Tag: poetry
Count
In a new year mood (that has been dampened by the ways of the world) I visited my Submittable page(the page where are all your submissions to poetry and fiction journals can be recorded) and saw that my submission count of poetry and fiction has been so very limited! Why … Continue Reading Count
Easy Hat
Is creativity the easiest hat to wear? A magician’s hat? A poet has it easy- she writes poems if she is persistent, she publishes in several journals and starts making a name for herself. A writer writes a story, maybe an e-book that sells like hotcakes. Then he writes a … Continue Reading Easy Hat
Talking to The ‘Great’ Indian Poetry Collective
Reading a poem for the first time
Facebook is a good thing sometimes. Came across a poem by Galway Kinnell called ‘Little Sleep’s-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight’ and it was like reading something I knew but could not articulate adequately enough. The first reading of any poem is like that- there are just words in the … Continue Reading Reading a poem for the first time
A poet’s timeline
I’ve been perusing a great many twitter timelines on twitter lately. One timeline that I find delightful is this one by George Szirtes: https://twitter.com/george_szirtes. He writes a series of one poem or maybe a continuous theme in 140 characters. The poem I followed was posted at various times of the day. … Continue Reading A poet’s timeline
Showing your Work
That long silence and reading Cleland’s Room of Thieves
It’s been a while since I posted. It has been almost three years now since this blog was conceptualized in a sudden impulsive mood. I just realized that! Being off of the blog for a while reminded me of a poem I wrote in 2012 called Angry Young Blog. There … Continue Reading That long silence and reading Cleland’s Room of Thieves
@ Ellen Kombiyil’s Poetry Workshop- II
Like I said in my previous post, I leave the stage to Ellen Kombiyil. As part of Project Inspire, I ask poets to share a prompt or some kind of inspiration. Ellen agreed to do a workshop right here! So here goes…the space is yours! First of all, I … Continue Reading @ Ellen Kombiyil’s Poetry Workshop- II
@ Ellen Kombiyil’s Poetry Workshop- I
I met Ellen one day during one of her workshop sessions. I just had to talk with her at the blog. She walks, talks, and dreams poems and I was ecstatic when she agreed to talk about her workshop process and future projects. Ellen creates the right atmosphere for her students- … Continue Reading @ Ellen Kombiyil’s Poetry Workshop- I
Reading with my Smartphone
Reading on your smartphone can be a bit addictive and maybe even laced with distraction but have you ever tried reading your paperback or hardcover with your smartphone? Books are often very geography specific. It’s one thing watching a movie about a story set in a moor and quite another reading … Continue Reading Reading with my Smartphone
Of Amazon and other things
Saved by a Poem–conversation with Kim Rosen
Illustrating Poetry with Julian Peters- Part 1
Transience and Tigers
I’ve subscribed to poets.org. So I get a poem every day. This besides all the other stuff in my inbox. The other day I came across a beautiful poem and I wanted to hold on to it. The problem is that I read these everyday poems and articles cursorily on … Continue Reading Transience and Tigers
Reading The Hoop
The Hoop is a slender book as poetry books are. It is divided into two parts” The Hoop” and “Green”. John Burnside wrote this magnificent collection, his first book, with nature as his guide. His ecological praxis explores a centring that is lost and can only be restored by the … Continue Reading Reading The Hoop
Muse Stop
Shut your doors/slide your windows/stand still/do not breathe/ do not count to three/ do not tell the monkey in your head to stop jumping/shaking the leaves/falling the fruit/stop/do not look back/if you do you will reach the edge/ if you do you will fall off the world as flat as … Continue Reading Muse Stop