Huffington Post Interview

Enjoyed talking with Catalina Sofia Dansberger Duque from the Huffington Post. She asked some good questions. Excerpts from the telephone interview are posted by Catalina on the Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/catalina-sofia-dansberger-duque/post_9687_b_7826144.html?utm_hp_ref=arts&ir=Arts

When you write

When you write, suddenly everything has meaning. As if the writing life has afforded you this lens that brightens and highlights the world. I go around with this highlighter, trees turn fluorescent green, words in books, people's faces, I am standing on top of a chrome hillside, the distant world, engaged.

Geography, Nature, Brutality, Family

These days I've been thinking about the civilisational forces that lead to the creation of cities. Something about the power human beings exercise over nature and space is mirrored in the brutality within families. The beauty, the community, the order, that's for another conversation.

UNTITLED*

The light is dim
The cars speed silently outside on the tar roads

The light is dim
The cat moves silently through your house of ice

The cat is white
The light too dim to make it out against the white washed walls

The light too dim
To watch the street, to see the phantom cars

To know that I
Watch you in the dark, I watch you, father

As you eat your
Dinner, eight years you have eaten without me.


*From my chapbook, Towers of Silence, published in 2004 by Aark Arts.

Nourishment: 802 Days

802 days, 120,000 words, 400 pages
802 breakfasts, dinners, lunches packed or plated
1604 snacks, school days stacked on soccer fields
My teeth brushed 1604+ times, theirs too
Sex, crunches, bike 70 miles a week
Days of tears less than a dozen
Moments of joy almost every day
0 full nights of sleep
The writing life is the nourishing life

BPJ tweets: Congrats to our Pushcart nominees

BPJ tweets: Congrats to our Pushcart nominees, @LeeyaMehta, Matt Salyer, @Danez_Smif, Mathew Kelsey, Ashley Davidson, and Brian Komei Dempster.

See the poem The Abduction here: http://www.bpj.org/poems/mehta_abduction.pdf

See the accompanying essay on the BPJ blog and comments here: http://blog.bpj.org/2014/05/leeya-mehta-on-abduction.html

The poem recording: http://www.bpj.org/poems/mehta_abduction.mp3 

Note that some of these links are no longer live as the BPJ web site has changed. 

New Poem: Metal Anniversary

Metal Anniversary appears in the new edition of Beltway Poetry Quarterly:

http://www.beltwaypoetry.com/metal-anniversary/

Interview: Finding Balance through Poetry and Prose

See an interview by Lisa O’Donoghue-Lindy on Career2.0blog.net

Leeya Mehta: Finding Balance through Poetry and Prose