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Poems by Kashiana Singh

M L - April 15, 2019

Praying these days do you pray with mind or heart? do you bow your head or bow your soul? do you drape a scarf, wear your Sunday...

Malayalam Poetry : Mangad Ratnakaran’s Poems

April 11, 2019

The Song of the Melancholic – By Rimli Bhattacharya

April 9, 2019

Father – By Blaze Minevski

April 5, 2019

Stars above Detroit – By Jonathan B. Ferrini

April 3, 2019

Modern Literature

Fiction

The Last Matinee – By James Gering

Poetry

Poems by Sarah Dickenson Snyder

Poetry

Poems by Aditya Shankar

Poetry

Existential Threat : Poems by Thomas Piekarski

M L - November 16, 2018

Existential Threat How do we expunge turpitude of onerous ogres who would subvert our hard-won independence? How so...

Poems by Gili Haimovich

January 3, 2018

Poems by Jonathan Douglas Dowdle

September 7, 2018

Fiction

Just that Night – By Rimli Bhattacharya

M L - July 16, 2018

The laptop was open at that bedside table of mine. It was dead of night and I haven’t slept a wink. Normally by this...

Drowning in the Red Sea – By Rebekah Ricksecker

March 8, 2019

Grandma Non-Oui – By Lidija Dimkovska ( An excerpt )

December 4, 2017

Non-Fiction

I’ve Come to the End – By Kenny Chumbley

Non-Fiction M L - March 30, 2019

With this essay, I conclude my series on fairy tales. I’ve not discussed everyone I could have (E. Nesbit and P. L. Travers, for...

C. S. Lewis and Narnia

Non-Fiction M L - February 21, 2019

By Kenny Chumbley It is often the case that children are introduced to the genius of C. S. Lewis through his fantasy series, The Chronicles...

J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of Fantasy

Non-Fiction M L - January 25, 2019

By Kenny Chumbley In October 1936, a manuscript for a children’s book arrived at the office of the London publisher Allen & Unwin. Stanley Unwin,...

L. Frank Baum and the Wonder of Oz

Non-Fiction M L - December 15, 2018

By Kenny Chumbley He saw his story as a “modernized fairy tale,” but he put no fairies in it. He meant it to be without...

Book Reviews

No Such Thing As Distance – Karen Paul Holmes

Book Reviews M L - April 10, 2018

Review by Lynn Alexander When you enter Karen Paul Holmes’s poetry, you travel a path between love and death, joy and anguish, gravity and humor—the...

Don’t Run, My Love – A Novella by Easterine Kire

Book Reviews M L - February 5, 2018

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...

Ceremonial – By Carly Joy Miller

Book Reviews M L - April 1, 2018

Review by: Rajesh Subramanian The poems in this collection are refreshingly different - in terms of their style, content and poetic poignancy. You catch hold...

In my Patina Cup- By Sadia Khan

Book Reviews M L - June 3, 2018

Book Review by Shazia Batool Naqvi The metaphorical Title of this volume: “In my Patina Cup” brought to mind the gem words of Muriel Rukeyser(1):...

Interviews

I ordered a Short Story from Milorad Pavic – An Interview with Jasmina Mihajlovic

Interviews M L - July 24, 2018

Interviewed by Rajesh Subramanian Could you share some of your most memorable experiences with your late husband, Milorad Pavic, as a literary co-traveler? Our literary cooperation...

I Like Innovations : Danijela Trajković

Interviews M L - February 1, 2019

Interviewed by Rajesh Subramanian Danijela Trajković is a Serbian author and translator. Her works have been featured extensively in various poetry anthologies. Only a few literary...

There is No Subject that isn’t Poetic Material – An Interview with Erin Rodoni

Interviews M L - May 1, 2018

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,...