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Turning points and Other Poems
By Kashiana Singh Turning points silverfish darning holes in language doppelganger the caesura between death and I repotting I dig deep into dirt standing atop a disemboweled earth many limbed durga moon shapes remaking of old habits sleeping town a window lights up at dusk Menopausal the insect inside its amber, a womb sharpness of tongue, an unleashing weeping wisteria bleeds blue,…
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eunoiareview · 8 months
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Inventory
I read about this woman, for 7 years she photographed every object in her home, documenting details, down to dance of dust mites, crisp onion skins, connecting bitter receding days to crunchy nights, uncooked dishes, brass rhythm of bared pasts, sipping at her own presence, stars swallowing silence, receiving presence of frayed walls, eye to eye, fingers to hands, thighs to tears, smiles to…
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markulyseas · 1 year
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Kashiana Singh's chapbook Crushed Anthills by Yavanika Press is a journey through 10 cities. Her newest full-length collection, Woman by the Door was released in Feb 2022 with Apprentice House Press.
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Book Review: Woman by the door by Kashiana Singh
Book Review: Woman by the door by Kashiana Singh
I’m reading ‘Women by the door’ by my virtual friend and poet, Kashiana Singh. I bought this book sometime in March and I read a few poems as soon as I got the book. I loved the ones I read so much, that I decided I would read one a day so I could savour each poem, allow it to marinate in my heart and my head and see which ones remained with me long after I had read them and then accordingly…
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moastories · 2 years
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In the image of my mother
By: Kashiana Singh
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In the image of my mother
I can bask in the sunshine of
of watching my mother halt
her day—
after she was done carving
meaning into our lives
as she etched our days
with syntax
of lunch boxes
with storytelling
under whirring fans
with petulant warmth
of a fresh casserole
with newly learned
dessert platters, sweet
with nights offered on
her lap, birth scents
with lessons crafted
from filigree of aches
with mystery found
in garnet drops, shapely
with clicking tic tac
of long knitting needles
with bookshelves
encased in first words
I remember relishing a few moments
of crying into her diaphragm
listening—
her voice a clasp around our lives
her hair swirled in a prosaic bun
shaped like a cloud, introspecting
she came alive, play-acting scenes
from famous silent movies
I half remember relishing her voice
sashaying into our bland rooms as
it hummed, sang, scolded or stayed
just stayed. silently.
I indulge, in remnants of her fading image
palpable, the pot boils over as if rebuking
me, I roll up my
hair into a rare bun
her syllables inhabiting me
from an unnamed distance.
About the author: When Kashiana is not writing, she lives to embody her TEDx talk theme of Work as Worship into her every day. She currently serves as Managing Editor for Poets Reading the News. Her newest full-length collection, Woman by the Door is coming out in 2022 with Apprentice House Press. 
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theotherpages · 4 years
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World Poetry Day 2020 (plus a day)
Well, it is the day after World Poetry Day (WPD), but I think we can still mark the event. We're a little over a week from starting our April essay series, although, since so many people are in quarantine around the world in one form or another, we may start a little early to give them something else to think about besides infectious disease statistics and bloviating faces on the telly. Please, by the way, observe all recommendations for social distancing and cleanliness. I have been watching the statistics and more effort is needed.
In recognition of WPD, I would be remiss if I did not point you toward something worth thoughtful reading. 
I will take this opportunity to highlight an article featuring three poems by one of this year's contributors, Kashiana Singh, in the April 2019 edition of Modern Poetry.
https://www.modernliterature.org/2019/04/15/poems-kashiana-singh/
While the first two pieces are perhaps more topical in light of common fears and confinement, I suggest the third poem, Coexistence, whose atmospherics and observations may take you away from your worries of the moment, and immerse you in a place of complex, richly sensory existence elsewhere.
--Steve
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thecrownbaltimore · 4 years
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Our bartender KJ has a cocktail segment for The 4th Annual CM.Ball streaming live on Youtube TOMORROW and SUNDAY (9/05 + 9/06) from 6pm-12am. The Ball is an entertainment, arts & technology event that also takes a stance to educate on health, environmental and social topics. This pro black, pro LGBTQ+ & pro hip hop project also aims to stimulate the economy around small/local business, artists and makers. Featuring cashliss, histo, hoteps, kaywon, miss kam, uni, mack scott, josh stokes, Laissi, kashiana, trilla kay, mr 14th, PLANET, tromac, Chris Cassius, whocamille, life on planets, rovo, rocketpalooza, and strange fam . Join us TOMORROW at 6pm: https://youtu.be/AlPTvMqn1S0 👑 #cmball https://www.instagram.com/p/CEvOcdgpHym/?igshid=jzil5qd6wrfb
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954photo · 3 years
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NPM Virtual Poetry Festival at The Other Pages
Coming in April, our annual poetry series with articles by Bob Blair, Kashiana Singh, (Nelson) Howard Miller, and Steve Spanoudis.
