About The Event
As part of the annual Bengaluru Poetry Festival, prize-winning poet, author and screenwriter Rochelle Potkar will be conducting an exclusive session on the art of Haibun. What the participants will take away from the workshop -
They will learn to think in brevity and distill their thoughts in imagery.
They will learn to include themselves in the frame-of-view while observing the world, for poetry.
They will learn how to narrate their epiphanies in lyricism and with economy.
Requirements: Writing Material will be provided
About the Facilitator:
Widely anthologized, Rochelle Potkar is a prize-winning poet, author, and screenwriter based in Mumbai. She is the author of Four Degrees of Separation (poetry), Paper Asylum (haibun) - shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020, and Bombay Hangovers (short fiction). An alumna of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2015) and a Charles Wallace Writer’s fellow, University. of Stirling (2017), her poetry film `Skirt` featured on Shonda Rhime`s Shondaland via the Visible Poetry Project. She conducts online poetry workshops for the Himalayan Writing Retreat and was invited for four consecutive years to teach at Iowa’s International Writing Programs: Summer Institute 2019 and Between the Lines 2022, 2023, 2024 as a creative-writing teacher. Her prize-winning manuscript of poetry `Coins in Rivers` was released in April 2024, Hachette India.
