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Poems by James Gering
Woman in the Grand Bazaar
She half sat, half lay under dark shrouds,
dead centre of foot traffic on a cobblestone street of the Grand bazaar.
Toes...
Poems by Michael Angel Martin
Cholina
When my mother dies
I learn I never knew her.
But she told me two stories,
two girlhood miracles.
At ten she saves her family
from a crocodile stalking
in...
A Thousand Irises – By George Angel
Photo by: Sara Marin Amariles
What you are reading is a portion of the journey undertaken by a brother (Ad) and a sister (Soeur) with...
When Jean-Paul Sartre Cured Existential Angst with a Jazz Record – By Ted...
A Look Back at Sartre's Nausea
Philosophers can be incisive storytellers—and have been since the earliest days of the discipline. The most memorable passages in...
Charles Kingsley : “Tomfoolery with a Serious Purpose”
By Kenny Chumbley
No one familiar with Victorian literature would rate Charles Kingsley’s books among the very best except, maybe, his children’s fantasy, The Water-Babies.
Charles Kingsley...
Money-Changers in the Temple: Evil Bankers in Literature and Film – By Tim Wenzell
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies” –Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Taylor, May 28,...
Lewis Carroll and Nonsense – By Kenny Chumbley
“It sounds uncommon nonsense.” The Mock Turtle
Among the storied authors of children’s...
Aura – ( A Novel by Carlos Fuentes ) By Ted Gioia
Felipe Montero sits reading a newspaper in a seedy café, when he is startled by a classified ad. The solicitation seems written with him...
Blossoms of Decay – Gary Beck
By Rajesh Subramanian
Evil has been an inescapable part of the human environment since time immemorial. Whether it originates from the Satan or otherwise, its...
Some Mad Poems Some Sad Poems Some Bad Poems and A Short Story in...
Book Review by: Anjana Basu
Jayant Kripalani’s is a return to a kind of poetry few people write these days. As he himself writes, his...
Don’t Run, My Love – A Novella by Easterine Kire
Book Review by: Anjana Basu
Easterine Kire takes Naga folk tales and weaves them into stories that could belong to any time and place, set...
Pakistan gave my roots and London, the wings to fly- Sabyn Javeri
By Rajesh Subramanian
Dr. Sabyn Javeri is an Assistant Professor at the Arzu center for Literature and Languages at Habib University. She has a Masters...
There is No Subject that isn’t Poetic Material – An Interview with Erin Rodoni
By Rajesh Subramanian
Erin Rodoni is the author of two full length poetry collections: Body, in Good Light (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2017) and A Landscape for Loss (NFSPS Press,...
Why I consider Poetry an endangered art form – An interview with Ikeogu...
Ikeogu Oke is the winner of the 2017 edition of the Nigeria Prize for Literature, an annual competition sponsored by Nigeria LNG Ltd (NLNG)....
