Two poems for the Poetry Salon by Priya N Iyer Boxes Amazon box at the door A bright red box of Legos Orange white from donut shop To go coffee handle- top Gift boxes in bright paper Boxes ship your furniture Crayons, mittens, winter wear Boxes are just everywhere. But There is something, you cannot…
Author: Pooja Garg
For Fall Poetry Event: An Ode to My Preening
Two poems for the Poetry Salon by Nidhi Thakur Multiple sets of semi-precious dangling earrings, Colorful and silver-lined, I hoist a pair of you to my ears For the purpose your color serves today, matching, coordinated to my clothes, service until death, the danglers say. The borders of your appearance will always be protected. Silver,…
Call for Submissions to Winter Issue 2020 (Now Closed)
The Woman Inc. is now a quarterly magazine! We will be featuring articles, news items, interviews, poems, short stories and art. So go ahead and contribute! Our Winter 2020 issue will feature the theme of Closure. It could mean anything to you – weather, relationships, end of journeys – physical and metaphorical. We leave it…
TWI Writerly: On Nayomi Munaweera
Ariadne Wolf I’m sitting here, November 2017, in the raucous Mills College tea shop with Nayomi Munaweera, my MFA workshop professor here for the past four months. Bright-eyed and clever, Munaweera’s classes involve loud outbursts of laughter, dissection of modern politics, and sensitive yet probing critiques. Prone to disconcertingly penetrating smiles, bright lipstick and better clothes than her students, Munaweera makesfor a terrifying…
TWI Emerging Poet: Whitney Roberts Hill
Parthenogenesis Siddhartha Gautama was born from his mother’s side. In lean times, plants so split. The pup of a new one tucked like a hexadactyly under her petal skirts. The seeds that are made of one woman alone in the desert; no bees, no man. Just a copy of her own genes. Just a…
TWI Poetry: On Ageing
LOVERS’ ATLAS You ask more of me my friend Almost lover More of my body but a lot Less of my weary heart Beaten heart Heart sucked dry of hope What do I have to give you Save a map of shrivelled scars Sprawled haywire across The breadth of my ageing body Not beautiful and…
TWI Empowerment Series #Gaslighting
At office. So he didn’t touch, but wanted to. Made no advances but expected to be pandered to. And when faced with resolute indifference, made things difficult. Promotions, pay rises, small perks – nothing came one’s way. To the point one left. Not a MeToo story. Not the binary of yes or no, happened or…
Nari Shakti award goes first time ever to a stand-up comedian
On the International Women’s Day, as Vasu Primlani received the Nari Shakti Award from Indian President, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, she became the first stand-up comedian in India to get that award. It is important to note that of her many achievements, Vasu wears this badge of honor as a stand-up comic, that slender group of…
Poetry Series: The Rant
[Art by Sakshi Bhatia: ‘Suffering’] by Sakshi Bhatia Hear her presenting it here. Dear, Mystic men. Fuck the process, halt this recess, I undress, over dress, ill fitting shoes biting me. what am I doing? poetry, poem, recitation in a fancy club. on the filthy streets of a fucked up nation. Intense security checks…
TWI Empowerment: How to pack an Emergency Backpack if you are Domestic Violence Victim
Pooja Garg In the end, If they knew where it was All of them would go home – And yet, home is where the danger lies for a lot of us. Domestic violence continues to be the elephant in the room and the dialog on the subject remains sparse. Not the least because survivors do…
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