© Rochelle Potkar | Powered by If in Pune, you are excitedly invited to a sketching by three poets: Siddharth Dasgupta, Sarabjeet Garcha, Rochelle Potkar, and their personal geographies, echoing landscapes through poetry. Readings. Conversation. Chai. 25 August, 5 pm. Monalisa Kalagram, Koregaon Park, Pune. (Creative courtesy: Siddharth Dasgupta) RSVP on the event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/655537794818247/
Book Launches in Mumbai, 24th Aug, Kitab Khana – You are invited!
Inviting all friends in Mumbai to the book launches of ‘Paper Asylum‘ and ‘A Clock in the Far Past‘ at Kitab Khana, 24th August 2018, 6 pm. Sarabjeet Garcha and I will be in conversation with the awe-inspiring Menka Shivdasani. Please RSVP here at the Facebook event page.
The inaugural issue of the Usawa Literary Review carries my interview.
The inaugural issue of the Usawa Literary Review is here, edited by Lavanya Shanbhogue Arvind and Smita Sahay. Read it. Enjoy he whole issue here!
Paper Asylum reviewed in Muse India by Akila G.
Where poet Akila G. reviews Paper Asylum in Muse India: “The author’s vivid images pull us from deep within of our own madcap days, nights and lull noon where we aren’t mere spectators of time but find a figment of time in ourselves locked in the narrow corridors of livelihood and beliefs. Be it Aparanta,…
Poetry at Cuckoo club, Bandra
I will be reading some of my new poetry at the Cuckoo Club, Bandra tomorrow evening, 26th July 2018. Meet me! I am thinking of reading, ‘in that land under the sun’, ‘Amber’, ‘Key holes’ (not sure the Bandra crowd has heard it) or I will pick two other poems instead of ‘Key holes’. Decisions….
Haibun at the Hyderabad Huddle July 2018
Happy to be part of the Hyderabad Huddle on 29th July 2018. Excited to be in the midst of SO many friends from Hyderabad! There is lot more planned for this day. For more details follow the FB page: https://www.facebook.com/events/647598648949923/654693938240394
Editing the Collected Works of Joseph Furtado
One of the few projects as an Editor that I have been so proud to associate with is the collected works of Joseph Furtado. The process probably turned my own page on understanding a long-ago Goa. This book is soon to hit the stands by Cinnamon Teal Design and Publishing. * This book is an…
Reading my poems at The Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai (video form)
That lovely festival with Crossover Poems, The Poetry Club (TPC), Women Empowered-India (WE), at The Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai that brings in gushes of memory. Three of my poems here for you: Ice Factory, Confluence, To Daraza.
Poetry by the Danube, Budapest, Hungary (18th-23rd July 2018).
So excited to be travelling soon to Hungary for the Indian-Hungarian Translation Workshop, Budapest (18th to 23rd July 2018), and to see my poems in Hungarian! This poetry event is part of the annual writer’s camp organized by FISZ -Fiatal Írók Szövetsége. From the monsoon-hood of Mumbai, let’s see what climes this city by the…
Talking about the Bengaluru Poetry Festival (video form)
Talking about the Bengaluru Poetry Festival, here’s a small conversation with Samantak Bhadra at Atta Galatta bookstore. https://www.facebook.com/BengaluruPoetryFestival/videos/1413777935432335/