My Home is Dissent: Book Launch & Poetry Workshop

My Home is Dissent is a luminous poetry collection by Pooja Ugrani that constructs verse as one might build a home—brick by tender brick, with the mortar of memory, desire, and defiance. Published by Poetrywala, an imprint of Paperwall Publishing, this collection moves fluidly between the everyday and the elemental, where the domestic becomes a site of quiet resistance and reimagining. Ugrani's dissent hums through acts of nurture and refusal, through the courage to remain soft in a world that demands armour. Her poems measure the dimensions of love, labour, and loss through the delicate instruments of memory, architecture, and motherhood. Formally supple and sensorial, cerebral and sensuous, her work folds the architectural and the emotional into one continuum. This world of words writes of labour, love, and dissent as acts of design—as deliberate gestures that hold the self together. Praised by acclaimed authors including Sampurna Chattarji, Maithreyi Karnoor, and poet Srividya Sivakumar, this collection participates physically in the making of poetry, not only through language but also through the palpability of the body's experiences. Here is a poet testing her wings, where dissension may well be a heartbeat away from dissection. It is currently out on Amazon for sale: https://amzn.in/d/0gY3DXTf

About the Poet: Pooja Ugrani, architect, teacher and mother, lives her life in two cities, Bombay and Bangalore.

Her poems are included in the anthologies The Shape of a Poem - The Red River Book of Contemporary Erotic Poetry, The Kali project anthology - Invoking the Goddess within/ Indian Women's Voices by Indie Blue Publishing LLC, the Yearbook of Indian Poetry 2022 and Po'try, an anthology of Bangalore poets. Her poem, Gundalamma Palem was shortlisted as one of the forty poems out of over thousand international entries for the Alpine Fellowship 2023. Her poetry has been published in The Punch Magazine, Cafe Dissensus Everyday, Mom Egg Review (New York), Hākārā, Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine (Hong Kong), The Tiger Moth Review (Singapore), The Alipore Post, The Woman Inc - TWI Poetry, and the RIC Journal (Jaipur-Paris). Ugrani was invited to read at the Bangalore Poetry Festival and by the Champaca bookstore at the Bangalore International Center on the occasion of International Womens' Day. She was a featured poet at Tuesdays with the Bard at Urban Solace, Ulsoor, in December 2019. While she is relaxing, Pooja Ugrani explores origami with children and adults, sings Bollywood songs and dreams of a trek in the Himalayas.

Age: 15 and above