Earlier this year, I hosted a poetry workshop for a small group in partnership with Svami.
Here are a few blackout poems that emerged from the workshop:
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"I gently picked up a letter, which is the heaviest piece of paper considering each alphabet coming together like a jigsaw puzzle to form something so raw, with each superscript dot on the letter "I" in a different way. You see, a letter can't be perfect either, but nevertheless, it's real. It's so real, that I sealed it with a poem about letters, my first erasure poem, now that that is done, I hope I gather the first ounces of courage to send this letter to you." -Prachi Pramodh
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-Sneha Das