Poetry Popsicles will be launched this week with an online poetry and mindfulness workshop which will be conducted by the platform’s founder Prarthana Banikya who is a poet, writer, and editor of The Little Journal of Northeast India. “Poetry is a creative outlet that allows me to be mindful. When we write about something that moved us, it helps us in clarifying the whole experience and paying more attention to it,” she shares. Poetry writing and reading is a mindful experience and meditative process that will be facilitated in the workshop. The two-hour sitting will comprise  of theory and writing exercises where participants will observe the little things around them and establish a link between poetry and the experiences it can offer.

The platform is an iteration of Poet’s Nook, a 2010 group founded by Banikya where they met for ‘poetry in the park’ events. The idea is to revive similar reading sessions as well as monthly or quarterly workshops with different themes. While Banikya is based in Bengaluru and will focus on in-person workshops and meetings, there will be a mix of online events open to anyone from anywhere as long as their time zones don’t interfere. Banikya adds that she won’t be restricting the subject to just works from Northeast India or Asia, to ensure every participant is able to find a bit of what they like from any poet across the world. She aims to bring about poetry appreciation and make the subject accessible to all — a task that begins with a fun and inviting name.

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On: January 28; 2 pm to 4 pm
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Cost: Rs 350