Poetry in Parks
@poetryinparks.bsky.social
We read poetry. In parks.
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Hello.
We are an informal collective which meets under blue (and grey) skies in public parks (in New Bombay, currently) to read each other poetry we love.
Mail poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail to subscribe to our calendar.
More links in our bio.
We are an informal collective which meets under blue (and grey) skies in public parks (in New Bombay, currently) to read each other poetry we love.
Mail poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail to subscribe to our calendar.
More links in our bio.
For the first time, a meet in the island city. Our 28th meet is in a grassy south Bombay maidan on 7th February, at 4:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail dot com
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail dot com
February 6, 2026 at 8:19 AM
For the first time, a meet in the island city. Our 28th meet is in a grassy south Bombay maidan on 7th February, at 4:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail dot com
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail dot com
February 4, 2026 at 11:12 PM
For the first time, a meet in the island city. Our 28th meet is in a grassy south Bombay maidan on 7th February, at 4:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail dot com
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail dot com
i want back my rocking chairs,
solipsist sunsets,
& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches.
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs, by Renée Nicole Macklin.
solipsist sunsets,
& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches.
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs, by Renée Nicole Macklin.
January 20, 2026 at 12:52 PM
i want back my rocking chairs,
solipsist sunsets,
& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches.
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs, by Renée Nicole Macklin.
solipsist sunsets,
& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches.
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs, by Renée Nicole Macklin.
Our 27th meet is in a Vashi park on 10th January, at 4:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail dot com
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail dot com
January 9, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Our 27th meet is in a Vashi park on 10th January, at 4:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail dot com
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail dot com
Reposted by Poetry in Parks
Three evenings and one stage.
Many voices and a shared community space.
Mindscape 2026 - a coming together of ideas, people and perspectives.
🗓️January 16th - 18th, 2026
🕠5:45 PM onwards at the
📍Amphitheatre at the Rock Garden in Nerul, Navi Mumbai
Many voices and a shared community space.
Mindscape 2026 - a coming together of ideas, people and perspectives.
🗓️January 16th - 18th, 2026
🕠5:45 PM onwards at the
📍Amphitheatre at the Rock Garden in Nerul, Navi Mumbai
January 8, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Three evenings and one stage.
Many voices and a shared community space.
Mindscape 2026 - a coming together of ideas, people and perspectives.
🗓️January 16th - 18th, 2026
🕠5:45 PM onwards at the
📍Amphitheatre at the Rock Garden in Nerul, Navi Mumbai
Many voices and a shared community space.
Mindscape 2026 - a coming together of ideas, people and perspectives.
🗓️January 16th - 18th, 2026
🕠5:45 PM onwards at the
📍Amphitheatre at the Rock Garden in Nerul, Navi Mumbai
40 members of the audience
were treated for hypertension.
20 year old dark haired beauties found their heads
had turned a Moses White.
From: Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam
By @danvera.com
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
were treated for hypertension.
20 year old dark haired beauties found their heads
had turned a Moses White.
From: Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam
By @danvera.com
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 5:52 PM
40 members of the audience
were treated for hypertension.
20 year old dark haired beauties found their heads
had turned a Moses White.
From: Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam
By @danvera.com
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
were treated for hypertension.
20 year old dark haired beauties found their heads
had turned a Moses White.
From: Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam
By @danvera.com
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 4:36 AM
As we approach the end of 2025, perhaps you could share your favourite poems about endings (and new beginnings)?
December 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
As we approach the end of 2025, perhaps you could share your favourite poems about endings (and new beginnings)?
Our 26th meet is in a Vashi park on 13th December, at 4:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail dot com
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail dot com
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Our 26th meet is in a Vashi park on 13th December, at 4:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail dot com
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail dot com
Our 25th meet is in a Nerul park on 15th November, at 4:30 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Our 25th meet is in a Nerul park on 15th November, at 4:30 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
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This Sunday, 26 Oct, we chat about our non-human fellow citizens in urban life.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This Sunday, 26 Oct, we chat about our non-human fellow citizens in urban life.
