Ask the Author: Pooja Nansi
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Pooja Nansi
I take a shower, I listen to music, I live the things I might one day write about.
Pooja Nansi
Being able to tell your version of any story.
Pooja Nansi
Read and then read some more, be kind to yourself, live life out loud, ask yourself what are the stories only you can tell.
Pooja Nansi
I think it is a long form essay about Hip Hop clubs in Singapore in the 90s and early two thousands, but it might turn out to be something else. One never knows till it is done.
Pooja Nansi
I read a lot of other writing. I listen to songs, I ask questions, I watch people while I am eating at restaurants and cafes and while I am waiting for the bus.
Pooja Nansi
"Love is an Empty Barstool" was inspired by a year in which I was close to turning 30 and I had come out of some unhealthy relationships and was wondering what it meant to love and to lose. The image of the empty barstool implies to me that maybe you are drinking alone because someone left, or maybe someone exciting is going to have a seat next to you. So this collection of poems is also a little bit of a blues songbook to singlehood
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