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February 12, 2015
Reading my poems at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai today
I too will be reading poetry at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival on Friday, 13th February 2015 at the David Sassoon Library Garden, between 6:30 pm to 7:45 pm.
This panel would be moderated by Mustansir Dalvi.
This is the list of poets reading for Hope Street Poets.
Who’s coming to luxuriate in this poetry-filled evening?
You?
PANEL I (5 pm to 6:15 pm) | Session Moderator — Ranjit Hoskote
Adil Jussawalla
Aditi Rao
Sudeep Sen
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
Desmond Kharmawphlang
Anjali Purohit
PANEL II (6:30 pm to 7:45 pm) | Session Moderator — Mustansir Dalvi
Keki Daruwalla
Jennifer Robertson
Arun Sagar
Rochelle Potkar
Tsippy Levine Byron
Randhir Khare
PANEL III (8 pm to 9:15 pm) | Session Moderator — Sampurna Chattarji
E.V Ramakrishnan
Bina Sarkar Ellias
Mustansir Dalvi
Anupama Raju
Anand Thakore
Mani Rao
February 5, 2015
Celebration of rejections
These days the rejections I get are more cause for celebration than acceptances. These rejections are not sent by spam bots but humans and they revel in perspectives. Whether I agree with them or not, I feel so connected, and happy.
Please note: These rejections came as emails. I converted them to certificates to honor their insight and time investment by very busy editors.
January 13, 2015
The Writer’s Carnival 2015, Hyderabad
I was the morning hostess on both days at The Writer’s Carnival, Hyderabad on 10th and 11th January.
In the afternoon, on Day 1 I conducted a fiction-writing workshop, and on Day 2 a haiku and haibun writing workshop with Akila G.
The participants on both days in this Carnival were very bright and interactive in seeking, learning, and understanding.
I had a lot of fun listening to all that they wrote, critiquing their writings as we went along…
December 8, 2014
My interview in The Hindu (dated: 4th Dec 2014)
Rochelle Potkar agrees that poetry can be incomprehensible and that she’s quite surprised to be a poet herself. “I did advertising and an MBA. A copywriter was as close as I could get to being a poet,” laughs the 35-year-old.
As a fiction writer, Rochelle said she realised that we consume a lot of stories:
“It’s like food,” and poems, she says, “are like fine, distilled water; something that’s necessary.” According to her, poetry can be recited in any tone, irrespective of how it’s written. “Poetry has abstract metaphors and it’s more of a philosophical contemplation; it’s the language of your dreams. While fiction is concrete; you know what is going to happen.”
Read the rest here:
http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/interview-with-poet-rochelle-potkar/article6655135.ece
December 6, 2014
Poems for the Road podcast
Robin Vaughan-William’s poems from the Road podcast is airing every Thursday this month (December) on internet station Hive Radio from 5 to 6 pm.
A poetic journey down Britain’s A-roads and motorways, the show explores the abstraction, violence, landscapes, and migrations that characterise our experience of the road.
It features the work of twenty-six poets, including Luke Wright, Ann Hamblen, Mark Gwynne Jones, River Wolton, James Caruth, Clare Best, and many others.
My poem ‘Holiday’ features in this collection too. ‘The only poem in the show to take us outside the UK.’
You can listen to it here:
https://soundcloud.com/robinrvw/holiday-by-rochelle-potkar
November 30, 2014
My haibun, ‘Molting’ appears in Haibun Today
Did you read my haibun ‘Molting’ already?
If not, here it is:
November 25, 2014
At Cappuccino Readings we caught many a poem on 21 Nov, 2014
For 100’s of more photos of this day and event please follow Cappuccino Readings on Facebook.
The poems in this book, ‘To Catch a poem’ were funny, sweet, and some so contemplative that it truly makes this a bouquet of poems for young people. What a treat!
Wasn’t this the voice that went on in my head as I grew up? I thought as I listened these poems.
This book is edited by Anju Makhija and Jane Bhandari.
Of art other than the word…
My friend, Inam Hussain Mullick, (poet, musician, photographer, actor, theatre practitioner, and journalist from Kolkata) met me and shot this. And this even got selected and featured on Visual Fire:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Visual....
My friend Sneha Sundaram (poet, writer, and dress designer) designed these earrings, and I get to wear these. @ Prana Couture
Book Launches in Hyderabad, November 2014
At Our Sacred Space, we launched, launched, and launched all the books I had promised you we would…
by Nivasini Publishers, spear-headed by Nivedita.
I Muse…
Mother-in-love
Neesah Magazine’s inaugural issue
Journeys – An anthology of International haibun
What a day Nov 1 was.
My poem, ‘Swing’, wins second place at the Wordweavers Contest
My poem, ‘Swing’, wins the second place at the Wordweavers Contest, 2014.
Did I gulp the wine too hurriedly after the shortlist? Did I leave the building too early?
I’m just coming back.
Wait…
