#53 - poetry, a video premiere and a whole lot of podcasts
video premiere: call home by madràs
madràs and rema chaudhary come together in this introspective, mesmerising film for call home.
watch the full video here.
Art by Charly Clements
Poems I read last week:
"I wonder how many people in this city
live in furnished rooms.
Late at night when i look out at the buildings
I swear I see a face in every window
looking back at me
and when I turn away
I wonder how many go back to their desks
and write this down."
-I wonder how many people in this city by Leonard Cohen
"And once, you stopped
on a dark desert road
to show me the stars
climbing over each other
riotously
like insects
like an orchestra
thrashing its way
through time itself
I never saw light that way
again."
-from The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car by Dorthea Grossman
"Love, love, love, says Percy.
And hurry as fast as you can
along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust.
Then, go to sleep.
Give up your body heat, your beating heart.
Then, trust."
-I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life by Mary Oliver
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"I’d like to go out
for a swim but
it’s a little cool
for that. Enough to
sit here drinking coffee,
writing, watching the clear
day ripen (such
a rainy June we had)
while Jane and Joe
sleep in their room
and John in his. I
think I’ll make more toast."
-from June 30, 1974 by James Schuyler
"We met over a small
earthquake. Now, my knees
shake whenever
you come around
and I've noticed your hand
has a slight tremor."
-I Have Always Confused Desire With Apocalypse by Daphne Gottlieb
Recommended Listening: The Podcast Edition
Lit Hub Radio
Marbles Lost & Found
Welcome to the Teachers' Lounge
On Being: Tending Joy and Practicing Delight with Ross Gay
Links of the Week:
50 ways to find more joy every day
How Music Works: Interactive Music Theory Lessons
The Great Hack Is A Terrifying Warning & The Most Important Doc This Year Working Woman's Handbook: How to overcome fear How to process climate news (and stay grounded)
Instagram lovin':
Paper Planes (loving their new shop and blog apart from the delicious magazines they stock)
Green Humour (Rohan's giving a talk at IIHS this Thursday)
Ro Doodles (I decided to stop being lazy and give my doodles a home on the internet.)
Bangalore, there are two fantastic events happening this coming weekend: Nature In Focus and Bangalore Queer Film Festival. I'll be chilling at BQFF all weekend, watching movies and helping out at Champaca's pop-up bookstore there, so if you're around, come say hi!
Signing off,
Rohini