Mani Suri
Mani Suri is a veteran of the Poetic License crowd in L.A.
He is the author of three chapbooks:
“Poetry My Wife Hates and the Mistresses I Could Have Had Would Have Loved,”
“Reflection: More Poetry My Wife Hates or the Mistresses I’ll Never Have Who Might Have Loved It,” and
“Poetry My Wife Hates: Third in a Series.”
Mani has been published in several anthologies, and has been featured locally, and as far away as Berkeley, Austin, and London.
He co-hosted the weekly reading at the Rapp Saloon in Santa Monica for eight years.
Mani has read his work recently as the featured poet at The Studio City Library, The Studio Theater in Studio City, as well as for the Canyon Poets via Zoom.
Mani’s first single, Hard, with music, will be available on CD Baby, Spotify, YouTube on June 21.
Some of his live readings were recorded and are available on YouTube
Mani’s interview with “Make Your Own Fun”
Mani Suri is a veteran of the Poetic License crowd in L.A.
He is the author of three chapbooks:
“Poetry My Wife Hates and the Mistresses I Could Have Had Would Have Loved,”
“Reflection: More Poetry My Wife Hates or the Mistresses I’ll Never Have Who Might Have Loved It,” and
“Poetry My Wife Hates: Third in a Series.”
Mani has been published in several anthologies, and has been featured locally, and as far away as Berkeley, Austin, and London.
He co-hosted the weekly reading at the Rapp Saloon in Santa Monica for eight years.
Mani has read his work recently as the featured poet at The Studio City Library, The Studio Theater in Studio City, as well as for the Canyon Poets via Zoom.
Mani’s first single, Hard, with music, will be available on CD Baby, Spotify, YouTube on June 21.
Some of his live readings were recorded and are available on YouTube
Mani’s interview with “Make Your Own Fun”
Priam
Imagine you're the king, enjoying a glass of wine as you watch the blue sky and azure Mediterranean Sea while a cool breeze is softly billowing in the diaphonous curtains. White sails are bobbing on the sea.
In comes your excited son with another man's wife. A very jealous man's wife. A king, even.
Your name is Priam of Troy. Your son is Paris and the jealous man's wife is Helen.
What would you think? What would you DO?!
This could end up in the destruction of your kingdom in a decades long war, and cost thousands of lives!
What would you say to Paris?!
Would you call a poet to start writing?!
Imagine you're the king, enjoying a glass of wine as you watch the blue sky and azure Mediterranean Sea while a cool breeze is softly billowing in the diaphonous curtains. White sails are bobbing on the sea.
In comes your excited son with another man's wife. A very jealous man's wife. A king, even.
Your name is Priam of Troy. Your son is Paris and the jealous man's wife is Helen.
What would you think? What would you DO?!
This could end up in the destruction of your kingdom in a decades long war, and cost thousands of lives!
What would you say to Paris?!
Would you call a poet to start writing?!
© 2025 Mani Suri
Mani Suri was a Featured Poet at the June 2025 Second Sunday Poetry Series
Mani Suri was a Featured Poet at the June 2025 Second Sunday Poetry Series