HI! I’m Carolene.

I’m a Malayali-American poet from South Florida, and I currently serve as the Poetry Editor for Okay Donkey. Before you keep scrolling to see my latest updates, click on the link below to read my most recent poem in Passages North!

Updates:

I’m so excited to say that I’ll be leading a generative poetry workshop at MAD Arts museum on Saturday, April 26, from 6-8pm! We’ll be looking at the museum’s collection of digital poetry and writing our own meta-ekphrastic poems based off of it. If you’re in South Florida, come on down (or up) to Dania Beach (481 S Federal Hwy) and hang out! It’ll be a great time, and I’d love to meet you :)

To RSVP, send an email to art@yeswearemad.com with the subject line “Poetry Workshop.”

In other news, I have brand new poems out in RHINO, Passages North, and Barrelhouse; you can click on the hyperlinks and buy a copy to support! Or, follow me on Bluesky, where you can find my posts with the poems.

Stay tuned for more exciting news to come!