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A poetry workshop with Natasha Badhwar
Description :
Reading and writing poems is both a promise and risk. Poetry slows down time.
It revives languages that flow in our veins. Poetry reminds us of dreams
deferred. Allow the rhythm of words to ebb and flow, to awaken images and song
and whisper secrets we had forgotten we always knew.
Host: Natasha Badhwar
Natasha Badhwar is the author of the non-fiction books My Daughters' Mum and Immortal For A Moment, which explore parenting, marriage, faith, and selfhood in an increasingly fractured world. She is widely known for her decade-long series of personal-political essays published in Mint Lounge and has also written for The Morning Context, Indian Express, The Hindu, Outlook, and The Tribune.
As a writing coach, Natasha facilitates creative writing workshops that inspire self-expression and intentional living. She nurtures the Ochre Sky Stories writing community on Substack, edits its weekly newsletter, teaches Media Studies and Creative Writing at Ashoka University, and is currently writing a new book on sustaining love in a world increasingly leaning towards estrangement.
A poetry writing workshop with Naresh Saxena (Hindi)
Description :
नरेश सक्सेना कविता के ज़रूरी तत्वों पर चर्चा करेंगे। कविता में सूक्ष्मता, सुंदरता, लय, प्रवाह, ध्वनयात्कमता, बिम्ब, रूपक, संरचना, संवेदना और नवीनता जैसे ज़रूरी तत्वों पर नरेश जी उदहारण देकर विमर्श करेंगे. सहभागी कवियों की कविताओं का पाठ और उनपर नरेश जी और कार्यशाला में मौजूद साथी अपने सुझाव देंगे। कोशिश रहेगी कि हर सहभागी नया लिखने को प्रोत्साहित हो।
Host: Naresh Saxena
Born in 1939, Naresh Saxena is a Hindi poet well-known across all generations. He has authored three poetry collections: ‘Samudra par ho rahi hai Baarish’, ‘Suno Charushila’, and ‘Ek Anaam Patti ka Smarak’. A retired engineer, Saxena has also worked actively across various domains such as film, theatre, and music. He has produced short films, serials, and documentary films, and received a National Award for film direction. In his work, one finds a rare confluence of science and art. His poems are included in curricula, from the first grade up to the university level, in Kerala, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Maharashtra, and other states. He has also been honoured with numerous awards, including the Pahal Samman,
A poetry workshop with CP Surendran
Description :
The poem is a naked person.
Poetry is a way of speech when other forms fail; it’s the christening of a feeling, a way of seeing.
Learn the function of image, sound and surprise in poetry. Know why concrete details in a poem matter. Focus on craft rather than interpretation through writing exercises
Host: CP Surendran
CP Surendran is a poet, novelist, script writer and columnist. (Here's a link to one of his recent columns, The Reader as Leader, connecting the consumption of literature to leadership). His latest novel is The One Love and the Many Lives of Osip B) and his latest collection of poems is Window With a Train Attached. He divides his time between Delhi and Kerala.
A poetry workshop on enhancing your editing skills by Bhumika Anand
Description :
Explore poetry with the lens of an editor and see how to Structure (the physical layout), play with Sound (the musicality), and explore Meaning (theme of the poem) in your poems.
Host: Bhumika Anand
Bhumika Anand is the Founder and Director of Bangalore Writers Workshop (BWW).
Bhumika Anand is also the editor of The BWW Book of Emerging Poets.
BWW is the first-of-its-kind writing and storytelling school established in Bangalore, India since 2012. BWW fosters the creative mind and encourages a community of writers