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To take a peek at last year's series:
https://theotherpages.tumblr.com/archive/2020/4
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angeltrain · 3 years
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"Normal Haiku" by Kashiana Singh https://wp.me/p7dbSF-8Hh via @rattlemag
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shereewrites · 4 years
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Happy Thursday, Friends. I wanted to share a poem, one if three just published in 2020 Setu Mag Western Voices. The new issue is free to read by visiting the link below. https://www.setumag.com/2020/04/Western-Voices-2020-Outlar.html There are forty-five incredible poets who contributed their work to this issue. ❤❤❤❤ Adrian Cedric Rogers, Alan Britt, Alicia Mathias, Alyssa Trivett, Amanda McLeod, Ann Christine Tabaka, Anthony Howling, Beth Gordon, Božidar Vasiljević, Brian Rihlmann, Bruce Boston, Carl Scharwath, Chani Zwibel Butler, Danijela Trajković, Donna Snyder, Don Beukes, Douglas Cole, Duane Vorhees, Dustin Pickering, Elisabeth Ferrell Horan, Gary Lundy, Heath Brougher, Hedy Sabbagh Habra, J.K. Winters, John Drudge, Kashiana Singh, Kathy Ellis, Lb Sedlacek, Lauren Roberts, Lee Ballentine, Linda Imbler, María Castro Dominguez, Marianne Szlyk, Mari Deweese, Matt Duggan, Mela Blust, Michael Lee Johnson, Michael Burke, Mihaela Melnic, Mysti Milwee, Robert Maddox-Harle, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Sheree La Puma, and Z.M. Wise. (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_5PbTMhVYR/?igshid=1rk3ykxt0wrwf
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bindu-krishnan · 4 years
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World Idli Day and the Idli-Snob
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My friend, Chandresh had posted about today being the World Idli Day in our WhatsApp group and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to write about idlis.
First, a dedication – this post is dedicated to Kashiana, who is the only sardarni known to me who loves Idli more than south Indians. 🙂 I think of Kashiana every time I eat idlis.
Second – I have to confess that I am an Idli-snob. My maternal…
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bestpoetrywebsite · 5 years
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Souvenirs • Kashiana Singh http://dlvr.it/R1w4vc • Best Poetry http://dlvr.it/R1w4vc
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oddballmagazine · 4 years
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Poem by Kashiana Singh
Poem by Kashiana Singh
  Mr. Zuckerberg, you don’t know?
It was a simple yes or no question you stuttered and muttered                                    while the ticker on your page barely kept up with the silence pauses
she had you for dinner and also, for dessert that congresswoman                                          her verified profile counts a spike in fans, we know for sure her net likes, are people who do…
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theotherpages · 3 years
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2021 NPM Number 27 - JoJo Rabbit and Rainer Maria Rilke
You can listen to the podcast version of this series on Spotify, ITunes, Anchor, (https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis) Look for the podcast titled National Poetry Month at the Other Pages.
Here is the direct link to the audio for this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/20201-NPM-Number-27---JoJo-Rabbit-and-Rainer-Maria-Rilke-e100ihe
Welcome to National Poetry Month at The Other Pages. Today’s article is by Poet and Contributing Editor Kashiana Singh, and unfortunately, as she is slightly under the weather today, it’s me you’ll be listening to on the podcast, instead of her soothingly thoughtful voice. My apologies. To quote Theo Metro, “It can’t be helped.”
JoJo Rabbit and Rainer Maria Rilke
By Kashiana Singh
There is a reason Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) is considered one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets.
Born in Prague, he published his first book of poems, Leben und Lieber, at age 19. In 1897 he met Lou Andreas-Salomé, the talented and spirited daughter of a Russian army officer, who influenced him deeply. Rainer is best known for such collections as Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien) and Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus), but also the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge). Then, there’s also Letters to a Young Poet (Briefe an einen jungen Dichter), published after his passing.
His words are touchstones that other artists, from authors to poets to sculptors to filmmakers - often reference - words that are still relevant today. And could there be a message more relevant than love enabling humanity and love also being about setting free. Jojo Rabbit (https://youtu.be/tL4McUzXfFI), was a movie that was also a poem that touched souls with its poignancy. It was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
The central character of the movie is a fatherless 10-year-old boy coming of age in WWII. I do think the central character of the movie is also the poem itself “Going to the limits of your longing” (https://onbeing.org/poetry/go-to-the-limits-of-your-longing/)
Go to the limits of your longing
Rainer Maria Rilke
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
The essence of this poem, and the broader essence of Rilke’s poetry is what the movie has captured with nearly close perfection. Layering on top of that the turbulent times that our collective humanity has gone through over the last year, and that makes Jojo Rabbit and Rilke even more resonant and relevant.