More about:
Rana: thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/m...
Chris: thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/u...
TGP Sessions: thegoaproject.wordpress.com
Register bit.ly/TGPSessions
More about:
Rana: thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/m...
Chris: thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/u...
TGP Sessions: thegoaproject.wordpress.com
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Joining us today?
Our 24th meet is in a Thane park on 18th October, at 4:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
It promises to be a nice sunshiney day, bring a blanket to sit on and all your friends! 🌞🌻
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
It promises to be a nice sunshiney day, bring a blanket to sit on and all your friends! 🌞🌻
October 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Joining us today?
Our 24th meet is in a Thane park on 18th October, at 4:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
It promises to be a nice sunshiney day, bring a blanket to sit on and all your friends! 🌞🌻
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
It promises to be a nice sunshiney day, bring a blanket to sit on and all your friends! 🌞🌻
October 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Our 24th meet is in a Thane park on 18th October, at 4:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
It promises to be a nice sunshiney day, bring a blanket to sit on and all your friends! 🌞🌻
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
It promises to be a nice sunshiney day, bring a blanket to sit on and all your friends! 🌞🌻
Share your poetry books!
I was scouring shelves, cabinets and cartons for my poetry books, and here is what I found. Not all of them, but most.
Which ones have you read?
Perhaps you can share your collection?
(The pile collapsed a few seconds after I took this picture.)
#Books #Poetry #AShelfieButNotOnAShelf
Which ones have you read?
Perhaps you can share your collection?
(The pile collapsed a few seconds after I took this picture.)
#Books #Poetry #AShelfieButNotOnAShelf
![The image is a photograph of a teetering stack of books of various thicknesses, their spines facing the lens.
The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash
Candy is Dandy, Ogden Nash
Poems on the Underground
Nine Horses, Billy Collins
The Vintage Book of Contemporary Poetry, JD McClatchy (editor)
फैज़, चुनी हुई शायरी
crush, Annie Zaidi (illustrated by Gynelle Alves)
Triage: Casualties of Love and Sex, Margaret Mascarenhas
The Collected Poems, Vikram Seth
Girls are Coming Out of the Woods, Tishani Doshi
The Altar of the Only World, Sharanya Manivannan
Ghalib in translation, OP Kejariwal
The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth
Monk on a Hill, Guru Tshering Ladakhi
50 Poets, 50 Poems, Priya Sarukkai Chabria (editor) [There were two volumes but the other one is with a friend. This was printed and circulated privately, and not available in shops.]
A Reluctant Survivor, Sridala Swami
My Sunset Marriage, Hoshang Merchant
Until the Lions, Karthika Nair
Sight May Strike You Blind, Sampurna Chattarji
Women Who Wear Only Themselves, Arundhathi Subramaniam
Love Without A Story, Arundhathi Subramaniam
When God is a Traveller, Arundhathi Subramaniam
Unmappable Moves, Sampurna Chattarji
Frazil, Menka Shivdasani
Collected Poems, Nissim Ezekiel
Collected Poems, by Gieve Patel
I'll Have It Here, by Jeet Thayil
View from the Web, by Anju Makhija
Over & Under Ground in Paris & Mumbai, Karthika Nair Sampurna Chattarji, (with illustrations by Roshni Vyam, Joelle Jolivet)
The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, Jeet Thayil (editor)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzdheqgohnk3ygtkw2fpsiw4/bafkreic4wtueofvfidicxqx3xewe7vaukekjhi3ly3lt6re37fb2dbs56i@jpeg)
October 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Share your poetry books!
Lord,
when you send the rain
think about it, please,
a little?
As parts of India battle floods, this James Baldwin poem, read by @zigzackly.bsky.social: youtu.be/XGGI7bPoIhE
when you send the rain
think about it, please,
a little?
