Conducted by USP Creative Instructor Ms Koh Xin Tian, the workshop focuses on written lyric poetry and creative nonfiction. In this beginner-level workshop, participants will practice poetry as thoughtful craft, awareness, integrity, revision and admiration. This class uses the workshop model, which means working together as a community to strengthen each participant’s creative potential. All are welcome, do join Xin Tian for this workshop!

Assoc Professor Ashok Singh Rao, Head Department of Arts, CASH, Mody University will be visiting USP as an Academic Visitor from 4 – 8 March 2017. He will be conducting two seminars during his visit. The first seminar, moderated by USP faculty Dr Mustafa Izzuddin, is on Indian Poetry: Artistic and Thematic Constructions. Today, there are a large number of educated Indians who use the English Language as a medium of creative exploration and expression of their experience of life. As a result. Indian writing has now developed into a substantial body of literature in its own right under a Poetic manifesto prepared in The Writers’ Workshop at Calcutta (Kolkata). Unlike British poetry, Indian poetry has always stressed on the need for the private voice, especially because we live in an age that tends so easily to demonstrations of mass approval and hysteria. The definition of poetry “it begins with delight and ends with wisdom” is an integral message on Indian poetry.