The movie, Rilke’s holistic work, and this poem specifically is a totem, a guide, a spiritual map. It serves this purpose because of how simply, yet how aptly it weaves poetry into the journey of a young boy going through phases of accepting vs resisting emotion.
The film also captures another one of Rilke’s famous line’s that if you love someone, you must set them free. The boy has to learn that to love someone means to allow them their freedom to become truly themselves, rather than confine them to the boxed perception we have of them.
When I first watched Jojo Rabbit, by director Taika Waititi, it reminded me that the most tragic victims of the war, regardless of nationality, were the children. The other most striking part of the movie were the two visual motifs - the butterfly imagery and the mother’s distinctive pair of shoes. The final and personally to me the most lasting impact of course was the quote at the end of the movie -
Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final.
Inspiring and comforting at the same time, at the end of the movie these lines left the audience in tears. They communicated that there is no end – there is more to come, that highs and lows and ebbs and flows are not permanent. There is a Buddhism present in these lines, there is emptiness and fullness, there is birth and death, there are moments of truth.
Rilke’s poetry evokes and gleans from the two deepest emotions that humanity experiences. The exhilarations of love and the experience of loss are delivered to us by Rilke in a palette infused with images, sounds, and textures. Written more than a century ago, they remain relevant and universal both in their form and their content because of how they ground the reader in the simplicity of the message, how they carry the reader into recognizing the overwhelming present emotion as temporary and moving into the next fluid state of universal passage of time.
The limits of your longing is as much prayer as it is a poem. It has an unebbing quality to its writing that illuminates in a lyrically intense way that is trademark Rilke. This poem is from Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, published in 1905. Besides everything that has been said about this poem, what I take away as a poet from this specific writing is the juxtaposition – how he uses language and feeling to demonstrate the contrasts - beauty and terror, flame and shadow, limits of longing and no feeling is final.
Back to Jojo Rabbit, there is the juxtaposition there that evolves from the poem to the movie with the theme itself which is a setting of comedy but the core reflecting on life and acceptance. The large screen may be lighthearted, the character maybe a young boy but it is juxtaposed at its heart with poetic essence of life-learning and wisdom.
Whether we listen to his words as a spiritual voice or just a human voice, it is a necessary voice, a relevant call to go to the limits of our longing: with an acceptance of the tension between the beauty and terror of existence that walks hand in hand around us each day.
“Embody me,” says Rilke. Live my memory in that darkness. Be my hands, be my feet, be my look of love to the world. “Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in.”
Thank you for listening – I hope poetry is helping restore kindness in your lives. Keep listening, You can find us on Facebook, tumblr and on our website – The Other Pages. Org
Sharing is caring, so if you enjoyed this episode and want to listen to more please tune in for more throughout the National Poetry Month and share with others too
Once again this is Steve Spanoudis pretending to be Kashiana Singh, thanks to Kashiana for writing today’s article. Her book, Shelling Peanuts and Stringing words is available from Impish Lass press on Amazon and other outlets.
You can find more articles, and more poetry at http://theotherpages.org, or The Other Pages on Facebook or Tumblr.
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thecrownbaltimore · 4 years
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The 4th Annual CM.BALL is streaming live on Youtube this Saturday and Sunday (9/05 + 9/06) from 6pm-12am. The Ball is an entertainment, arts & technology event that also takes a stance to educate on health, environmental and social topics. This pro black, pro LGBTQ+ & pro hip hop project also aims to stimulate the economy around small/local business, artists and makers. Featuring cashliss, histo, hoteps, kaywon, miss kam, uni, mack scott, josh stokes, Laissi, kashiana, trilla kay, mr 14th, PLANET, tromac, Chris Cassius, whocamille, life on planets, rovo, rocketpalooza, and strange fam! The Crown will also have a cocktail segment provided by our bartender KJ!!! You can join the stream beginning at 6pm on Saturday here: https://youtu.be/AlPTvMqn1S0 👑 #cmball https://www.instagram.com/p/CEpJf2epbCp/?igshid=5utq2y4mbv9y
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theotherpages · 3 years
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30 Essays on The Best Words in the Best Order, 2021 Edition
We did it. Thirty articles in just over 30 days, on many different aspects of poetry, from themes and contrasts to structure, meter, and rhyme, to metaphors and patterns, to breaking things down and building them back up, from expansive views to introspection. I hope you had a chance to enjoy at least some of the articles. If you didn’t, just a reminder that all 30 are archived on https://facebook.com/theotherpages and https://theotherpages.tumblr.com. I will comment that more of you may be Facebook users, but Tumbler is way better at indexing and presenting than Facebook. The Other Pages is also beautifully presented on Tumblr.
