Five Poems by Rony Nair
An Actress dies At a Wedding
One by one they pass away
leaving you and me, apart in tether.
measuring gauges of feeling once imbued.
weighed holdalls....
Poems by Ana Nikvul
Translated by Danijela Trajković
Apricot
When you come back from lunch
honey
come to see
apricot has blossomed
my father planted it when I was a kid
thunder halved it once
but...
Poems by Aditya Shankar
Place
If you walk the streets of the city
that I write about,
you would call me a liar.
The broken wall,
no more a playground ingress
or a sunset...
Poems by Rony Nair
Heb-do
look onward on homing gulls,
guns arriving in somnolence.
your poet mourns his twin tower ebb,
while wordsmiths mash six adverbs a breath.
with tepid rafts one sees...
Two Poems by Mary Shanley
Rilke
Rene continuously rearranged himself.
As he shed layers of historical definition
he eventually received glimpses of the beauty
of his inner world and his larger connection
to...
No Such Thing As Distance – Karen Paul Holmes
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...
Malayalam Poetry : Nazimuddin’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 25
Translated by Aditya Shankar
More than any other genre in Malayalam literature, poetry has articulated the profound contradictions of...
Malayalam Poetry : Bindu Krishnan’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 12
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on...
Poems by Nenad Trajković
Translated by Danijela Trajković
Marketing Fraud
it's good that there are commercials
about great new things
where your consciousness travels to
removed from the courage of the decision
somebody else...
Malayalam Poetry : Anita Thampi’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 17
Translated by Aditya Shankar
The history of modern Malayalam poetry is a narrative of continuous innovation, gradual emancipation from...
