Poems by Sivakumar Ambalapuzha
Translated from Malayalam by the Poet
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Abu Salim the Actor
She introduced herself as Vismaya
While parting with a handshake
You called her Maya
In a short time you...
Three Poems by Sukanta Mandal
That Person
I am the person of famine
I am the person of humiliation
I am the person of curses
I am a person with many sufferings.
You can...
Tanka : Gabriel Rosenstock & Margaret McCarthy
Gabriel Rosenstock's Tanka are paired with the black and white landscape photographs of standing stone structures captured by the photographer, Margaret McCarthy. The Tanka...
Poems by E. Martin Pedersen
3 Hours in the Pediatric Ward
babies crying
but not my baby, she’s okay
each mother's eyes full of empty
fear for their creatures
but they're not my baby's...
Poems by Rose George
Powder Puff
The slender red needles
On the dark green platter
Tacked with hardknots
And stitched,
When I asked for the name
Said Powder Puff
And Laughed
Recalled the earthly declaration
That eyes...
Four Poems by José Luis Álvarez Escontrela
Ezra Pound Writes His Elegy
The winter arrived early on the doorsteps,
little ponds of stars freeze beneath thy feet
as the last sun dies on the...
Poems by Devika Mathur
A Shadow
I am a woman of soft auburn dreams/ a soft noise that appears after a thunder/ you wish to dissolve my nectar into...
Three Poems by Glen Armstrong
Last Night on Earth
The very act of waiting
makes the case
for continuation.
Ask the core
of some old tree how death
and wood collaborate.
On the Floor
Take me...
Two Poems by Amrita Valan
When Mother Is No More
On the road to forever.
By the way of stars.
Cluster of constellations
Gateways to her.
Our journeys begin and end on different...
Poems by Yoosaph A.K
Hangmen
They came to kill me
With weapons unknown
In roguish whirlwind
Uttering my name like a magic hum.
Rural is our vicinity,
Though vicious and vile
Their hidden souls.
Brandishing their...