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

At Prithvi Theatre Café on Monday. @zigzackly.bsky.social is hosting this month. Come, bring friends. Spread the word The longest-running #OpenMic in the #MMR. #Bombay #Mumbai #Bambai #Poetry #Storytelling #Songs #Stand-upComedy

I’m hosting this session. Come if you’re in the area and have the time? (Like all open mics, quality is a matter of luck on the day, but Prithvi is a vibe on its own.)

So far Kickstarter backers of @matratype.bsky.social's INDIA STREET LETTERING book project have donated 24 copies of the book to the Free Libraries Network! Available as an Add-On when you pledge your support! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Sent out a substantial bunch of writing opportunities this weekend. Catch them all at: groups.google.com/group/Cafera... t.me/CaferatiList... whatsapp.com/channel/0029... And you can share opportunities you know about via this form: bit.ly/caf-listings... @caferati.bsky.social

I recall being floored by a prose poem called "Husband" many years ago, and I want to read it again. It was by an Asian-American writer, possibly queer. Can you help me find it, please?

Listen to me as one listens to the rain, not attentive, not distracted, light footsteps, thin drizzle, water that is air, air that is time, the day is still leaving, the night has yet to arrive, As One Listens to the Rain, by Octavio Paz. Read by Jincy Varghese.

Treat a poem like dirt, humus rich and heavy from the garden. Later on it will become the fat tomatoes and golden squash piled high upon your kitchen table How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual, by Pamela Spiro Wagner. Read by Neha Kudchadkar.

Next in our open platform showcase series: an open mic for amateur stand-up comedians. The best submissions get a feedback and tips session with an expert mentor, Aditi Mittal, before they take their turn at the mic. Read all about it: thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/l...

We are the same, this land and I - Wilfully ignorant of being at the risk of being burnt down by an inferno of logged water. ~ A bildungsroman by @chamelea.bsky.social #poetryinparks #poem youtu.be/wv694kGqHxE

It’s business as usual as the trees fall The roofs cave in and the sewers burst. Take no notice, you in your towers Where the light gentles all storms. ~ First Deluge Of The Season, by Sampurna Chattarji (read by @mumbaipaused.bsky.social) #poetryinparks #poem #pausaala #powergela

After every war someone has to clean up. Things won’t straighten themselves up, after all. Someone has to push the rubble to the side of the road, so the corpse-filled wagons can pass. ~The End and the Beginning Wislawa Szymborska (translated by Joanna Trzeciak) Read by Anu #poetryinparks #poem

The drone’s buzzing sound, the roar of an F-16, the screams of bombs falling on houses, on fields, and on bodies, of rockets flying away— rid my small ear canal of them all. ~ Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, by @mosababutoha.bsky.social read by Deepti Khera. #PoetryforPalestine #NakbaDay

Imagine our streets full of women, talking, strolling, laughing and gesticulating. Visualise parks and beaches dotted with young women sitting alone. Imagine street corners taken over by old women reflecting on the state of the world. ~ from @whyloiter.bsky.social read by Sukrity G #poetryinparks

Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night... ~ from the journals of Sylvia Plath read by Garima S. #poetryinparks

Heaven Looks Like Us: An Evening of Palestinian Poetry 🇵🇸 Join @intifadabatata.bsky.social, @noorhindi.bsky.social, and contributors to the new Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us for a virtual reading in commemoration of Nakba Day. RSVP to join: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Monday, 28th. Come. Register on the spot.

#WorldBookDay Quote this post with a picture of the book you are #NowReading.

#WorldBookDay Quote this post with a picture of the last book you bought.

Comrade of decades Annie Zaidi has a new book out. The Bombay launch event is this coming Monday. Free, but prior registration is required. www.litlive.in/literature-l...

Just hit me that I can say that I have friends via Caferati (and Ryze, the first post-blogs social networking site for many of us in India, where Caferati first took shape) for decades. Plural. Like more than 20 years. 🧓🏾 And, come 2007, 2008, that will be true of Fb and Twitter pals.

