Chandramohan S is one of India’s brightest emerging poetic voices. Identifying himself as a Dalit poet and literary critic based in Trivandrum, his accolades include a shortlist for Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2016. He also was awarded a fellowship at the International Writing Program (IWP-2018) at the University of Iowa.
Ansar Uddin is from West Bengal, India. His connection with farming and farm labor runs deep. He has five collection of short stories and three novels to his name thus far. Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri.
Transitory Space photographs are, in essence, artifacts found and formed at the ambiguous territory where the human consciousness interacts with space that appears forever present yet keeps morphing through the ungraspable, corridor of time.
A prominent writer and cultural figure in Brazil, where he lived for the first part of his life, and in Italy, where he lived until his death, Julio Monteiro Martins’ final poetry collection, La grazia di casa mia (The Grace of My Home), was published in Italian in 2013 (Rediviva Edizioni, Milan)
One of them had started for Venice, Italy. Marco Polo, the wanderer, on his way back to Venice, had arrived in a new country. So began this world-travelogue.
Between you, me and our hatred for each other
an ocean came.
This week, to honor the languages and the magic they are capable of as they shape-shift one onto another, we have had ARUNAVA SINHA, a prolific translator and teacher of Creative writing from India bare his heart about the process.
What is country but a borderless Sentence
So far they’ve lived across continents and worlds and mentalities. I suppose all my protagonists are also me, in some sense, or having an animated argument with me. So far, though, none of them have lived on other planets or galaxies, and so on. I guess I love this planet too much