Abhilipsa Sahoo
Poetry enthusiast🖋, CSE undergrad🖥
About
A twenty year-old poet based in Odisha, India. Currently pursuing Computer Science and Engineering. Avid reader and ice-cream consumer. (She/Her)
Interested in collaboration? Get in touch!
WORK
Poems:
• Why I Would No Longer Wish To Sing Poems For My Mother, AIRPLANE POETRY MOVEMENT ANTHOLOGY: A LETTER, A POEM, A HOME, edited by Shantanu Anand & Nandini Varma (Print)
•Poems Follow Me, YOU'VE GONE INCOGNITO, The Soapbox: Volume V (Online/Print)
• Unsung, THE HERITAGE REVIEW, Issue No. 6 (Online)
• Everyday I am Born Like This, THE METAWORKER, 2018 (Online)
•Spring in the Pandemic, BEYOND THE STORM POETRY COMPETITION ANTHOLOGY: POEMS FROM THE COVID-19 ERA (Print)
• Ode from a Niece, YOUR VOICE CROSSES THE OCEAN - FOYLE YOUNG POETS OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 (COMMENDED POEMS) ANTHOLOGY (Online/Print)
also appeared in the "moon stories" portal of 'PROMISED THE MOON' EXHIBITION supported by ANU School of Art & Design Gallery
• Gravitone Delle Mie Poesie (Graviton of My Poems), TEEN INK, Fall 2019 Issue (Online/Print)
• Monumental, THE BRIMMING BARDS (Print)
• Rhapsody, PERVERSE MAGAZINE, Issue 3F (Online)
• Where I ask, GEMS ZINE (formerly F*EMS ZINE), Issue No. 15 (Print)
•I Trust This Universe Again, SONGS OF PEACE: THE WORLD’S
BIGGEST POETRY ANTHOLOGY OF
CONTEMPORARY POETRY 2020 (PART - A), by The League of Poets (Online/Print)
• Brown Girl from Outer Space, DESERT ROSE LITERARY MAGAZINE, Issue No. 1 (Online/Print)
• Of The Threads That Connect The Stars (II), GENRE: URBAN ARTS, Vol. 6 (Print)
• Of All The Things I Want To Do Before I Turn Eighteen, GENRE: URBAN ARTS, Vol. 6 (Print)
• For [x] lady love, GENRE: URBAN ARTS, Vol. 7 (Print)
• The Ending Is Not The End, GENRE: URBAN ARTS, Vol. 8 (Print)
Book Reviews:
• Elizabeth Acevedo's "The Poet X", ALEBRIJES REVIEW
HONOURS
• Foyle "Commended" Young Poet of the Year Award 2019 — Young Poets Network, THE POETRY SOCIETY, UK, for the poem, Ode from a Niece
• Under-19 Runner up — St Petrocs' Poetry Competition held under St Petrocs' Campaign, "Let's End Street Homelessness in Cornwall 2018" for the poem, Now that my home resides only in my poems
• Longlistee — Write Out Loud's Beyond the Storm: Poetry Competition in association with Andrew McMillan and the BBC Casualty Team of Actors, for the poem, Spring in the Pandemic
• Longlistee — The Wollstonecraft poetry challenge, THE POETRY SOCIETY, UK
•Longlistee — White Space: Bloodaxe Archive Challenge #2, THE POETRY SOCIETY, UK
EXPERIENCE
PROGRAMS:
• Mentee — "FIND YOUR FORM", a Young Poets Network Workshop exclusively for Foyle Young Poets 2019 (16 April 2020)
• Mentee — Korean poetry workshop set by 2020 Writer in Residence Soje (FKA So J. Lee) in association with MODERN POETRY IN TRANSLATION
• Mentee — Haiku Translation Workshop set by Alan Cummings in association with MODERN POETRY IN TRANSLATION
EVENTS:
• Performer — "YOU'VE GONE INCOGNITO" Anthology launch, organized by The Soapbox Press
Contact
Natural habitat lies in close proximity to bookshelves. Often spotted at libraries, book stores, bus stops or 'on the bed, exposed to blue light'.