Author: Diligent Candy

  • Sita Considers Her Rebellions by Vandana Khanna – Guernica 

    Sita Considers Her Rebellions by Vandana Khanna – Guernica 

    She remembers from inside the story, inside the forest’s heart (a flush of green): a dowry of twigs. Tree trunks as thick as lies. When she is allowed, she misses herself, covets the clean corners where her bones meet, the dull pulse of her tongue on his. All those misplaced stars, a misery she can’t…

  • Graphic Novels in the Classroom

    Graphic Novels in the Classroom

    Experiencing Fun Home by Alison Bechdel in Prof. dr. D.M. Oostdijk’s class, October 15, 2015. By Amrita Das “What’s lost in translation is the complexity of loss itself. In the same box where I found the photo of Roy, there’s one of Dad at about the same age” (Bechdel FH 120). Alison’s Bechdel’s graphic novel…

  • National Bird of the Netherlands

    National Bird of the Netherlands

    Source: National Bird of the Netherlands

  • Falling for Archie Comics’ JUGHEAD #1

    Falling for Archie Comics’ JUGHEAD #1

    “So after three months of feeling him out, I decided to break up with Archie. Well, I decided to break up with Archie, the recent reboot of the decades-running comic series from Archie Comics…..” Source: Falling for Archie Comics’ JUGHEAD #1 Jughead has always been a favorite. It is news such as this that feels…

  • ‘I would have written on Kashmir even if there were 40 other novels on the subject’ | Tehelka

    ‘I would have written on Kashmir even if there were 40 other novels on the subject’ | Tehelka

    Mirza Waheed talks about how his memories of life in the Valley have influenced him as a storyteller Source: ‘I would have written on Kashmir even if there were 40 other novels on the subject’ | Tehelka – Investigations, Latest News, Politics, Analysis, Blogs, Culture, Photos, Videos, Podcasts

  • Reading Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s Jo Beet Gayi So Baat Gayi
  • Poem Unlimited, Augsburg

    Poem Unlimited, Augsburg

    Over the weekend I attended and spoke at the Poem Unlimited Conference at Augsburg. The venue, the Augsburg University, has a beautiful campus. The trees were in Autumn hues. I was narrated the story of a duck family in the University pond. A ledge was removed from one of the campus buildings so to lessen…

  • What Have You Lost? 

    What Have You Lost? 

     A ghazal by David Keefe. From poems selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for What Have You Lost?   

  • How to Draw a Perfect Circle by Terrance Hayes : Poetry Magazine

    How to Draw a Perfect Circle by Terrance Hayes : Poetry Magazine

    I can imitate the spheres of the model’s body, her head, / Her mouth, the chin she rests at the bend of her elbow / But nothing tells me how to make the pupils spiral / Source: How to Draw a Perfect Circle by Terrance Hayes : Poetry Magazine “An assailant is a man with…