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Nuala Watt

Poetry Koan

Emily Dickinson

Wallace Stevens

Mary Oliver

Robert Frost

George Herbert

Elizabeth Bishop

Anne Carson

Mary Jean Chan

Etgar Keret

Kaveh Akbar

Marie Howe

Richard Scott

Lydia Davis

Sylvia Plath

Tara Miller

OwlTail

Khairani Barokka

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

This week in the pharmacy we have the writer, poet, and artist KHAIRANI BAROKKA! All the poems we prescribe and talk about in this episode can be found here: http://bit.ly/2klT8AG KHAIRANI BAROKKA was born  in Jakarta and currently lives in London. Among her honours, she was an NYU Tisch Departmental Fellow for her masters, Emerging Writers Festival’s (AUS) Inaugural International Writer-In-Residence (2013), and Indonesia’s first Writer-In-Residence at Vermont Studio Center (2011). Okka is the writer/performer/producer of, among others, a deaf-accessible, solo poetry/art show, Eve and Mary Are Having Coffee. It premiered at Edinburgh Fringe 2014 as Indonesia’s only representative, with a grant from HIVOS. She was recognized in 2014 by UNFPA as one of Indonesia’s “Inspirational Young Leaders Driving Social Change”, for highly prolific, pioneering international work in inclusive, accessible arts. Published internationally in anthologies and journals, Okka has presented work extensively, in ten countries, is a frequent public speaker, and has been awarded six residencies and various grants. She is author and illustrator of poetry-art book Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis Press, 2016), co-editor with Ng Yi-Sheng of HEAT: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology (Fixi, 2016), and co-editor, with Sandra Alland and Daniel Sluman, of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press, May 2017). A PhD-by-practice researcher at Goldsmiths, as an LPDP Scholar in Visual Cultures, Okka is currently working on a book and visual works. Her first full-length poetry collection, Rope, is currently out with Nine Arches Press (October 2017). [Theme music for the podcast is by Aretha Franklin played by the wonderful coversart &amp; also Ahmad Jamal from his album Tranquility]

This week in the pharmacy we have the writer, poet, and artist <a href="http://www.khairanibarokka.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KHAIRANI BAROKKA</a>! All the poems we prescribe and talk about in this episode can be found here: <a href="http://bit.ly/2klT8AG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2klT8AG</a> KHAIRANI BAROKKA was born  in Jakarta and currently lives in London. Among her honours, she was an NYU Tisch Departmental Fellow for her masters, Emerging Writers Festival’s (AUS) Inaugural International Writer-In-Residence (2013), and Indonesia’s first Writer-In-Residence at Vermont Studio Center (2011). Okka is the writer/performer/producer of, among others, a deaf-accessible, solo poetry/art show, Eve and Mary Are Having Coffee. It premiered at Edinburgh Fringe 2014 as Indonesia’s only representative, with a grant from HIVOS. She was recognized in 2014 by UNFPA as one of Indonesia’s “Inspirational Young Leaders Driving Social Change”, for highly prolific, pioneering international work in inclusive, accessible arts. Published internationally in anthologies and journals, Okka has presented work extensively, in ten countries, is a frequent public speaker, and has been awarded six residencies and various grants. She is author and illustrator of poetry-art book Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis Press, 2016), co-editor with Ng Yi-Sheng of HEAT: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology (Fixi, 2016), and co-editor, with Sandra Alland and Daniel Sluman, of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press, May 2017). A PhD-by-practice researcher at Goldsmiths, as an LPDP Scholar in Visual Cultures, Okka is currently working on a book and visual works. Her first full-length poetry collection, <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rope-Khairani-Barokka/dp/1911027239/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1507033946&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=rope+barokka" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rope</a>, is currently out with Nine Arches Press (October 2017). [Theme music for the podcast is by Aretha Franklin played by the wonderful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/coversart" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">coversart</a> &amp; also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNbhyjaEs9A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ahmad Jamal</a> from his album Tranquility]

Episode 18: Khairani Barokka prescribes THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha + RECEIVING MY POEMS IN BRAILLE by Nuala Watt