In this episode of Cutting Chai Stories with Jayati Vora, we dip a toe into writing poetry. I share three poems written in the workshop I led last week, all juxtaposing imagery and abstraction. We play with line breaks, different kinds of rhyme, and creating new relationships between the tangible and intangible. This is the Gwendolyn Brooks' poem I mentioned; I mistakenly called it The Pool Players, the title is actually "We Real Cool." It is really cool, check it out here: https://poets.org/poem/we-real-cool
About the poets:
Oswald Perez writes to share the world through his eyes using words, photos and prose. As words are a work of ART. His works can be found on Instagram at @oswaldperez85, on his blog at perezoswald.wordpress.com and at oswald.substack.com.
Hetal Sheth was running her family’s business plant until recently, manufacturing industrial steel drums, and is now rediscovering her creative spirit and dreams of becoming an artist and writer. Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hetal_sheth_artist/
Meera Patwardhan says she’s sometimes described as an oxymoron, because she’s a creative MBA. She likes to think of herself as a whole-brained person who manages life, work and leisure and makes light of it.
