Vinod Narayan + Open Mic

Vinod Narayan is a Poet from India and made the SF Bay Area his home since 2002. He started writing poetry in 2004 and have been continuing it since then both writing and performing them at events in the Bay Area. Vinod is also a Blogger, Video Podcaster and a Content Management Professional regularly blogging on poetry, movie reviews, articles and opinions on life and things that matter to life. Vinod’s poetry range from personal poems to poems that address the theme of humanity, love, peace and surrealism. He also actively pens Haikus and Flash Fiction and converts poems to video poems on Youtube. For last two years he has taken up a 30 day challenge on the poetry month of April where he pens a new poem every day. This year he took up two projects, Penning a new poem every day as well as translating a poem by an international poet to his native language Malayalam. This has sparked his interest in translations. He has two collections of Poetry “Remembering Dad” and “Precious Wombs to Priceless Tombs”. He is currently working on his third collection of poetry “Capturing Reflections”. He lives in Niles, Fremont with his wife and two kids and runs his Content Company ‘PenPositive’ creating and managing content for companies He believes in the power of the Pen and quotes “The power of the pen is not in the color of the ink it spills; but the power of the word it spells.”