Rochelle Potkar's Blog, page 34
August 28, 2019
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan’s haibun (Sept issue, JRLJ 2019)
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan’s haibun are a delight. His karumi can be slapstick, black comedy, satire, or plain refrain.
His work is one of my favorite inclusions at haibun workshops!
Joao-Roque Literary Journal, Sept 2019 issue.
Click to read.
August 26, 2019
Joao Roque Literary Journal, September Issue, 2019 (Sanket Mhatre’s haibun)
One: is to discover your own story ideas, and themes of obsessions.
Another is to discover a friend who wrote (soulfully) in Marathi also writing in English. This discovery — a stunning phenomena.
Please welcome Sanket Mhatre – enfant terrible – forked linguistic-tongued, who has begun scribbling in English.
Many more poems from his pen to come, but his first penning caught here on the Joao Roque Literary Journal, September Issue, 2019.
August 19, 2019
Monopoly in Mumbai
I wonder if some places/venues in Bombay have been monopolized.
No matter how much you send an application for a book launch event/workshop, they turn a deaf ear. Then suddenly there are other’s who are launching their books/exposing their eloquence. Same set of names. Regurgitated (best-friend) list.
Lovely monopoly, but guys, let the others breathe. Your poetry is not the only thing happening on earth. Other poets exist!!
How long will you play the victimhood card of ‘not getting as much attention as due or deserved’? You have taken over the best spaces on an annual basis, by crying & crying. It’s comical.
Stop crying!!!
p.s. I have been trying to place a friend’s book launch for 6 months now in this dodgy atmosphere.
And those who can’t read text, a graphic.
Assured & unabated: poster
THE INGLORIOUS COINS OF THE COUNTING HOUSE by Rochelle Potkar, GB Poetry Book Prize Finalist | Assured & unabated
August 13, 2019
My poems appear in Anomalous Press
My poems appear in Part I of the South Asian Subcontinent Folio curated/edited by Scherezade Siobhan (thank you!) for Anomalous Press.
Read the whole issue, here.
August 9, 2019
Street-of-Life musings on Kolatkar
Yay! My synopsized sharing of Arun Kolatkar’s life, musing and poetry is out! I am so glad.
Thank you Kunal Jhawar (kalArt) for your generosity of vision, Brahma Media for your spectacular visual support to poetry and the past.
Watch the video —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTLKOIbxcs0
So happy.
August 5, 2019
Enter the ‘The Stride of my Step’ Poetry Tournament 2019′
Welcome Mumbai Poets to ‘The Stride of my Step’ Poetry Tournament.
You can enter in any of the six categories.
Submission window closes: 16 August 2019.
Submit to: poetrytournament2019@gmail.com
Enter the ‘The Stride of my Step’ Poetry Tournament 2019′
Mumbai poets, attention! Coming your way a slew of contests. Dosti House – Your American Space brings to you ‘The Stride of my Step’ Poetry Tournament. You can enter in any of the six categories. All the best!
Please send your entries to poetrytournament2019@gmail.com
July 30, 2019
Food poems in ‘Quesadilla and Other Adventures’ anthology
Awaiting release of this anthology of food poems: ‘Quesadilla and Other Adventures’, edited by Somrita Urni Ganguly. Two of my poems ‘Bread’ and ‘Food bowl’ feature in it.
Slurp!
