Rochelle Potkar's Blog, page 35
July 17, 2019
Waves English Poetry Slam! (for 17-25 y.o.)
Poets between the ages 17 to 25 are invited to Mumbai Regionals of InVerse, the Waves English Poetry Slam! Regional winners get a chance to participate in the InVerse National Finals at BITS Pilani, Goa.
Google form to fill: https://forms.gle/WoGhgbZCzoJ168u4A
All the best.
See you at the judging rounds!
July 15, 2019
The Inglorious coins of the Counting House – finalist at the 2nd Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize
So my third book of poetry ‘The Inglorious coins of the Counting House’ is amid the five finalists of the 2nd Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. The next round to be judged by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri – that in itself is a prize!
The editors impressions: ‘The hand of The Inglorious Coins of the Counting House, both assured and assuring, draws layered maps of humanity, then and now.’
More in the press release.
https://mailchi.mp/singaporeunbound/finalists-2nd-gaudy-boy-poetry-book-prize
July 13, 2019
My readings at Rachna Books, 2016, Gangtok
Summer of 2016, Gangtok. My reading at Rachna Books.ac
(I know I will be back again into the quaint hills, the breathtaking view of the Teesta river, and to Cafe Fiction, with my next book.)
This event was jointly organized by Rachna Books, Caesurae.org & Jayita Sengupta.
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Jayita speaks: “Thanks Raman Shresta, for the video. We had made some lovely memories that summer of 2016, in Gangtok with Rochelle Potkar coming over to Sikkim, staying with me and my students in my home there and conducting a lovely workshop on haiku and haibun and reading her works at Rachna. Students had presented a musical version of Meghbalika with Nandakishore Das on the violin, Snehshree singing, Gaurav on his guitar, who’d come from Mirik at once if it had to do something related to music and not his thesis! Dear Nikita with her reading of the English translation of Joy Goswami’s poem was too good! Creative moments in Gangtok will always be cherished Raman. Rachna memories. Now we are all in different places, hope we could be together again someday sometime at Rachna again.”
July 12, 2019
July 2, 2019
My poem in Poetry Foundation. Global Anglophone Indian issue.
Poetry Foundation. Poetry Magazine’s recent issue on Global Anglophone Indian poems.
Edited by Kazim Ali and Rajiv Mohabir. (and thanking you.)
“There is no one single way of being a diasporic Indian poet that marks an English that will be globally consistent. This is the beauty of such poetry, of collecting the disparate and showing connections and resonances, dissonances, and disconnections.”
Enjoy the issue –
Click to read.
Takes me back into nostalgia – 2015, IWP’s tour to Poetry Foundation, Chicago.
July 1, 2019
The mirage-like reckoning…
Now this is the headline we have waited for. A reward.
‘Indian poetry in English is no longer unrelatable’
Thank you, Sahitya Akademi, Chandigarh.
Click to read:
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
June 30, 2019
Readings at Prarie Lights, Iowa, 10th July 2019 evening
You are invited to this reading at Prairie Lights, Iowa on 10th July 2019.
7 – 8 pm
June 17, 2019
Readings on 27th June at Sahitya Akademi, Delhi
Welcoming you, if you are in Delhi.
June 15, 2019
Welcoming you…
Looking forward to meet you at some longitude and latitude in June and July 2019.
June 1, 2019
A poetry workshop @Kunzum Travel Cafe, Hauz Khas, 28th June
And for those who love the evening.
A poetry workshop at Kunzum Travel Cafe, Hauz Khas, on 28th June, 5-7 pm.
Book your place here:
https://www.instamojo.com/kunzum/haibun-poetry-workshop-by-rochelle-potkar/
