Bring along a poem you have struggled with and Jerry Pinto and the Hive Mind will take a look. It is an exercise in trust, yes, and an exercise in vulnerability but  we shall all rely on the kindness of strangers. What you might take away from the workshop is a sense of what might be wrong with the poem, what might be right with it or just the experience.    Prerequisite  Participants need to bring along a previously written poem    Fee 1000/- per participant    Jerry Pinto has two books of poems to his credit: “Asylum an Read More..

What can you expect out of this workshop?  1. Why do we read?  2. Why poetry?  3. The word and the world   Jerry Pinto is a well-known poet, writer, editor and translator. He has an LLB from Government Law College, Mumbai and a degree in the humanities from Elphinstone College. He has written Em and the Big Hoom, a novel that won him The Crossword Prize, the Hindu Lit for Life Award and the Sahitya Akademi Award. In 2016, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Award for Fiction from Yale, USA. His next novel Murder in Mahim won the Valley of Words Award for Fict Read More..