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of what this really is/was
I thought I would be talking about Iowa, speaking about it. But it is so huge an experience that I am swimming and swimming in it. There were so many things that happened to me there – it has changed the climate inside my head. In the people i met, the lives I glimpsed, the…
What I did in Iowa – summary report
Increasingly, I have been using social media to log my actions so I can take leave of memory and live haphazardly. Now again, instead of a nice chatty post, through my jet lag, all that I am posting here is a summary of what I did in Iowa at the International Writing Program. Some…
The Arithmetic of Breasts and other stories: reviews and bookstores
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DIGITAL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 BY PUBLISHING NEXT, GOA. The reviews for my book by book reviewers and bloggers have come in thick and fast. And it’s time to enlist those. 1. http://www.privytrifles.co.in/2015/07/book-review-arithmetic-of-breasts-and.html by Namrata (Privy Trifles) – avid blogger, author of Metro Diaries, and editor at Bloody Good Book. …
Poem publications, July-Aug 2015
My poem ‘Birth’ got published on the Poetry India website. I am honored to share space with all the poets on this page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Poetry-India/362923327179179 and here: http://www.poetryindia.com/ *** I am elated to be part of bigbride and An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry II, edited and curated by the amazing and ever-inspiring Menka Shivdasani. http://bigbridge.org/BB18/poetry/indianpoetryanthology/ROCHELLE_POTKAR.html# Hey, what are you still…
Poetry readings, June-July 2015
I was one of the featured poets at Smokehouse Deli, Bandra organized by Poetry Couture and Po Art Initiative, and the ever-energetic and enterprising, Raghavendra Madhu. Dan Husain, Kirti Kulhari, Raamesh G. Raghavan, and Raghavendra himself swept us off (our imagination’s cliff) with the depth and lilt of words. The open mic that followed had known voices:…
my poem ‘Biscooti Love’ finds its wrapping!
One of my all-time favorite poems ‘Biscooti Love’ finds place in The Freshwater Review. Books that have come all the way from Duluth, Minnesota. This poem is dedicated to the delicious brown-skinned men I’ve come across.
Haibun at A Hundred Gourds
My haibun ‘Stillborn’ and ‘Snakes and Ladders’ appears in ‘A Hundred Gourds’. Go read! http://www.ahundredgourds.com/ahg43/index_haibun.html http://www.ahundredgourds.com/ahg43/haibun11.html
Poetry at I Bar, Bandra
Reading my poems as a featured poet at I Bar, Bandra for ‘Words Tell Stories’, orchestrated by Rochelle D’silva. The evening of 9th June was high, high, high on spirit and spirits, crackling with gorgeous poetry by so many poets, I was wondering if I needed those glasses of wine. Thank you friends for being…
a Chennai feast with Poetry Couture
And those crackling Chennai days, where you speak poetry and life or life and poetry in any order. Then coffee, then humidity, new faces, new languages, but the same manner of the heart. The mud, the skin from where it all comes, to where it all returns. Colors, coziness, ambience, and laughter. The tilt of…