Rochelle Potkar's Blog, page 57

Haibun workshop for beginners – at the British Council Library, Mumbai

We are conducting a haibun-writing workshop tomorrow morning at the British Council Library.

Come prepared to write neat lyrical paragraphs. [Or…err….they are called stanzas in prose-poetry, or strophes… Anyway, forget nomenclatures. Come!]

 

Workshops galore…

Workshops peh workshops, workshops peh workshops.

I have become a workshop-hippy with two new of them coming right up your… alley.

8th September 2016

The event page for this one is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/763334650474804/

10th September at the British Council Library, 10 am – 2 pm. Poster will be uploaded soon.

Haibun at Vaze’s

Getting ready for a haibun workshop at VG Vaze college, on 3rd September. Who’s coming for this one?

Details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/691347417671250/

Between the long and short of things: longlists/shortlists

After very long I feel like that happy fisherwoman who has a big catch in her net – of all wriggling live pieces and thier potentials.

My short story Symbols of a life  gets longlisted at the Hourglass Literary Magazine Story award, 2016 & Shortlisted at the Break water Fiction contest 2016.

Airport diaries is shortlisted at the Hourglass Literary Magazine poetry award, 2016

Gathering is longlisted at the Hourglass Literary Magazine poetry award, 2016

Marital Triptych is longlisted at the Hourglass Literary Magazine poetry award, 2016

Wholesale!

 

 

Reading for Radio City Freedom at Monkey bar, Bandra

Very excited that I will be reading some new work here.

21st August, 1:30 pm, Monkey Bar, Bandra for Radio City Freedom

For more on the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1241886579169206/

Poetry workshop for Children at the British Council Library

Poetry workshop for Children with Maya Sharma Sriram.

Who’s coming for this one?

You have to be between 10-14 years (sorry! :))

13th August, 2016, 10 am – 12:30 pm.

British Council Library, Mumbai

Haibun on the radio, in the rain

My haibun ‘Retake 1’ and ‘Retake 2’ find their voice here. Check it out. This weekend (29th-30th July, 4 pm).

Radio City Freedom. Tune in, at: http://bit.ly/rcfreedom

Poetry workshop at VG Vaze College, Mulund (August 2016)

I will be conducting a poetry workshop at VG Vaze College, Mulund on 27th August, 10 am to 2 pm. The forms taught in this workshop: free verse, haiku, haibun.

For updates: https://www.facebook.com/ELA-584188865074856/

 

It’s always electrifying meeting students. The students of VG Vaze college are bright and full of creative energy.

My day is already made!

 

Extra epiphanies (my LOLs are words)

If there is a circus, there will have to be clowns.

If there are clowns, there will sooner or later be circuses.

Nothing unusual.

Nothing surprising.

 

If there is boredom in the non-clowns, there will have to be circuses and clowns.

If there is ignorance  in the non-clowns, there will have to be circuses and clowns.

Nothing unusual.

Nothing surprising.

 

Every non-clown is a clown somewhere else.

But once a clown always a clown.

 

(c) Rochelle Potkar

ha ha ha

A little anthology haiku, senryu, haibun, renku, tanka and renbun

And here is a small book with a LOT to read over any weekend.

This book is from and by the INhaiku group Mumbai.

the taste of sea breeze: An anthology of haiku, senryu, haibun, renku, tanka and renbun

https://www.amazon.in/taste-sea-breeze-anthology-senryu-ebook/dp/B01IHJUR3A