Lesson 7: How to Dream a Beautiful Death
“…this is how he wants to go—/ like an ochre flower in a field,/ hungry and alive, the wind rushing in,/ scattering him everywhere.” By Tishani Doshi.
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Geography of Tongues
“I am the map/ I am the cartographer// no sextant/ no compass/ only eyes/ ears and tongue.” By Shikha Malaviya.
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Hell Hath No Puri
“…the Puris, those witches, wanted man-/ bhaji. I bedded one—which I don’t know—/ so all three saw me as common property.” By Jeet Thayil.
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Elegy for the Gold Aunt
“Take my relation with her tongue restless as fire./ Take my relation with her legacy of shame.” By Minal Hajratwala.
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Two Wolves, Come Separately To A Wood
“I got hungrier and hungrier./ I chewed the trees like bones, I ate their meat.” By Aditi Machado.
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Swat: In Search of a Paradise Lost
Guest writer Zubair Torwali reminisces about his home, the Swat Valley, a paradise lost to the tragedy and violence of conflict.
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Muse
“Silence/ approaches/ from the/ left side of the/ d o o r…” Weekend poem, by Ronojoy Sircar
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Poet of the Month: Ãgnes Lehóczky
Audrey Ryback talks to Poet of the Month Ãgnes Lehóczky about the challenges of writing in two languages, and the difficulties of defining poetry.
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Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of writing (and 50 reasons to ignore them) #8
Jacob Silkstone tells you to go ahead and write those ‘detailed descriptions’ after all…
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School’s Out
“In winter the school year begins,/ we play gili danda and oonch neech/ in the schoolyard,/ We race home till our legs hurt…” Poem of the Week (September 10), by Rakhshan Rizwan.
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