https://www.poojanansi.com/pooja-nansi daily 1.0 2025-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1525970597315-4O6WZRTKU1L8Q90E64G7/YTH_6939.jpg Pooja Nansi - Pooja Nansi is the author of Stiletto Scars and Love is an Empty Barstool. She is also the editor of several anthologies of Singaporean poetry and literary education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1521088602931-G9H15SAI2TMD2U5AJ9Y2/Slide1.jpg Pooja Nansi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1521089595205-77PP7D7ICO547MTU462R/Slide1.jpg Pooja Nansi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1521089045667-1WBBN88MTSQCJ40NCB1U/Slide1.jpg Pooja Nansi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1521087344098-JDCLXUIYF44SYS7D4QS6/Love_is_an_Empty_Barstool_001_S.jpg Pooja Nansi Photo credit: BooksActually. $16. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1521091372095-V62UBM6U7A8WDKITY1PT/image-asset.jpeg Pooja Nansi - An educator with over a decade's worth of experience, Pooja has been commissioned by the Singapore Writers Festival's Words Go Round programme and Sing Lit Station's Book A Writer programme to conduct workshops on literature and poetry with young people and schools all over the country as well as abroad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1525962419595-YYRO54G65ZPU508F6D3G/1558573_582277635197936_16644878_n.jpg Pooja Nansi - From April 2013 to March 2018, Pooja ran and curated the monthly poetry showcase Speakeasy at the dining and art space Artistry. Its final edition, "Speakeasy: One Last Dance", took place on the 17 Mar 2018, featuring an incredible line-up of up to 20 poets, writers and artists to commemorate the closing of Artistry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1525963885815-VD4M6BG2BE8MF4H5W30F/2017-11-09-PHOTO-00000145.jpg Pooja Nansi - Pooja has performed at poetry festivals around the world, and has also organised events both independently and as a collaborator with other artists and producers. Pictured here is one installation of .txt, a site-specific series of work made in collaboration with writer Daryl Qilin Yam for the National Arts Council's Arts in Your Neighbourhood initiative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1525970800203-2FHV0YAN2X4UETY41CTX/YTH_6768.jpg Pooja Nansi - Pooja Nansi is a curator and arts organiser, putting together programmes for arts venues, public spaces and schools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1521089708040-U8BKWH9IH3GFXHK95JDU/YTH_6798.jpg Pooja Nansi - Pooja Nansi is a performer and a spoken word poet. Her work includes her one-woman show You Are Here and Thick Beats for Good Girls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1525961549396-WHUIY6JRNAAAYTOQ5RFY/Checkpoint+Thick+Beats+0503180178.jpg Pooja Nansi Photo credit: Joel Lim @ Calibre Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1521090741446-E4BMW2P0ZKOKHTS94YUC/You+are+Here+Publicity.jpg Pooja Nansi Photo credit: Crispian Chan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1521022897769-CIBMJOTIQM4QPVCHWLPS/YTH_6798.jpg Pooja Nansi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1525970149007-UDUECH3EDG9OWW8ZNWMU/YTH_6939.jpg Pooja Nansi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1525970529701-UL1YVSUMVQUVM025EFF4/YTH_6939.jpg Pooja Nansi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1525970735780-58UBM8WPXXUURFGLU4PZ/YTH_6768.jpg Pooja Nansi https://www.poojanansi.com/about daily 0.75 2018-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1521086209203-5LTIR1J715000LDD5FKY/YTH_6828.jpg About / Contact - Pooja Nansi is Singapore's first Youth Poet Ambassador. In 2016, she was a recipient of the Young Artist Award, Singapore's highest accolade for arts practitioners below the age of 35. Her work has been described as "unflinching, lyrical and quietly honest".   She is the author of 2 collections of poetry and the co-author of a teacher's resource for using Singaporean poetry in the classroom. She was also the NAC-NTU Writer in Residence for the 2015/2016 academic year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa8e85cf793922ad7a33ccc/1521086377029-BMZHFP25XYFMHAVU9V61/YTH_6776.jpg About / Contact - From 2013-2018 Pooja curated a monthly spoken word and poetry showcase called Speakeasy which played to packed audiences. Her key performance work involves her one-woman show You Are Here, which was performed as part of Esplanade's The Studios series, Esplanade's 2016 Kalaa Utsavam – Indian Festival of Arts, and the Queensland Poetry Festival. Her collaboration with Australian playwright Jessica Bellamy and Checkpoint Theatre, Thick Beats for Good Girls, was staged in April 2018 and explores the intersections between feminism, ethnicity and Hip Hop.