Poems by Ranjith Sivaraman
Cloak of Solitude
When her eyes are blank and cold
When there are no ripples of warmth
When they are like a frozen brook in a new...
Poems by Karen Paul Holmes
Teaching Mozart in Stone Mountain Prison
I didn’t know what crimes they’d committed,
those twelve guys glaring at me.
No female had taught there before,
so I wore...
Poems by Prathap Kamath
Burnt down forest
It is bad when about sixteen years of life
lie like a patch of burnt down forest –
black, charcoaled, ash-bordered,
...
Two Poems by Kalyani Bindu
My Imagination of You
My imagination of You departs
like an impending recollection of a dream-
a narrative between shadows, colorless
with welcoming, stretchable dimensions,
lily shadows in...
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: A Look Through the Lenses of Zen Buddhism and...
In his poem Can Palat W.S. Merwin reminisces about an abandoned, hillside farmstead he encountered as a young man. On a terrace he finds
an...
Every Sheath is Torn – Photo Haiku by Gabriel Rosenstock
Photography By Youngho Kang
1.
throbbing dawn . . .
everything becomes
something else
2.
when every sheath
is torn from us . . .
what then?
3.
before the filthy birth
of Time ....
Poems by Gary Beck
Cold Spell II
Winter lingers on
stubbornly refusing
to allow Spring thaw.
The sparrows sit
on icy benches
crying to a chilled chorus
for warmer days.
Erasure
Escape from reality
is an American trait.
More...
Malayalam Poetry : N. G. Unnikrishnan’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 14
Translated by Aditya Shankar
The history of modern Malayalam poetry is a narrative of continuous innovation, gradual emancipation from...
I will Run I will Live – A Poem by Rimli Bhattacharya
I will run I will live
His words rang in her mind –
“I never loved you” .
She closed her ears,
To...
Malayalam Poetry : Sreekumar Kariyad’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 30
Translated by Aditya Shankar
More than any other genre in Malayalam literature, poetry has articulated the profound contradictions of...
