About
The Aranyer Poetry Residency is a two-week long annual residency founded by Avinab Datta-Areng in the Indus valley of Shey, Ladakh.
The residency hopes to provide poets with a space for poetry – what poetry might mean, and not merely the intended act or writing of it, but all the ineffable which exists already, also what we might feebly call ‘process’. Resident poets are free to utilize their time here the way they see fit. Each resident poet is fully covered, meaning their domestic travel, accommodation, and meals, and they are also offered a gestural stipend of 10K INR each.
Because of its location and the fact that it is run completely from a home, surrounded by Ladakh’s incomparable and often hard-fought beauty, it’s also not a traditional residency in any sense of the word.
The residency is also meant to try and create cross-cultural transferences between incoming poets and the local literary community of Ladakh at large.
In the near future, Aranyer will expand into a foundation that is no longer limited to the residency, but also reading events, grants, anything that is within its means to contribute to a culture where the belief that, to borrow from Bolaño, “only poetry isn’t shit” is preserved. The foundation will be supported by individuals who want to collaborate in this mission towards poetry; and again, we hope that it becomes a meeting point for it and sticks to the bare essentials any poet starting out can fall back on. The foundation intends to grow, learn, evolve, and is made with the help and along with its participants.
About
The Aranyer Poetry Residency is a two-week long annual residency founded by Avinab Datta-Areng in the Indus valley of Shey, Ladakh.
The residency hopes to provide poets with a space for poetry – what poetry might mean, and not merely the intended act or writing of it, but all the ineffable which exists already, also what we might feebly call ‘process’. Resident poets are free to utilize their time here the way they see fit. Each resident poet is fully covered, meaning their domestic travel, accommodation, and meals, and they are also offered a gestural stipend of 10K INR each.
Because of its location and the fact that it is run completely from a home, surrounded by Ladakh’s incomparable and often hard-fought beauty, it’s also not a traditional residency in any sense of the word.
The residency is also meant to try and create cross-cultural transferences between incoming poets and the local literary community of Ladakh at large.
In the near future, Aranyer will expand into a foundation that is no longer limited to the residency, but also reading events, grants, anything that is within its means to contribute to a culture where the belief that, to borrow from Bolaño, “only poetry isn’t shit” is preserved. The foundation will be supported by individuals who want to collaborate in this mission towards poetry; and again, we hope that it becomes a meeting point for it and sticks to the bare essentials any poet starting out can fall back on. The foundation intends to grow, learn, evolve, and is made with the help and along with its participants.
The Aranyer Poetry Residency is a two-week long annual residency founded by Avinab Datta-Areng in the Indus valley of Shey, Ladakh.
The residency hopes to provide poets with a space for poetry – what poetry might mean, and not merely the intended act or writing of it, but all the ineffable which exists already, also what we might feebly call ‘process’. Resident poets are free to utilize their time here the way they see fit. Each resident poet is fully covered, meaning their domestic travel, accommodation, and meals, and they are also offered a gestural stipend of 10K INR each.
Because of its location and the fact that it is run completely from a home, surrounded by Ladakh’s incomparable and often hard-fought beauty, it’s also not a traditional residency in any sense of the word.
The residency is also meant to try and create cross-cultural transferences between incoming poets and the local literary community of Ladakh at large.
In the near future, Aranyer will expand into a foundation that is no longer limited to the residency, but also reading events, grants, anything that is within its means to contribute to a culture where the belief that, to borrow from Bolaño, “only poetry isn’t shit” is preserved. The foundation will be supported by individuals who want to collaborate in this mission towards poetry; and again, we hope that it becomes a meeting point for it and sticks to the bare essentials any poet starting out can fall back on. The foundation intends to grow, learn, evolve, and is made with the help and along with its participants.