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Some poetry news in an otherwise impossible world

Posted in academics, activism, work, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

What’s happening in the Vanni is becoming more atrocious by the day: we earlier mourned for the hundreds dead each day, now it is into the thousands. Reading any news simply sends me spiralling into depression. Wanted to sort of take stock of what is going on with my life. Blog posts here shall become [...]

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Sheher: Front Cover

Posted in poetry, women, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 4, 2008 | 17 Comments »

We are still experimenting… But here’s the tentative front cover… Let me know what you think. Artwork was specially commissioned from Chalukya for this cover.  Amazing talent, in my opinion…

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I finally found a title…

Posted in culture, poetry, women, writing, tagged , , , , , on July 26, 2008 | 10 Comments »

So, after racking my tiny little brain and troubling every one I knew for ideas, I just came up with the title for this book… And Priya Sarukkai even found it cool, so I guess it isn’t so bad…
SHEHER
Urban Poetry by Indian Women.
(I won’t praise its merits. For the lot of those who don’t know [...]

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Sixty and Done

Posted in book, city, poetry, women, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »

The final line-up (names in alphabetical order (last name-wise)–for those who are wondering at this arbitrariness)
Usha Akella, Meena Alexander, Anoopa Anand, Jane Bhandari, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Sujata Bhatt, Sampurna Chattarji, Rimi Chatterjee, Pervin Chhapkhanawala, Roselyn D’Mello, Mamang Dai, Kamala Das, Nabina Das, Atreyee Day, Eunice De Souza, Mira Desai, Nandini Dhar, Imitiaz Dharker, Tishani Doshi, [...]

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Announcement

Posted in poetry, women, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on June 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »

The list of the poets who will be featured in our anthology of urban poetry by Indian women will be put up on my blog and on the publisher’s blog on JUNE 30. When the submissions throws up large numbers (200 poets, 700+ poems) it is guaranteed to make anybody get overwhelmed, or as in [...]

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Jet City Woman

Posted in culture, poetry, poetry publishing, women, writing, tagged , , , , , , on April 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »

My call-for-poems was originally a letter I sent to women poets I knew, and admired. And then I thought, why not cast a wider net, why not fish for more? So here is a abridged version (and no, you can’t submit if you are a man. please. it is not yet a week yet and eight [...]

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