Hi Friends, if you can read French this is all yours! Poet and novelist, Cécile Oumhani interviews me for Trait-d’Union Magazine. http://www.traitdunionmagazine.com/interview-avec-rochelle-potkar/ Thank you, Adel Hakim – Fondateur et Directeur Général, Trait-d’Union Magazine.

For those who missed my reading of an excerpt of ‘Fabric’ from Bombay Hangovers at JLF 2021 Writer’s Shorts can now view a replay on Saturday, 16th October at JLF Houston 11:45 AM – 12:00 NOON CDT / 10: 15 PM – 10:30 PM IST. Register for JLF Houston –https://jlflitfest.org/houston/registration

You might not know me and that is better. I am an introvert who can celebrate the company of but a few. Even two in a room gives me a feeling the room is full of a 100. (So exclusions or cancel cultures would/could never work on me in theory or practice. I wouldn’t even…

A story of mine appears in ‘Room No. 312 and Other Stories’ by Walking BookFairs.Gratitude Satabdi Mishra and Akshaya Ravtaray. Copies of this book are available at bookstores ONLY in India. They are not selling on Amazon in support of local, independent bookstores. You can order a copy by writing in to: walkingbookfairs@gmail.com. (For those…

Glad to see my poem ‘Surrender’ in the Tampa Review, ed: Paul T. Corrigan, University of Tampa Press. Click to read.

The review of Bombay Hangovers by the astute and talented Kinshuk Gupta in the Asian Age is on the platter today. “For any reader who has heard of the city only through the narration, Potkar’s book with its exquisite use of catalogue, language that soothes and stabs, and sharp observations, is a sumptuous read.” Hope…

You are invited to the launch of Divya Joshi’s book of poetry Dance of Life. I will be in conversation with her, embedded into the whole programme – schedule, attached. Powered by the Ecosophical Foundation for the Study of Literature and Environment (EFSLE). August 29, 2021 5 pm.Link to join event, click here. Book link.

Catch us discussing haikai, poetry, creative writing and healing for these times at the Women Writers Fest, SheThePeople with Archana Pai Kulkarni, Kala Ramesh and Shobhana Kumar on 28th August, 1 pm.

On the Hindustan Times (HT) picks.Click to read.

The anthology ‘Witness: The Red River Book of Poetry of Dissent’ is out! Edited by Nabina Das and published by Red River, it possesses the work of 250 poets. [My poem ‘Mask’ features in it.] Says critic Nirupama Dutt, “Words reach out with a rare rage, urgency, indignation, and angst as poets turn witness to…