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We read poetry. In parks. See https://www.youtube.com/@PoetryInParks for past meets and https://zigzackly.blogspot.com/2024/01/poetry-in-parks.html for more. We’re also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poetry.in.parks Account managed by PG and L.
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Heaven Looks Like Us: An Evening of Palestinian Poetry 🇵🇸 Join @intifadabatata.bsky.social, @noorhindi.bsky.social, and contributors to the new Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us for a virtual reading in commemoration of Nakba Day. RSVP to join: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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It’s business as usual as the trees fall The roofs cave in and the sewers burst. Take no notice, you in your towers Where the light gentles all storms. ~ First Deluge Of The Season, by Sampurna Chattarji (read by @mumbaipaused.bsky.social) #poetryinparks #poem #pausaala #powergela

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Some pictures from our Panvel meet coming up.

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Come join us in Panvel today!

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At the TGP Sessions, we’re doing an open gallery — like an open mic, but for visual artists — and want to feature artists at the early stages of their careers and dedicated amateurs too. Please help us reach more people? thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/s...

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Monday, 28th. Come. Register on the spot.

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Poetry-loving folx in the MMR, come join us?

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I genuinely wasn't prepared for how deeply moving it is to see someone recite your poem. Thank you for such a beautiful recital L!!

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You can read my poem "A bildungsroman" along with some really stellar work in @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social today!! Sooooo excited and honored to be in such good company. Can't thank the editors and readers at Last Syllable enough 💖💖💖

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It’s time! Last Syllable Issue 4 is officially LIVE! 🚨 Dive into a stunning collection of poetry, prose, and ideas that linger beyond the final word. Read, reflect, and revel in the artistry. ✨ Explore the issue now: lastsyllablelit.com/issue-iv. #LastSyllable #NewIssue #LiteraryMagazine

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We are the same, this land and I - Wilfully ignorant of being at the risk of being burnt down by an inferno of logged water. ~ A bildungsroman by @chamelea.bsky.social #poetryinparks #poem youtu.be/wv694kGqHxE

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It is the International Day of the Book. Quote this post with a picture of the last book of poetry you bought or read.

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Our 18th meet is in a Panvel park on 3 May. To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail.

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I’ve walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don’t be fooled this isn’t a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, its own ways of making people disappear. COUGH murica COUGH

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For Earth Day, here are some readings from our archives of poems with an environmental theme.

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Comrade of decades Annie Zaidi has a new book out. The Bombay launch event is this coming Monday. Free, but prior registration is required. www.litlive.in/literature-l...

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and sailing that ocean prisoners are making journeys around the world in the boats of their minds in the bleak desert of a prison - A Seasonal Poem from the Police Custody, by Namdeo Dhasal read by Sampurna Chattarji youtu.be/nBoAmXV0ZtE #poetryinparks #poem

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If you are interested in poetry events in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, friends and I have started a WhatsApp Channel* whatsapp.com/channel/0029... There is nothing listed there yet, but we will start soon.

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With a flood of water she has blanketed that terrible inferno of hunger She has doused the blaze sufficiently with the unfathomable depths of a single desperation - The Hunger for Justice and the Water of Desperation by Manju Kanchuli Read by @ideasmithy.bsky.social #poetryinparks #poem #poetry

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When I Die by Nikki Giovanni when i die i hope no one who ever hurt me cries & if they cry i hope their eyes fall out & a million maggots that had made up their brains crawl from the empty holes & devour the flesh that covered the evil that passed itself off as a person that i probably tried to love

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There’s a moment when I look at you, and no speech is left in me, my tongue breaks then fire races under my skin and I tremble and grow pale, for I am dying of such love or so it seems to me. - Sappho

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Self-Portrait I resemble everyone but myself, and sometimes see in shop-windows despite the well-known laws of optics. the portrait of a stranger, date unknown, often signed in a corner by my father. - A. K. Ramanujan

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