Sincere thanks to Kashiana Singh and Nelson Howard Miller for their help. We were without the services of Bob and Robin this year. Nelson actually did his articles while recovering from Covid, and Kashiana while moving across the country and participating in her amazing stream of other events.
The podcasts were a new experience for me, though Kashiana had done it before. They are archived on https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis.
For the record, while tallies continue, we will probably finish up with over 12,000 reads this year, and over 1,200 reactions and comments on Facebook. The most read article featured Maria Nazos and a poem about domestic abuse. Second place was a poem by Ladan Osman on a child’s perspective of racial disparities. Third place was Kashiana’s commentary on Laila Chatti.
This year’s pieces also focused more heavily on contemporary poets. This was educational and highly enjoyable for me, including the opportunity to listen to, meet, talk with, and even get to know some of the poets featured. Please note that the “other” Kashiana, Kashiana Sharma, does not exist. She is one of the virtual residents of The Republic of Dreams.
Yes, we’ll probably do this again next year (“Yay! We’re being renewed for another season!”), but I think I’ll need to draft some additional editorial help.If you’d like to volunteer, let me know.
A catalog of this year’s episodes is included below. If you’ve liked any of this, please SHARE on your favorite social media platform.
--Steve Spanoudis.
1. Denise Levertov - The Room
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-01---Denise-Levertov-etm13r
2. Molly Peacock - The Flaw
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-02---Molly-Peacock-ettvmq
3. Terence Degnan - the yes no
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-03-Terence-Degnan-eu2bvk
4. Vassar Miller - Without Ceremony - article by Nelson Howard Miller
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-03-Vassar-Miller-eu49ut
5. Ladan Osman - The Key
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-05-Ladan-Osman-eu5vmv
6. Pat Mora - Curandera
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-06-Pat-Mora-eu65og
7. Maria Nazos - Waitress in a Small Town Seaside Tavern
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-07-Maria-Nazos-eubgl1
8. Hayden Carruth - The Ravine - article by Nelson Howard Miller
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-08-Hayden-Carruth-eublto
9. Eaven Borland - Becoming Anne Bradstreet
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-09-Eavan-Borland-eucpuc
10. Tishani Doshi - The Day We Went to the Sea
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-10-Tishani-Doshi-eul1fc
11. Yolanda Wisher - sonnet w/ cooking lexicon
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-11-Yolanda-Wisher-eun0hl
12. Laila Chatti - Deluge - article by Kashiana Singh
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-12-Leila-Chatti-eun4c5
13. Tina Cane - Some Kinds of Fire
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-01---Tina-Cane--Anna-Akhmatova-euriuc
14. Richard Blanco - La Florida Room
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-14---Richard-Blanco-eutlfj
15. Michael Hamburger - Grape and Nut Letter - article by Nelson Howard Miller
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-15-Michael-Hamburger-euv861
16. Ted Kooser - In the Basement of the Goodwill Store
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-16---Ted-Kooser-ev0jd3
17. Keorapetse William Kgositsile - Anguish Longer Than Sorrow
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-17-Keorapetse-William-Kgositsile-ev40s
18. Melissa Balmain - Love Poem
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-18-Melissa-Balmain-ev653a
19. Kazim Ali - The Voice of Sheila Chandra - article by Kashiana Singh
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-19-The-gleaming-work-of-Kazim-Ali---The-Voice-of-Sheila-Chandra-ev7kld
20. Nora Dauenhauer - Amelia’s FIrst Ski Run
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-20-Nora-Marks-Dauenhauer-ev8fum
21. Vona Groarke - Still Life in Marble
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-21-Vona-Groarke-evaoi4
22. Kashiana Sharma (f) - The View from Above
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-22-Kashiana-Sharma-fictional-evek5o
23. Fred Marchant - This is What the Mind Does
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-23-Fred-Marchant-evism2
24. Michael Torres - Because My Brother Knows Why They Call Them “County Blues,” but Won’t Tell Me Why
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-24-Michael-Torres-evlgs6
25. Khaled Mattawa - Bedtime Reading for the Unborn Child
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-25-Khaled-Mattawa-evn34c
26. Rita Dove - Dusting
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-26---Rita-Dove-evpoaa
27. Rainer Maria Rilke - Go to the limits of your longing - article by Kashiana Singh
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/20201-NPM-27---JoJo-Rabbit-and-Rainer-Maria-Rilke-e100ihe
28. Naomi Shihab Nye - You are Your Own State Department
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-28-Naomi-Shihab-Nye-e104bk7
29. Yonatan Berg - Unity
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-29-Yonatan-Berg-e106cpl
30. Jane Hirshfield - Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-30-Jane-Hirshfield-e106jed
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