Dear all,
Here are four emails I got personally as a response to my request to members to send 50 words about themselves and another 50 about the kind of poetry they read and write. If you haven't sent your bio already, then jaldi karo, just hit the reply button! Please consider not writing abstract sentences in the first 50 words about yourself. Fortunately or unfortunately, we tend to "know" each other in the real world by the work we do, the city we live in, the education we got. And the poetry we write, for which you have the next 50 words. And this word limit is suggestive; you are most welcome to write more. See the database entries at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/database Cheers Shivam o o o o o o o Adreesh Katyal Lucknow Adreesh Katyal is a student at the University of Lucknow. Since the classes at the university are so uninspiring, he spends his time (no, not writing poetry!) doing a hundred other things. Such as helping out with the ZEST lists. Adreesh is interested in popular culture, open source software, vaccines for canines and World War II movies. He aspires to be a wine taster. Adreesh reads poetry just for the music of words. He does not write any poetry himself, but is here in ZESTPoets just to read, and more importantly, to help Juhi, Monica and Shivam with the day to day travails of the thankless job of running a mailing list. o o o o oo Maya Ganesh Mumbai / Bombay I have two names, one real, the other unreal. One official, the other unofficial. But you will only know me as Maya. Everyone does. And Maya doesn't exist on this plane - no bank account, no passport, no lease nor telephone bill. Much of my life so far has been about bridging this gap between a corpo/reality and an imagined one. Some days the duality feels as intimate as the skin I was born in. On other days it feels like a mask that has been worn so long it has become my skin. So I write. I always have. The short story is what I enjoy writing the most and find it the most challenging. I read a little bit of poetry everyday (because "it makes you exercise muscles you never knew you had" - Ray Bradbury). Now I just make poems on my fridge door with my magnetic poetry pack. Writing poetry usually inspires in me a rare terror like no other form of writing does. In the last three years I have chosen to focus entirely on writing, casting away other things that felt untrue. I write to pay the bills, and I write to feed the soul. By day I am a consultant to inter/national agencies and NGOs in the gender/sexual health/HIV&AIDS prevention sectors as as a writer and researcher. Apart from writing I enjoy yoga, traveling, and cooking exotic meals. I moved to Bombay 18 months ago and I don't think I could live any where else now... o o o o o Debanjan Bagchi City not mentioned Hi Shivam, I am Debanjan, I work with money (banking), probably a profession that requires qualities which are exactly 360 degrees opposite to the qualities of a poet. And probably that's why I have not been able to write anything that can by remotest chance be called a poem. Nevertheless I love reading any kind of good literature and someday I hope ZESTPoets will inspire me to write something on my own. I live in Singapore. This is my primary mail ID. Age 30. Living my last few days of bachelorhood. Best regards, Deb o o o o o o Paromita Patronobish Durgapur/Delhi I stole money from home to get hold of a Dead Poets Society V.C.R and ran it twice every day till the video rental people came hounding me at my doorstep three months later. this was when I had been grounded and denied t.v for a month after flunking my English Lit paper for being overtly prolix. My association with poetry has been rather strange. just like my personality, my poetry is defined by paradoxes. In pure poetic terms, I see myself as an abortive cross between Nietszche's Zarathushtra and the dove from Noah's ark that flew. and found its "Space" in Wole Soyinka's "Shuttle". Doing an under-graduate course in English Literature can really, seriously brain damage ones "poetic sensibilities", or so I think. Yet from strange elements is born poetry's stranger alchemy. i tend to discover that these days. -- "I may not agree with what you say, but I shall defend to death your right to say it." - Voltaire http://www.bloglines.com/blog/Shivam ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. 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