Rupi Kaur

In this episode of the Harvest Series podcast with Rose Claverie, poet and performer Rupi Kaur shares her journey from childhood in Punjab to becoming a global literary voice. She reflects on how trauma, resilience, and feminism shape her work. Rupi reads her poem Timeless , challenging societal views of aging women, and discusses how success brought both joy and pressure at a young age. She opens up about her immigrant family’s sacrifices, her father’s feminist influence, and the courage it takes to speak out on political and cultural issues. Blending performance, poetry, and vulnerability, this conversation explores how art can transform pain into power and build connection across borders. How can we each find the courage to let go of old stories and create new ones? You can follow us on Instagram at @HarvestSeries or @rose.claverie for updates. Watch our podcast episodes and speaker sessions on YouTube: Harvest Series . Credits: Sound editing by: @lesbellesfrequences Technician in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi Music by: Chambord Artwork by: Davide d'Antonio Harvest Series is produced in partnership with Athena Advisers and Capital Partners Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel

Welcome to another episode of Poems for the Speed of Life with Shane Breslin, writer, business owner, poetry advocate and poet. To finish this series on fathers and fatherhood, I decided to offer a sort of couplet. Two poems, written maybe a century apart, one by a man who was read by millions when he lived and is now long since dead, the other by a young woman who immigrated to Canada from India with her parents as a young child in the 1990s. Edgar Albert Guest was born in Birmingham, England in the 1880s, moved to Detroit, Michigan in the US when he was 10 and later wrote thousands of poems, collected in 20 books, hosted a popular radio show in the 1940s, starred on TV in the 1950s and wrote a popular light column that was syndicated to 300 newspapers around America. His poem here is one of his most serious, I think. His poems were often humorous, poking fun at his subjects, bringing a levity to many a reader’s dark day. This one, Only a Dad, has some of that lightness — a lightness of touch, for sure — but like the best light writers (think of poets such as Pam Ayres or Clive James, who appear in Episodes 43 and 110 of this podcast) the subject matter here will also connect deeply and resonate strongly, I think, with readers everywhere. Rupi Kaur was born in Punjab, India and is now, as she embarks upon her 30s, reaching an ever-growing global audience through heartfelt, searingly powerful and often tiny poems, many of them accompanied by pencil drawings or animated videos that inject her words with even more meaning. Kaur is, in many ways, the first Instagram poet, and I don’t mean that disparagingly at all. Instagram, and other new technologies for communicating globally, are platforms that can be used for good or exploited for ill. The work of Rupi Kaur and many others there spread goodness, wisdom, truth and beauty through the world and across time and space at the speed of light and with at least some of the power of a thousand real-life poetry readings. These two poems cover fathers in very different ways, but each of them is, in its way, priceless. With Guest’s poem, we see and praise the ordinary father, doing ordinary things, for the ordinary beloved people in his life. In Kaur’s poem, we get a glimpse of what happens when a father’s love morphs into something damaging. In both of these poems — as I hope in all of the poems throughout this series on fathers and fatherhood — there is something here for all readers and all listeners. For fathers, who might hope to conduct and fulfil that role to the very best effect for your family and all who need them, and for wives and partners of men, and for sons and daughters of fathers too. So thank you again for being here throughout this series. And I leave you with these two poems, presented together, each offering something different and vital for fathers, for men who would like to be one one day, and for everyone else who yearns for the father in their life to be as strong, as good, as wise and protective and mentoring as he can possibly be. You can read Rupi Kaur’s poem here And Edgar Albert Guest’s poem here *** For a detailed outline of the mission and purpose behind this podcast, please check out Episode 100, "Why Poems for the Speed of Life?", and Episode 200, "A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life", in your podcast player. *** If you’re on social media, you can follow on ⁠⁠Instagram here⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Facebook here⁠⁠. You can subscribe to or follow the show for free wherever you listen to podcasts. To leave the show a review: On Spotify. Open the Spotify app (iOS or Android), ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠find the show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and tap to rate five-stars. On Apple. Open your Apple Po

Today we're thinking about poetry, presenting your work, sharing your story and feelings, and opening for Rupi Kaur with Desiree Mckenzie. Desiree Mckenzie is an award-winning poet, arts educator, national poetry slam champion, voice actor, and photographer from Toronto. Her poetry and voice have been featured in works for CBC, When Sisters Speak, Clearco Financial, Button Poetry, Kids Help Phone, and Home Depot. She facilitates community poetry programming for organizations like JAYU, VIBE Arts, Unity Charity, Poetry in Voice, and Shakespeare in Action. In March 2021, she released her debut spoken word EP, Wet Hair, now available on streaming platforms. In December 2022, she opened for Rupi Kaur on her world tour stop at Massey Hall. Connect with Desiree On her website at desireemckenziepoetry.com On Instagram @desireemckenzie Listen to Wet Hair NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY ✨ Hosted by @kirstimcnabney Find links, inspiration and updates @thinkingaboutpodcast This episode was edited by Amanda Wan of Wan Media Send us Fan Mail

I'm sharing a special preview of a podcast I've been enjoying, Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso, from Pushkin Industries. Talk Easy is a weekly interview podcast, where writer Sam Fragoso invites actors, writers, activists, and politicians to come to the table and speak from the heart in ways you probably haven't heard from them before. Driven by curiosity, he has revealing conversations with guests like Margaret Atwood, David Byrne, Holland Taylor, and more. In this preview, Sam talks to Rupi Kaur ahead of her international tour. Rupi talks about processing trauma through writing, her very successful self-published poetry collection, milk & honey, and reckoning with her critics. You can hear the full episode, and more from Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso, at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/tewindowsillrupi .

Welcome to Unraveled Psyche's NEW SEGMENT! Aside from giving you psycho-educational episodes, we're adding another segment. BIBLIOTHERAPY is a therapeutic modality that uses literature as a means to further our recovery. Words can heal or destroy. Today, we will be listening to Jem as she reads two literary pieces that can be able to help you process your emotions and journey. The authors for today are Rupi Kaur and Savannah Brown. Grab a hot cup of coffee, tea, or iced-cold drink as we process what we're feeling once we listen to the reading for today. Bibliotherapy means processing literature and journaling the experience and what you felt while listening to the reading. It's a soothing and beneficial modality when you're trying to take a step back in life and just let it all in. Hope you learn from this! Don't forget to share this to others Let's learn together and promote mental health awareness ! Follow us at FB, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM at unraveledpsyche Love and light to you, learners! - - - Literary pieces for today's reading: -a short piece from Rupi Kaur's book 'the sun and her flowers' - 'a growing thing' by Savannah Brown