Diane Mehta
@dianemehta.bsky.social
Happier Far: Essays UGAP 3/25. Tiny Extravaganzas 11/23 New Yorker, Kenyon, VQR, A Public Space. Poet in residence New Chamber Ballet. Bombay-NYC
Books: https://www.dianemehta.net/
Editing: https://www.dianemehtaediting.com/
Books: https://www.dianemehta.net/
Editing: https://www.dianemehtaediting.com/
Fantastic night at a packed house thx to @peninaroth.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Fantastic night at a packed house thx to @peninaroth.bsky.social
Poet in residence at New Chamber Ballet in NYC; this poem about one of the dancers is in the @newyorker.com.web.brid.gy
November 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Poet in residence at New Chamber Ballet in NYC; this poem about one of the dancers is in the @newyorker.com.web.brid.gy
Cover of my book Happier Far: Essays out in March 2025 with University of Georgia Press
November 18, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Cover of my book Happier Far: Essays out in March 2025 with University of Georgia Press
Unburied Books invited me to talk about Dante's Inferno. Timestamps: 7:35 to be as good as God, 22 Giotto, 27 Irish/music, 42:20 men walking, 48:50 friendship, 54 death/letting go, 56 Geryon-Ugolino, 1:09 fallible Virgil, 1:12 ballet. 1:14 self-deception and one's best possible work. bit.ly/3GEa5xk
December 13, 2023 at 2:31 PM
Unburied Books invited me to talk about Dante's Inferno. Timestamps: 7:35 to be as good as God, 22 Giotto, 27 Irish/music, 42:20 men walking, 48:50 friendship, 54 death/letting go, 56 Geryon-Ugolino, 1:09 fallible Virgil, 1:12 ballet. 1:14 self-deception and one's best possible work. bit.ly/3GEa5xk
Thank you Publishers Weekly for the starred review and for noticing the rhythms and sounds I care so much about! www.publishersweekly.com/9798987924112
December 6, 2023 at 3:09 PM
Thank you Publishers Weekly for the starred review and for noticing the rhythms and sounds I care so much about! www.publishersweekly.com/9798987924112
Snap of me reading a 5p poem from Tiny Extravaganzas and having everyone rapt for 10 min, amazingly. Thank you musicians for training me to read more powerfully.
November 23, 2023 at 2:18 AM
Snap of me reading a 5p poem from Tiny Extravaganzas and having everyone rapt for 10 min, amazingly. Thank you musicians for training me to read more powerfully.
Sunday book party cake for 40!
November 23, 2023 at 2:16 AM
Sunday book party cake for 40!
Back to Dante's Inferno, 2nd round with my Civitella friends, this time thinking more about Aristotle and looking more closely at the Italian, and using every translation but defaulting to the Princeton literal prose edition.
November 13, 2023 at 3:19 AM
Back to Dante's Inferno, 2nd round with my Civitella friends, this time thinking more about Aristotle and looking more closely at the Italian, and using every translation but defaulting to the Princeton literal prose edition.
My first piece for The Times Literary Supplement, a delight, and a lot of research on Whitman's poems, his prose (all of it), and two centuries of Jewish-American poetry. bit.ly/40iQ5JN
November 1, 2023 at 11:04 PM
My first piece for The Times Literary Supplement, a delight, and a lot of research on Whitman's poems, his prose (all of it), and two centuries of Jewish-American poetry. bit.ly/40iQ5JN
Come to my book launch Nov 2 in Boston! Excited to be in the mix with @clmerrill.bsky.social and Steven Cramer.
October 19, 2023 at 6:43 PM
Come to my book launch Nov 2 in Boston! Excited to be in the mix with @clmerrill.bsky.social and Steven Cramer.
New poem at Poetry Northwest, in generous celebration of my book, out now. bit.ly/3JHkcUf (order from Arrowsmith) www.poetrynw.org/diane-mehta-...
October 19, 2023 at 3:11 PM
New poem at Poetry Northwest, in generous celebration of my book, out now. bit.ly/3JHkcUf (order from Arrowsmith) www.poetrynw.org/diane-mehta-...
Illuminated manuscript for a choir book, in library at San Marco museum in Florence. Renaissance and medieval collection.
October 16, 2023 at 10:52 PM
Illuminated manuscript for a choir book, in library at San Marco museum in Florence. Renaissance and medieval collection.
Just wow, Fra Angelico.
October 16, 2023 at 3:54 PM
Just wow, Fra Angelico.
5€ for this cool Italian guide to Purgatorio. Didn't get Inferno bec the guy didn't have Paradiso.
October 15, 2023 at 9:01 PM
5€ for this cool Italian guide to Purgatorio. Didn't get Inferno bec the guy didn't have Paradiso.
Pencil Venus by Depero at the Medici Palace museum in Florence.
October 15, 2023 at 5:12 PM
Pencil Venus by Depero at the Medici Palace museum in Florence.
Fantastic, Rome. 4th C I think, don't quote me. Stopped me and threw me, changed the day and memories to come.
October 14, 2023 at 10:20 PM
Fantastic, Rome. 4th C I think, don't quote me. Stopped me and threw me, changed the day and memories to come.
Here is a fresco from the Medici Palace. It is a house of wealth and power. The work is beautiful. Italy is beautiful. But I am very sad.
October 14, 2023 at 5:39 PM
Here is a fresco from the Medici Palace. It is a house of wealth and power. The work is beautiful. Italy is beautiful. But I am very sad.
Coming soon, pre-order at Arrowsmith! bit.ly/3JHkcUf
October 13, 2023 at 11:13 AM
Coming soon, pre-order at Arrowsmith! bit.ly/3JHkcUf
Just wandered into this remarkable Bernini church in Rome
October 12, 2023 at 3:46 PM
Just wandered into this remarkable Bernini church in Rome
Sistine Chapel. So packed I didn't see signs not to photograph until the guard came, but seeing how much loot the Vatican has, I figured it was a minor offense to their bigger offenses.
October 11, 2023 at 4:20 PM
Sistine Chapel. So packed I didn't see signs not to photograph until the guard came, but seeing how much loot the Vatican has, I figured it was a minor offense to their bigger offenses.
Aphrodite of course
October 11, 2023 at 9:40 AM
Aphrodite of course
Letizia Battaglia exhibition at Caracalla Baths in Rome.
October 11, 2023 at 9:39 AM
Letizia Battaglia exhibition at Caracalla Baths in Rome.
New poems in Air/Light bit.ly/3tyCH7L
October 11, 2023 at 9:36 AM
New poems in Air/Light bit.ly/3tyCH7L
Writing from Esquilino in Rome, listening to the noises of the morning.
October 11, 2023 at 9:30 AM
Writing from Esquilino in Rome, listening to the noises of the morning.