Kolkata! Come to our launch event for The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF with @architamittra.bsky.social and Prachi Singh at Storyteller Bookstore, next week Saturday April 19!

Our leader Simpy, reading Anita Bharti’s Krantikari Jai Bhim poem, reminds us that 14th April is not just a date it's a call to continue Babasaheb’s fight for equality. Bharti’s poem is the voice of millions who are still struggling for their rights. youtu.be/ppvFsOqYuH8

If you love poetry and Koparkhairane is accessible for you, come, join us.

If you make your own music, sign up!

Tomorrow, the 24th, is March’s fourth Monday. So, you know where to come.

If you love books and are in Delhi, you don't want to miss this... Annie Zaidi is an important writer, and she's launching her book at @tclp.bsky.social because she loves libraries! Register: forms.gle/7FYXoBYYhqnH...

An open mic that combines writing and performance skills with quick thinking. Submission deadline: 7th March.

Our 16th meet is in a Nerul park on Saturday, 8th March, at 4:00 p.m. For the map location pin and calendar invitation, please email poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail by the 7th to avoid our possibly missing your mail. There is no mandatory theme, but we will suggest one in the invitation email.

For our next TGP Sessions, we continue our experiment with our community-focused Sessions. Welcome to TGP’s second online open mic. This time it is for storytellers. But there is a plot twist. Please see thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/a... for the details.

Caferati has always been about supporting writers. But where would writers be without readers? (And all writers are, first and always, readers.) Free libraries make more readers and writers, that is why this is a @freelibsnet.bsky.social stan account and we are amplifying #LibraryLove.

We have a serious case of Library L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Anindita Ghose is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

L💙VE to love free libraries? Then you’ll love this! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Likla and Kripa are making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

L💙VE to love free libraries? Then you’ll love this! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL @WanderersAll is making a cool offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

Free is Equal and Free Libraries Equal L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL @zigzackly.bsky.social & #RajivEipe are making a FUN offer. Scan the QR code on slide 2 OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

Free is Equal and Free Libraries Equal L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Manjul Bajaj is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

Breaking news! You have 'Library L💙VED' this offer and filled up all the seats! So Sayoni Basu has kindly offered 2 more! Grab it now! Scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

Free is Equal --> Free Libraries Equal L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Priya Kuriyan is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

Library L💙VE is Revolutionary Love! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Avtar Singh is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

For anyone experiencing trouble using the 'Library Love' fundraiser QR code in previous posts, pls use this one. Apologies for the trouble! जो कोई भी पिछले पोस्ट में 'Library Love' फंडरेज़र QR कोड का उपयोग करने में समस्या का सामना कर रहा है, कृपया इस कोड का उपयोग करें। असुविधा के लिए क्षमा करें!

Library L💙VE is Revolutionary Love! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Adithi Rao is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

A new week for library L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Manjula Padmanabhan is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

A new week for library L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL #SayoniBasu is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

पुस्तकालयों के लिए हमारा 💙 कभी नहीं रुकेगा! हमा निःशुल्क, जाति-विरोधी, नारीवादी सार्वजनिक पुस्तकालयों के माध्यम से 'पढ़ने के अधिकार' के लिए धन संचय अभियान चलाते हैं Vandana Yadav एक अद्भुत पेशकश कर रही है। दान करने के लिए स्लाइड 2 पर QR code स्कैन करें या क्लिक करें www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

Support the #freelibrarymovement. Support the #righttoread. Support #grassroots, #free & #anticaste libraries. Follow our fundraiser 'Library Love'. Everyday we are posting offers made by writers, editors & art makers against which you can make donations: www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

We read because when we laugh, cry, learn, think and have revelations together, we grow stronger. We learn to question, we learn to resist and demand better things - together.

We - the Free Librarians of India - know that our communities love reading not just to pass an exam or get a job (although those are essential aspirations)...we read to know we are not alone in our struggles or triumphs.