Poetry

Vidyut Aklujkar

Vidyut (Vidyullekha) Aklujkar is an award-winning writer, author of several books of fiction and non-fiction in Marathi...

Gonca Özmen

Translated from the Turkish by Neil P. Doherty The Moon to the one with the mineral eyes I I spoke of these- not to you- but to a woman with a starred foreheadOnce upon a time…...

Aysa Jhorna

Translated from the Bengali by Rajat Chaudhuri Ominous Owl Hasn’t been possible in all this time to get curedof sorrow and moonless nightsYour association’s suspect.In a single life, how much longer can one keepbuilding shelters…...

Varavara Rao

Poetry is Truth that need not be concealed People who do not need a government Life that doesn’t need ambrosia...

Zilka Joseph

Zilka Joseph was nominated twice for a Pushcart, and recently for Best of the Net. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Poetry Daily, Frontier Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Michigan Quarterly Review, Asia Literary Review...

Pina Piccolo

Pina Piccolo is a poet, translator and cultural activist whose work has appeared both in Italian and English, both in print and online journals and anthologies. ...

Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Nabaneeta Dev Sen was a renowned Bengali poet, but equally popular in every genre, including novels, short stories, literary criticism, travelogues, plays, humor, narrative non-fiction, political columns, and children's literature...

Varavara Rao

Companion  Who keeps me company in these premises? The blue sky above, oceans of thoughts within, a shut door and a lock hanging outside, wide open memories and the patience I'm so used to, inside. Are there no human beings here? In which sense! This is solitary confinement to my soul Trees with fruity minds…...

Nirmalendu Goon

The Comparative Hand Wherever you touch me therein dwells my body Wherever you let loose your coiffure and to the earth your hair-washed waters you offer I stretch my palms to receive, I return home carrying with me my own self heavy with water and contents of my sight; Perhaps I do not return but…...