Poet & Editor
Conversation with a Seed
Just the two of us here,
sitting face to face.
Me, a fleck of paused intention
in a coat of dulled brown,
and you: cupped earth.
Outside, goldenrod glowers acid-yellow
in the spruce’s long shade,
rocks clutch their shadow-rags.
Even the granite’s orange lichen
sheds its skin.
But here, in this damp silk
of shaded afternoon,
we touch the quiet.
You think me small?
Listen—this dark is patient craft.
Not like the gull’s slow lope
across a clammy sky,
not like the fireweed’s
unchosen, breeze-less fall.
This dark, is root-ward,
deep and cool as spruce-resonance,
thrumming a different hum.
I hold the blueprint
of the acid-glow,
the feathery grass-head,
the boulder’s slow confession.
I am the before of shadow,
the after of the lichen’s gold.
London rains, Paris turns.
But here, beneath the stain
of one dead branch’s russet,
beneath the weight of years
that shift the very stone,
I am the constant yes
against the world’s persistent no.
I am the quiet conversation
the earth repeats with light.
The husk holds firm
but deep within, a green ignites.
https://thechrysalisbrewproject.com/BREW-directory/conversation-with-a-seed/
IPPL JOURNAL ISSUE 6, April 2025
Essay on Eco-Poetry: Human Responsibility and Connection.
https://ippljournal.org/ippl-journal-issue-6-april-2025/
328. https://theliterarymirror.in/gratitude-in-literature-a-literary-viewpoint/
Essay on Gratitude from a Literary Viewpoint 13th April 2025
329. Podcast with On the Mohua Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Tk5rT6HGs
Uploaded on 23rd April 2025.
Shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/iG9LGFkoaJ0?si=YbrsCmM3Yamzdeqk
330. Essay on Purnima Devi Barman published in The Chakkar https://www.thechakkar.com/home/purnimadevibarman
331. Poem Journey published in Sahithya Samvedanam May 2025 ed by Chelat.
332. 2. https://www.setumag.com/2025/04/setu-special-edition.html?m=1
Two poems- What if I looked beneath the A4 sheet of your thoughts and Foreign Land
333. Two poems in Sing, Slivered Tongue ed. By Lopamudra Basu and Feroza Jussawala Poems: Yashodhara and Kali’s Ten Arms published by Yoda Press May 2025.
334. EKL REVIEW Middle-age Liberation
335. https://www.dailyversethewiseowl.art
7th April 2025, what is the word
336. https://www.poemsindia.in/three-poems-by-vinita-agrawal-2 poems: homebound dusk, reparation to mother, unholdable love 28th July 2025
337. https://thehooghlyreview.com/vinita-agrawals-eartha-a-planets-cry/
Book review of Eartha by Kiran Bhat Published on 30th July 2025
338. https://eklreview.com/issue_12/ August 4th 2025, Middle-Age Liberation
339. https://parchamonline.in/2025/08/04/poetry-july-2025/ Of Joys 5th July 2025
340. https://www.thechakkar.com 23rd August 2025, five Poems - teach me bulbul, what the Mountains keep, the sculptor, rain and the unspoken hymn of trees
341. https://thechrysalisbrewproject.com/BREW-directory/conversation-with-a-seed/
Conversation with a Seed, Aug 25, 2025, officially nominated for the BREW Award.
342. Homeland in The Hooghly Review poetry section edited by Sanjeev Sethi.
343. What was kept accepted for Livina Press special issue on Homeland to be published in early September.
344. https://www.outlookindia.com/books/bridging-the-chasms-between-past-and-future
Review of Earthrise in Outlook 30th August 2025
345. Concealed published in Hemlock - a literary arts journal 2025. Issue on Love Poetry.
www.thehemlockjournal.com 1st September 2025.
346. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MSGsX87Ez_kjMRMDfy7F5BvQkUJhTp0E/view?usp=drivesdk Pena poem: Drought
347. https://canvasrebel.com/meet-vinita-agrawal-2/
Interview on canvas rebel published on 2nd September 2025
348. https://pulpliterature.com/announcing-the-2025-kingfisher-poetry-prize-longlist/
2nd September 2025
349. Proverse Poetry Prize 2025 Mingled Voices 10 Anthology Poem: Fragile Lexicon date of announcement: 2nd September 2025
350. Porch literary magazine Issue 13, September 2025 Let me love what I Cannot hold.
https://porch-litmag.com/let-me-love-what-i-cannot-hold/
351. Livina press anthology What Was Kept 6th September 2025. Page 22, poem number 11.
352. Shriti k Tyagi NotHere but Beyond poem: Mumbai
353. 13th september 2025 https://madrascourier.com/art-and-poetry/israel-mulls-complete-military-takeover-of-gaza/
354. September 22 Canary - First Person Account of the Seed and Undergrowth, Issue 70, Fall 2025. https://canarylitmag.org/contents.php#1522
355. One poem only published first person account of the seed on Instagram @rembrandtscure, Maggie Devers
https://youtube.com/shorts/B2kfPsUVD6Y?si=vX34JJ_UMpd_-xwf
356. Relic - an anthology of poems ed. by Meenakshi Mohan and Santosh Bakaya
Two poems : Relics in Colour, Rectangular Patch of Sunlight
357. Hooghly Review- Fictile Feelings ed. Sanjeev Sethi Poem - Homeland. 3rd October 2025
358. SFPA poetry contest third prize for The Light Phenomena
359. https://youtu.be/c9OUE5tQx10 interview with writers capital foundation for the Meet the Luminaries series 8th October
https://youtu.be/c9OUE5tQx10?si=B8pGCblFVaw1oxYN
360. https://www.litlive.in/fest25/mystory/survival Survival up for votes on the lit live website
361. Blue Mountain Review, Issue 35, September 2025, Reparation
362. https://sfpoetry.org/wp/annual-contest/2025-sfpa-poetry-contest/#thirdshort
The Light Phenomena won third place in the SFPA poetry contest. $25 prize
363. poem Threshold Song won runner up prize in the Mānoa Poetry Contest 9th October 2025, prize: $250
364. Jury for khayal50above50 https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1HwL6gqPGN/?mibextid=wwXIfr
365. https://www.thewiseowl.art/vinita-agrawal-a-tribute-to-keki-daruwalla Tribute to Keki Daruwalla published in The Wise Owl 1st November 2025.
366. https://youtu.be/N6euNs8XfX4?si=jYsaK1Y9xZ2DXrTp
Bare bones channel on my 3 fav books and 1 short story
367. https://roundglasssustain.com/travel/bugun-liocichla-arunachal-pradesh
368. Essay on Green Bee Eater 18th November
https://morungexpress.com/an-emerald-life-a-day-in-the-wings-of-a-green-bee-eater
369. https://theworldsbestmagazine.com/2025/11/24/vinita-agrawal-on-poetry-nature-and-the-quiet-conversations-of-life/ Interview about my work in this magazine. Published on 25th November 2025.
370. Review of Eartha published here on 25th November 2025 https://onetribune.one/2025/10/23/eartha-by-vinita-agrawal/ Eartha wins the voyages of verses award
371. Eartha shortlisted https://www.frontlist.in/pvlf/author-excellence-awards/best-poetry/shortlisted/78
372. Podcast with Neil Joseph for Xpanding Horizons 12th December 2025
https://youtu.be/9Gog6nUY358?si=Gf_vj5ZWRaN8o-dp
Reel: https://youtube.com/shorts/bqhLAxNIL24?si=mabEGHvOAzgyWgOx
