside my fellow-faculty members. Between the Lines 2023 Virtual Faculty…

For the third consecutive year, a creative-writing teacher for IWP (International Writing Program), Iowa’s summer program: Between The Lines.Thank you, Christopher Merrill, Peter Gerlach, Alisa Weinstein, and Romeo Oriogun the current youth program coordinator for the invitation. So excited to meet and teach the students alongside amazing faculty colleagues!

Dear friends, you are welcome to this online reading. Thank you, curator, poet, haibuneer Raamesh G R for inviting me.

Stories never die.Thank you Kabir Deb for your incisive and refreshing review. Thank you Saaranga Magazine for publishing it.Gratitude. Bombay Hangovers: The Unplugged Version of a City We Know as Bombay