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Between The Lines 2023 Faculty Readings, IWP/Iowa

Faculty readings for Between The Lines program, International Writing Program, Iowa’s summer program for young writers. Oh, what a joy it has been to teach them haiku, haibun, free verse (Indian English Poetry), magic realism, short fiction, flash fiction, and screenwriting.
What a pleasure to read alongside my fellow-faculty members.

Between the Lines 2023 Virtual Faculty Reading final – YouTube

Thank you, Christopher Merrill, for your continued support and encouragement to all of us writers and poets and to Romeo Oriogun and TEAM BTL for smoothly running this program. And the talented participants – where do I begin telling you about them? Let’s wait for their publications.

Teaching for IWP (International Writing Program), Iowa’s summer program: Between The Lines.

For the third consecutive year, a creative-writing teacher for IWP (International Writing Program), Iowa’s summer program: Between The Lines.
Thank you, Christopher Merrill, Peter Gerlach, Alisa Weinstein, and Romeo Oriogun the current youth program coordinator for the invitation. So excited to meet and teach the students alongside amazing faculty colleagues!

Online Poetry readings.

Dear friends, you are welcome to this online reading.

Thank you, curator, poet, haibuneer Raamesh G R for inviting me.

Kabir Deb reviews Bombay Hangovers in Saaranga magazine.

Stories never die.
Thank you Kabir Deb for your incisive and refreshing review. Thank you Saaranga Magazine for publishing it.
Gratitude.

Bombay Hangovers: The Unplugged Version of a City We Know as Bombay

Bombay Hangovers: The Unplugged Version of a City We Know as Bombay

My poem ‘Confluence’ in Greening the Earth: A Global Anthology of Poetry.

Thank you Sammohinee Ghosh for your riveting questions about ‘Greening the Earth: A Global Anthology of Poetry (ed. K. Satchidanandan & Nishi Chawla). My poem Confluence appears in the anthology.

Mid-day article.

Meet me at the Yuvadhara/Youth Literature Festival 2023, 12-13-14th April 2023.

So glad to be invited to the Yuvadhara/Youth Literature Festival 2023. Thank you, Benyamin Benny, Director of the festival, whose novels I have greatly enjoyed.

Friends, who’s in Kochi around this time?

My poems + interview in a coffee table book.

Thank you Monalisa Joshi for bringing forth this beautiful coffee table book that also holds my poems and an author interview.

A coffee table book format is the first for me!!!

Until now I have only been treasuring Mario Miranda’s coffee table book with unending visual delights and panels.

Now I must get some cuppa!!

A rose for a rose.

“You were chosen as one of the best poets translated to Macedonian language.”

Raed Al-Jishi, poet and translator from Saudi Arabia and my IWP fellow-writer’s message to me last evening made my day, month, year! If at all we live in time or timelessness.

I cherish these beautiful redeeming moments on a very long journey. Gratitude to Raed for inviting and translating my poems.

Thank you!

Isobreak v.22: Food Invokes Poetry Showcase

#ISOBREAKV22

Isobreak v.22: Food Invokes Poetry Showcase

No matter if it’s breakfast, lunch or midnight snack time wherever you are in the world join Asia Pacific Writers & Translators and the New York Writers Workshop for a celebration of five amazing female poets and two of our most elemental forms of nourishment: poetry and food.

Introduced by chef de cuisine, TEDx speaker and author of the new poetry collection Woman by the Door Kashiana Singh and featuring poet, novelist, screenwriter, Iowa’s International Writing Program alumna and acclaimed pastry chef of such delicious books as Bombay Hangovers, Four Degrees of Separation and Paper Asylum Rochelle Potkar, the savory socially conscious poet, Usawa poetry editor, Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize winner and author of five books including Twilight Language Vinita Agrawal literary gourmand, former poet laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island, co-director of Matwaala: South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival and author most recently of We are Not a Museum Pramila Venkateswaran and saveur, literary foodie and two-time winner of the Bridport Prize Elaine Chiew author of The Heartsick Diaspora and editor/compiler of Cooked Up: Food Fiction From Around the World.

MC’ed by Pushcart Prize winning poet, translator, and essayist Ravi Shankar known for his crisp delivery and perfectly poached poems. Bring your hungry minds!

Iso Break will stream live on Facebook and YouTube. Watch APWT socials a week out from the event to register #isobreak#APWT#poetry#livereadings#foodie#foodwriting#poets

Caesurae conference in Cooch Behar: highlights for me.

The Caesurae conference in Cooch Behar was insightful in many Indic and Vedic ways of Tantra, Mantra and Music. Add to it the Rajbari Palace and giggling over beer and pizza with poet-friends. I was so glad to have read excerpts from Bombay Hangovers and speak of its upcoming translation into Hindi by Divya Joshi. Thank you Jayita Sengupta and Team@Caesurae for this wonderful confluence. To read poetry on Panel 1 with Kabir Deb and Divya Joshi and conduct a haiku workshop for the very alert and talented students of the Cooch Behar College. Was glad to make acquaintances and meet old and new friends. Happy to be back home to Mumbai though – to its monsoon and mangoes.