Rochelle Potkar's Blog, page 6

Meet me @BengaluruPoetry Festival 2024.

Friends in Bengaluru, hope to see you in August @BengaluruPoetry Festival.

On 3 August 3 pm -5 pm at the (prose poetry) Haibun-writing workshop. Registered yet? Follow the link in the bio linktree.

4 August 1:45 PM – 2:30 PM, Rock Paper Scissors with Gautam Vegda, Maaz Bin Bilal, and Mukul Kumar sharing our poems.
You can check the whole schedule here – https://www.bengalurupoetryfestival.org/

My short plays @Short+Sweet South India 2024 Theatre Festival.

I had no clue I was a playwright – not even by an inch, atom, or iota. But the short film scripts I adapted to 10-minute plays (Fishbowl and Catharsis) have been shortlisted at the Short+Sweet South India 2024 Theatre Festival for directors to direct. 18 such 10-minute selected plays will be showcased this September at Prakriti Foundation.
Dear friends in Chennai, I hope to see you there!
Thank you, Ranvir Shah (Festival Producer), Rajiv Rajendran (Festival Mentor), Meera Krishnan (Festival Director), and Team S+S South India 2024.

My new poems in The Violet Sun anthology.

Friends in Kolkata,

If you are free this 25 July 2024 do partake in the book launch of The Violet Sun Anthology, edited by Inam Hussaid Begg Mullick. Two of my poems appear too.

[It’s been a while since my poems appeared in a new anthology. a. I have stopped submitting b. I have nothing new to submit.]

Writing haibun @BengaluruPoetryFestival 2024

Writing Haibun (Prose Poetry)
Learn the art of Haibun
Let’s capture epiphanies but with lyricism. In Bengaluru. At the Bengaluru Poetry Festival 2024. In August. Am I seeing you then?

Limited slots. You can book a place here.

A review by Satbir Chadha of Coins in Rivers.

Thank you Satbir Chadha for deeply engaging with ‘Coins in Rivers’.

The full review is here.

My poem ‘Rage’ translated to French.

Glad to see my poem ‘Rage’ part of my first poetry collection ‘Four Degrees of Separation’ appear in French in Apulée magazine, translated by the evocative writer Cécile Oumhani.

For those who can read French, here are photos of Apulée and the poem.

“So happy to see your powerful and thought-provoking poem in French!”

Thank you, Cécile!

Coins in Rivers; Joao Roque Literary Journal 2024

“Two powerhouse writers sat down at Dogears’ Bookstore in Margao on 7 June, 2024, to talk about poetry.”

I have had the most memorable association with the Joao Roque Literary Journal when I was its Poetry Editor, and I am so glad to see its next releases.
This issue also features Heta Pandit, the consummate conservationist and co-founder of the Goa Heritage Action group’s thoughts and views on poems from Coins in Rivers.

Thank you, Selma Carvalho (author of Sisterhood of Swans, Notes on a Marriage) for your literary verve as an author, poet, and constant support in the role of an editor.

Friends, you may read it here.

Book of the Month: Coins in Rivers/The Saligão Balcão.

Heta Pandit is a mesmerizing person. Fun and easy-going. She obviously doesn’t carry the burden of the success of the ten books she has written, aimed at bringing to light the art, culture, and history of Goa.

Living in Goa for 26 years, she co-founded Goa Heritage Action Group dedicated to the advocacy of preservation, conservation, and restoration of Goa’s natural, built, and cultural heritage.

Her lovely newsletter The Saligão Balcão, Edition Twenty Seven mentions Coins in Rivers as the Book of the Month. She was gracious enough to be in conversation with me over my book launch at The Dogears Bookshop earlier this June.

You can read/subscribe to the newsletter here.

An interview: Scroll/Coins in Rivers

Thank you Jayanth Kodkani for interviewing me and to Arunava Sinha at Scroll.in for featuring this.

‘No poem or story can exist without its spine of the truths of the world’: Poet Rochelle Potkar

Click to read.

Me@Mysuru Literature Festival 2024.

Friends in Mysuru,

Let’s meet and celebrate the Word at the Mysuru Literature Festival 2024. I will be in Mysuru on 6th July on a poetry panel with remarkable poets: Rugmani Prabhakar, Sonya Nair, Dr. Sonali Pattnaik, and Kavita Ratna.

I will also be conducting a poetry workshop.

Thank you Team Mysuru Literature Festival for inviting us.

Thank you Rugmani Prabhakar for choreographing this.