triveni spotlight: 31st May 2025
- Anju Kishore
- May 31
- 1 min read
triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts: Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Shloka Shankar
31st May 2025
triveni spotlight May 2025
death poem—
reconfiguring
the paperclip
— Keith Evetts
Prune Juice, Issue #36
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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.
_()_ triveni spotlight team
Thank you, Shloka, for this month.
Many went over my head and when it was explained, I liked them a lot.
i liked the way Keith has used the word 'reconfiguring', very unusual and yet it allows the reader to penetrate deeper to search for that clue as to why he had to reconfigure... well, death is not that simple. It comes, it vanishes, it takes away, it remains!
Thank you Shloka once again for all the poems you placed here.