"Reclaiming Verse, setting poetry free"

Reclaiming Verse, setting poetry free : is an open mic poetry event. It seeks to create an environment where everybody feels comfortable to share stories, because the idea is to look at poetry and people as neither make sense in isolation. The floor will be open to all styles of poetry, with no linguistic barriers ideally creating a situation where a wide spectrum of stories can be told, and heard.

This will be a safe space for the poetry and the stories, that have been silenced by the overarching noise created by people around us. We invite queer persons, feminists, straight allies and everybody else who wants to talk poetry - to come and share their stories with us. With each piece of poetry, let's reclaim verse. With each story, lets set poetry free.

We want to engage with you in a discourse around fluidity of gender and sexuality. To understand that our identities are often constructed in immutable casts that then relate to difficulties that we face. To celebrate the diversity that exists within us. To protest the periodic violence that many among us face on a regular basis. And to reclaim the militant activist space that we seem to have lost. This event is to specifically protest and oppose the transphobic violence that has been happening in Hyderabad, and to visibly agitate against it armed with poetry.

All are welcome.