As parts of India battle floods, this James Baldwin poem, read by @zigzackly.bsky.social: youtu.be/XGGI7bPoIhE
Untitled, by James Baldwin
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
September 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Lord,
when you send the rain
think about it, please,
a little?
As parts of India battle floods, this James Baldwin poem, read by @zigzackly.bsky.social: youtu.be/XGGI7bPoIhE
when you send the rain
think about it, please,
a little?
As parts of India battle floods, this James Baldwin poem, read by @zigzackly.bsky.social: youtu.be/XGGI7bPoIhE
Reposted by Poetry in Parks
The city’s longest-running open mic. Free for both audience and performers.
I’m hosting tomorrow.
Registration starts on the spot at around 6:45: show up and put your name on the board. The first 20 people are guaranteed a slot.
Event starts 7:00 p.m. . Come! Bring friends. Tell others.
#BomSky
I’m hosting tomorrow.
Registration starts on the spot at around 6:45: show up and put your name on the board. The first 20 people are guaranteed a slot.
Event starts 7:00 p.m. . Come! Bring friends. Tell others.
#BomSky
September 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The city’s longest-running open mic. Free for both audience and performers.
I’m hosting tomorrow.
Registration starts on the spot at around 6:45: show up and put your name on the board. The first 20 people are guaranteed a slot.
Event starts 7:00 p.m. . Come! Bring friends. Tell others.
#BomSky
I’m hosting tomorrow.
Registration starts on the spot at around 6:45: show up and put your name on the board. The first 20 people are guaranteed a slot.
Event starts 7:00 p.m. . Come! Bring friends. Tell others.
#BomSky
Our 23nd meet is in a Nerul park on 20th September, at 5:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
Be there or be... well, warm and dry inside because it may rain ☔ (but don't worry it's a nice park with a shelter)
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
Be there or be... well, warm and dry inside because it may rain ☔ (but don't worry it's a nice park with a shelter)
September 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Our 23nd meet is in a Nerul park on 20th September, at 5:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
Be there or be... well, warm and dry inside because it may rain ☔ (but don't worry it's a nice park with a shelter)
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
Be there or be... well, warm and dry inside because it may rain ☔ (but don't worry it's a nice park with a shelter)
It would have been Mary Oliver’s 90th birthday yesterday. Here are a few readings of her work from our archives.
September 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
It would have been Mary Oliver’s 90th birthday yesterday. Here are a few readings of her work from our archives.
Poetry in Parks is volunteer-run and zero-budget.
Your likes, comments, re-shares and follows, your forwarding our posts, are the only ways we get more visibility.
We also post to our Instagram and Facebook (links in bio), so if you are on those platforms, please amplify us there as well? Thank you!
Your likes, comments, re-shares and follows, your forwarding our posts, are the only ways we get more visibility.
We also post to our Instagram and Facebook (links in bio), so if you are on those platforms, please amplify us there as well? Thank you!
August 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Poetry in Parks is volunteer-run and zero-budget.
Your likes, comments, re-shares and follows, your forwarding our posts, are the only ways we get more visibility.
We also post to our Instagram and Facebook (links in bio), so if you are on those platforms, please amplify us there as well? Thank you!
Your likes, comments, re-shares and follows, your forwarding our posts, are the only ways we get more visibility.
We also post to our Instagram and Facebook (links in bio), so if you are on those platforms, please amplify us there as well? Thank you!
Our quest for poems and parks we haven’t discovered yet continues.
Our 22nd meet is in a Koparkhairane park on 23 August, at 4:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
Our 22nd meet is in a Koparkhairane park on 23 August, at 4:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
August 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Our quest for poems and parks we haven’t discovered yet continues.
Our 22nd meet is in a Koparkhairane park on 23 August, at 4:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
Our 22nd meet is in a Koparkhairane park on 23 August, at 4:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
St Xavier’s College has decided it will celebrate 1st August, the late Eunice de Souza’s birthday, as Poetry Day.
