If doors could speak.

Album art for MAQTA

We're thrilled to be featuring at the prestigious MAP festival today with a new set called 'What will people say?' #poet #poetry #Poem #openmic #featureperformer #spokenword #liveperformance #performancepoetry #performance #shayar #shaayari #sher #ghazal #mehfil #maqta #verse #rhyme #poetryisnotdead #poetrycommunity #livepoetry (at The Bombay Presidency Radio Club)

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment #maqtabridge #emiratesdrivinginstitute #abudhabi #maqta #goals (at Al Maqta`, Abū Z̧Aby, United Arab Emirates)

The Masochism of Writers #story #muse #character #poet #poetry #Poem #shayar #shaayari #sher #ghazal #mehfil #maqta #verse #rhyme #poetryisnotdead #poetrycommunity #livepoetry

@be_hiver interviewing @ishmeetnagpal and @radegaps on their personal journeys through misogyny, depression, words and how it translated into poetry. #poet #poetry #Poem #openmic #featureperformer #spokenword #liveperformance #performancepoetry #performance #shayar #shaayari #sher #ghazal #mehfil #maqta #verse #rhyme #poetryisnotdead #poetrycommunity #livepoetry (at QTube Cafe)

"Depression is an isolating place to be in" - @ishmeetnagpal shares her own personal journey through the illness, the shaping of her poem 'Before Suicide'. #poet #poetry #Poem #openmic #featureperformer #spokenword #liveperformance #performancepoetry #performance #shayar #shaayari #sher #ghazal #mehfil #maqta #verse #rhyme #poetryisnotdead #poetrycommunity #livepoetry (at QTube Cafe)

And this is me being frightened by, no, not patriarchy (HA!) but a barista. #poet #poetry #Poem #openmic #featureperformer #spokenword #liveperformance #performancepoetry #performance #shayar #shaayari #sher #ghazal #mehfil #maqta #verse #rhyme #poetryisnotdead #poetrycommunity #livepoetry #Sexonomics (at The Habitat - Comedy and Music Cafe)