listening pleasure he said wordman has started a series of performed readings of prose plays and the likes they recently organized animals and other people to explore rich texts based on the weird habits of animals and a session on the poetry in bob marleys songs audiences are often surprised at how once inaccessible works suddenly become very understandable when heard instead of read deesh said he now plans to organize performances based around important literary events and birthdays to take story telling a step further nandini varma and shantanu anand started the airplane poetry movement apm when they were fourth year law students apm helps discover and develop spoken word poets by giving opportunities for the same said nandini apm has been organizing slams and workshops to teach youngsters performance poetry and how it differs from writing it they have now expanded to other cities continuing to hold events regularly in pune today a lot more people want to speak up and share their stories using the medium and because its so personal more people want to listen to you nandini added right now apm has an internship on for curators of the form for vishal and neha pipraiya starting their cafe pagdandi in baner meant more than the usual food and drink two strangers who may be sitting beside each other reading in the cafe may get talking weve seen such conversations evolve where a discovery of similar interests has led to new stories and events being held here said neha the duo started a writers club initiative last june for closet writers to gather and exchange ideas recently a few who were interested in urdu poetry started shavita shayari kavita at the caf they meet to discuss different topics vishal shared going further they said we focus on holding participatory events quite often there is a new storyteller everytime and thats what mattersby dean lobo