© Rochelle Potkar | Powered by My poems appear in Part I of the South Asian Subcontinent Folio curated/edited by Scherezade Siobhan (thank you!) for Anomalous Press. Click to read my poems. Read the whole issue, here.
Street-of-Life musings on Kolatkar
Yay! My synopsized sharing of Arun Kolatkar’s life, musing and poetry is out! I am so glad. Thank you Kunal Jhawar (kalArt) for your generosity of vision, Brahma Media for your spectacular visual support to poetry and the past. Watch the video — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTLKOIbxcs0 So happy.
Enter the ‘The Stride of my Step’ Poetry Tournament 2019′
Welcome Mumbai Poets to ‘The Stride of my Step’ Poetry Tournament. You can enter in any of the six categories. Submission window closes: 16 August 2019. Submit to: poetrytournament2019@gmail.com
Food poems in ‘Quesadilla and Other Adventures’ anthology
Awaiting release of this anthology of food poems: ‘Quesadilla and Other Adventures’, edited by Somrita Urni Ganguly. Two of my poems ‘Bread’ and ‘Food bowl’ feature in it. Slurp!
e-She and Neha Kirpal catalogs women of Indian Poetry.
In which Neha Kirpal beautifully catalogs Women of Indian poetry. Click here to read. @e-She.
Waves English Poetry Slam! (for 17-25 y.o.)
Poets between the ages 17 to 25 are invited to Mumbai Regionals of InVerse, the Waves English Poetry Slam! Regional winners get a chance to participate in the InVerse National Finals at BITS Pilani, Goa. Google form to fill: https://forms.gle/WoGhgbZCzoJ168u4A All the best. See you at the judging rounds!
The Inglorious coins of the Counting House – finalist at the 2nd Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize
So my third book of poetry ‘The Inglorious coins of the Counting House’ is amid the five finalists of the 2nd Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. The next round to be judged by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri – that in itself is a prize! The editors impressions: ‘The hand of The Inglorious Coins of…
My readings at Rachna Books, 2016, Gangtok
Summer of 2016, Gangtok. My reading at Rachna Books.ac (I know I will be back again into the quaint hills, the breathtaking view of the Teesta river, and to Cafe Fiction, with my next book.) This event was jointly organized by Rachna Books, Caesurae.org & Jayita Sengupta. *** Jayita speaks: “Thanks Raman Shresta, for the…
The Daily Star features two of my new haibun.
The Daily Star features two of my haibun ‘Chaise Lounge’ and ‘Conch’. Click to read.
My poem in Poetry Foundation. Global Anglophone Indian issue.
Poetry Foundation. Poetry Magazine’s recent issue on Global Anglophone Indian poems. Edited by Kazim Ali and Rajiv Mohabir. (and thanking you.) “There is no one single way of being a diasporic Indian poet that marks an English that will be globally consistent. This is the beauty of such poetry, of collecting the disparate and showing connections and resonances,…