Here are a few readings of Prof de Souza’s poems from our archives.
Here are a few readings of Prof de Souza’s poems from our archives.
#Poetry #Bombay
The registration link, in case you have trouble with the QR code: forms.gle/NBYfz7BD9Ws4...
The registration link, in case you have trouble with the QR code: forms.gle/NBYfz7BD9Ws4...
![St. Xavier's College Library
CELEBRATES
Eunice de Souza's
BIRTH ANNIVERSARY as Poetry Day
Venue: Reference Library, 2nd Floor, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
Date: 1st August, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM
SCAN TO REGISTER! [QR code]
[Or use this link: https://forms.gle/NBYfz7BD9Ws46Mgt5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzdheqgohnk3ygtkw2fpsiw4/bafkreibggcsocf3wkeltsjcddva55cveaga4tatowpsttmod4mcvhiepuq@jpeg)
August 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
St Xavier’s College has decided it will celebrate 1st August, the late Eunice de Souza’s birthday, as Poetry Day.
Here are a few readings of Prof de Souza’s poems from our archives.
Here are a few readings of Prof de Souza’s poems from our archives.
अब रात घिरने लगी तो तूं मिला है
तूं भी उदास, चुप, शान्त और अडोल
मैं भी उदास, चुप, शान्त और अडोल
सिर्फ- दूर बहते समुन्द्र में तूफान है…..
~ एक मुलाक़ात, अमृता प्रीतम
Read by Sudheesh.
#poetryinparks #poem #Indianpoetry #Asianpoetry
तूं भी उदास, चुप, शान्त और अडोल
मैं भी उदास, चुप, शान्त और अडोल
सिर्फ- दूर बहते समुन्द्र में तूफान है…..
~ एक मुलाक़ात, अमृता प्रीतम
Read by Sudheesh.
#poetryinparks #poem #Indianpoetry #Asianpoetry
एक मुलाक़ात, अमृता प्रीतम
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
July 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
अब रात घिरने लगी तो तूं मिला है
तूं भी उदास, चुप, शान्त और अडोल
मैं भी उदास, चुप, शान्त और अडोल
सिर्फ- दूर बहते समुन्द्र में तूफान है…..
~ एक मुलाक़ात, अमृता प्रीतम
Read by Sudheesh.
#poetryinparks #poem #Indianpoetry #Asianpoetry
तूं भी उदास, चुप, शान्त और अडोल
मैं भी उदास, चुप, शान्त और अडोल
सिर्फ- दूर बहते समुन्द्र में तूफान है…..
~ एक मुलाक़ात, अमृता प्रीतम
Read by Sudheesh.
#poetryinparks #poem #Indianpoetry #Asianpoetry
When I didn't know how to live
I became my grandmother:
opening windows in the morning
early enough to see the light
sifting between the curtains
~ Hong Kong by Sue Zhao
Read by Vasudha.
#poetryinparks #poem #Asianpoetry
I became my grandmother:
opening windows in the morning
early enough to see the light
sifting between the curtains
~ Hong Kong by Sue Zhao
Read by Vasudha.
#poetryinparks #poem #Asianpoetry
Hong Kong, by Sue Zhao
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
July 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
When I didn't know how to live
I became my grandmother:
opening windows in the morning
early enough to see the light
sifting between the curtains
~ Hong Kong by Sue Zhao
Read by Vasudha.
#poetryinparks #poem #Asianpoetry
I became my grandmother:
opening windows in the morning
early enough to see the light
sifting between the curtains
~ Hong Kong by Sue Zhao
Read by Vasudha.
#poetryinparks #poem #Asianpoetry
Our 21st meet is in a Khargarh park on 26 July, at 5:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
July 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Our 21st meet is in a Khargarh park on 26 July, at 5:00 p.m.
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
To get the map location, calendar invitation, and suggested theme, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail
#poetrysky what is a poem you come back to often?
July 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
#poetrysky what is a poem you come back to often?