☁️ to tell you the truth; speak, revenge: two poems, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, 12/’24.
☁️ “Future Library”: a conversation with Sohini Basak & Avrina Prabala-Joslin, 128LIT, 11/’24.
☁️ after you, i learned to plant a poem, grow a song, my poem as composed and sung by Sol-i So, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (poem from 12:22 on)
☁️ Amma kennt den Weg (German translation of my poem Amma knows the Way) Sinn und Form, 05/‘24. To the issue here.
☁️ யார் காரணம்? & உனக்கு தெரியும் என்னை பற்றி (தெரியுமா?), காலச்சுவடு. 02/2024.
☁️ after you, i learned to plant a poem, grow a song, Premiere of my poem as composed by Sol-i So, sung by Angelika Luz. Percussion: Rie Watanabe, Heimathafen Neukölln, 10/’23.
☁️ Maari, The Bombay Literary Magazine, 08/‘23.
☁️ Kadal Ondru, a poetic reading with Sinthujan Varatharajah, LitRadio Hildesheim, 06/’23.
☁️ grandpa and grandma share a face in the grandchild. a.k.a. could grandma be a homophobe if i looked like her? Stoff aus Luft FOLGE 8: DAS BESSERE LEBEN, 06,’23. Listen to it here. (I read at 00:52:54)
☁️ if poetry is a prayer, is a poem a dare? Down River Road. 05/’23.
☁️ Ein Panzer, ein Battailon, ein Banyanbaum (translation of „She‘s a Tank, a Battalion, a Banyan“ into German by Dr. Gertraude Krueger), Sinn und Form, 06/’23. Buy a copy here. Leseprobe.
☁️ a story about you and me, Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx. 05/’23.
☁️ A twin, a dream, a mise-en-scene, Stoff aus Luft Folge 04 – ABWESENHEITSNOTIZ, 07,‘22. Listen to it here. (I read at 00:14:45)
☁️ Das Paradox der uneigentlichen Archive, Sinn und Form, 02,’22. Buy a copy here.
☁️ selfportrait, 2017, Sagaya Rani, oil on linen, 196.2 x 157.5 cm, Present Tense Lit Mag, 11,’21. Buy a copy here.
☁️ The Other Life, Visual Verse (August 2021 featured writer). 08/’21.
☁️ She’s a Tank, a Battalion, a Banyan, Short Fiction Journal, 06/’21. (Winner: Short Fiction/University of Essex International Short Story Prize 2021)
☁️ குரல் / குறள் (voice / verse), Stadtsprachen Magazin. 06/2021. (in தமிழ் with English translation)
☁️ Open Mouth, Odd Mag, 04/’21.
☁️ a gaslighter sighs on the other end, Radical Art Review. 04/’21. (Runner-up: Radical Art Review Creative Writing Competition)
☁️ little words from little notebooks, leicht & Sinn. 04/2021.
☁️ In the Name of Moss (recording, starts at 36:04), read for Fruit Journal, 03/’21.
☁️ Elephants on the Balcony (excerpt), first page, 03/’21.
☁️ The Oval Canteen, Fruit Journal, 08/’20.
☁️ These are only quotidian details, Stadtsprachen Magazin. 04/2020.
☁️ The Plumage, KLAK Verlag. 01/’20. (Shortlist: Berlin Writing Prize 2019)
☁️ My Long-Armed Man, Visual Verse. 2017(?).
☁️ Playing with Fiction, Elsewhere Lit. 01/’16.
☁️ Blue Eyes, Visual Verse. 09/’16.
☁️ Growing Trees, Visual Verse. 06/’16.
☁️ Memory, Visual Verse. 05/’16.
☁️ Welcome to the Insides Exhibit, Rockland Lit. 02/’16.
☁️ 5 Poems, Sicklitmagazine. 12/’15.
☁️ Dry Fish, Visual Verse. 12/’15.
☁️ Bugged, Visual Verse. 11/’15.
☁️ Magic Eggs, Visual Verse. 10/’15
☁️ Tea and Treachery, Elsewhere Lit. 10/’15.
☁️ My 3D Brain & You are Rembrandt, New Critique. 08/’15.
☁️ Which is the bliss of solitude? Visual Verse. 07/’15.
☁️ 7.55 am, The Scribbler. 05/’15.
☁️ Did you Know? Visual Verse. 04/’15.
☁️ The Woman on My Chest, The Cadaverine. 01/’15.
☁️ Sometimes a Cold Blooded Murderer, Visual Verse. 11/’14.
☁️ Fish n’ Tea, Miso Magazine. 08/’14.
☁️ A Different Sky, Bird’s Thumb Magazine. 06/’14.
☁️ The Death of the Author (Excerpt), Tinderbox Anthology. 05/’14.
☁️ Escape, The Four Quarters Magazine. 04/’14.
☁️ The Boys We Stole, Unpublished. 10/’13.
☁️ Tribute to a Teacher, Mentor. 08/’13.
Wayfarther – Column in Coldnoon: International Journal of Travel Writing & Travelling Cultures:
☁️ Interruption. 10/’17.
☁️ Zig-Zag. 08/’17.
☁️ It all comes down to the Hand. 08/’17.
☁️ Make Some Noise. 07/’17.
☁️ Vama Veche to Durankulak and Back. 4/’17.
☁️ Made in Milan. 12/’16.
☁️ A Berghain. 10/’16.
☁️ Tom Kus in Prague, Coldnoon Travel Poetics: Diaries. 12/’14.
☁️ Fear, Coldnoon Travel Poetics: Diaries. 12/’14.
Novel
☁️ The Apple Elusionist. 978-93-80154-32-9. Virgin Leaf Books, an imprint of Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd. 2010.
“Two Poets Write” is a poetry project undertaken by Avrina and a friend Alice Yousef.
from a very long time ago — almost another life:
Alice and Avrina, residing in two different parts of the world write poems about the spaces that surround them. Every week, they write on a similar theme, a similar word. That of space. Of crevices, corners, chimneys. The air they breathe and the sky above them. But how different are thoughts and spaces that snake into the words these poets in countries far off write?
அவ்ரீனா AVRINA, poet and writer 