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Escapril: How a poetry writing challenge curates community

The Instagram account for Escapril posts all 30 prompts for the month ahead of time, and the poet is only required to write by taking inspiration from said prompts

Poetry, my useless weapon

As bird flocks take wing at the rattle of Sten guns

A fugitive

It was noontime when I arrived home the sun was shining bright

POETRY / Dhaka (2007-)

I was nine years of age the first time I set eyes on a Dhaka street. I received my first welcome from a group of beggars tapping on my car window.

POETRY / Placing Places

Someday, I will write about those places, the cities, monuments, and faces.

POETRY / Love won’t you love me

Break me into numbers and spirals, and blood and flesh make me all that I don't wish to be.

Defining Haiku poetry with poet Quamrul Hassan

Haiku is a poem in three lines that captures the image of a single moment in the reader’s mind.

POETRY / Maa

Delicate like butterfly wings, And yet as strong as boulders Her mind is a divine place, Eternal peace on her shoulders. 

POETRY / Favourite season

Showers and storms give way To a surge of sunlight A fragrance of hope floats in On morning breeze

April 14, 2023
April 14, 2023

Escapril: How a poetry writing challenge curates community

The Instagram account for Escapril posts all 30 prompts for the month ahead of time, and the poet is only required to write by taking inspiration from said prompts

March 26, 2023
March 26, 2023

A fugitive

It was noontime when I arrived home the sun was shining bright

March 26, 2023
March 26, 2023

Poetry, my useless weapon

As bird flocks take wing at the rattle of Sten guns

February 11, 2023
February 11, 2023

Dhaka (2007-)

I was nine years of age the first time I set eyes on a Dhaka street. I received my first welcome from a group of beggars tapping on my car window.

January 28, 2023
January 28, 2023

Love won’t you love me

Break me into numbers and spirals, and blood and flesh make me all that I don't wish to be.

January 28, 2023
January 28, 2023

Placing Places

Someday, I will write about those places, the cities, monuments, and faces.

January 23, 2023
January 23, 2023

Defining Haiku poetry with poet Quamrul Hassan

Haiku is a poem in three lines that captures the image of a single moment in the reader’s mind.

January 7, 2023
January 7, 2023

Favourite season

Showers and storms give way To a surge of sunlight A fragrance of hope floats in On morning breeze

January 7, 2023
January 7, 2023

Maa

Delicate like butterfly wings, And yet as strong as boulders Her mind is a divine place, Eternal peace on her shoulders. 

December 31, 2022
December 31, 2022

Decaying youth

Seek if you must If you believe the truth shall set you free And then? We heal.