triveni spotlight: 1st May 2025
- Anju Kishore
- May 1
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triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts: Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Shloka Shankar
1st May 2025
triveni spotlight May 2025
any moment now i art
— Raghav Prashant Sundar
whiptail: journal of the single-line poem, Issue #4
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Theme: Metapoems & Language
I have always been fascinated by the creative process—the sacred act of writing itself, the repealing of the blank page. To celebrate the ars poetica and the building blocks of language, my curation for the month of May centres around metapoems. What happens when whole lexicons, adjectives, verbs, apostrophes, and schwas lace haiku with nuance and layers? How can grammatical terms form the backbone of a poem? I hope you enjoy unfolding these questions—and more—as you ponder these sixteen poems.
Shloka Shankar
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Many thanks to our guest editor Shloka Shankar for this month’s selection and theme. Poets, we look forward to your company on this fascinating tour of what language can do to the poetry of haiku.
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This monoku is talking about the creative process, how it is almost always around the corner. The muse finds you while creating. If we sit around waiting, it never amounts to much. And it is also alluding to Descartes's "I think therefore I am."
Wish anybody could explain this!!
I am lost here. ??