BIO Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7th, 1861 at Jorasanko, Kolkata, and was nurtured under transcendental culture and heritage of Vedic philosophy, Sufism and pursuit of art and literature that later characterized his life. His grandfather, Dwarakanath Tagore was an aristocrat and a business icon. His father Debendranath, was a reformist and had profound…
. “For a day, just for one day, Talk about that which disturbs no one And bring some peace into your Beautiful eyes.” .~ .“Even after all this time The sun never says to the earth, “You owe Me. Look what happens with A love like that, It lights the Whole Sky.” ~ . Hāfez-e…
BIO Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, author of Plus loin qu’ailleurs (Éditions du Cygne, 2013), is published in numerous anthologies of short stories and poetry, including Petite anthologie de la jeune poésie française (Éditions Géhess, 2009), Le livre de la prière (Éditions de l’Inférieur, 2013), and Poètes français et marocains, Anthologie 2 (Éditions Polyglotte, 2014), in the literary…
BIO Rodica Draghincescu is a writer, poet and translator. She writes in French and Romanian. She lives in METZ, France, and has published, poetry, novels, books of interviews and literary essays. Her latest book is a poetry collection, RA(ts), illustrated by engraver Marc Granier (Éditions du Petit Pois, 2012). The book won VIRGIL prize for European…
. “I have arrived. I am home. In the here. In the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.” . ~ . “Don’t say that I’ll depart tomorrow – even today I’m still arriving. Look deeply: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to…
BIO Jenny Factor’s first collection, Unraveling at the Name (Copper Canyon Press), was a finalist for the 2002 Lambda Literary Award. With poems in the Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Nerve.com, and more than a dozen anthologies, including The Best American Erotic Poems (Scribner, 2008), Jenny’s poems have been honored with a Hayden Carruth Award…
BIO Dean Pasch is a visual artist, poet and filmmaker – born in England, he has lived in Germany since 1980. His poetry has featured in Mannequin Envy, Niederngasse, Tiferet, Quill & Parchment, and in books – ‘Chopin with Cherries’ (Moonrise Press) and ‘Woman in Metaphor’ (Natural Healing House Press). He has also presented his…
BIO Marc Vincenz is Swiss-British and was born in Hong Kong. His recent collections are: Gods of a Ransacked Century, Mao’s Mole, Behind the Wall at the Sugar Works, Beautiful Rush, Additional Breathing Exercises and forthcoming from Lavender Ink, This Wasted Land and its Chymical Illuminations. Marc is Executive Editor of MadHat (Mad Hatters’ Review), MadHat Press, and Coeditor-in-Chief of Fulcrum:…
BIO Margaret Saine was born in Germany and lives in Southern California. She writes poetry, haiku, and short stories in five languages, also translating other poets in those languages. Her books are “Bodyscapes,” “Words of Art,” 5 haiku chapbooks, plus the mss. “Awkward Child” (in German, to be published), “The Five Senses,” “Lo efímero queda”…
BIO Born and brought up in West Bengal, India, Sonnet Mondal is an Indian English poet and the Founder of The Enchanting Verses Literary Review. He has authored eight book of poetry and his work has appeared in The Stremez, The Sheepshead Review (University of Wisconsin, Green Bay), The Penguin Review (Youngstown State University), Two Thirds North (Stockholm…
BIO Born in 1956, Dr. Sarojini Sahoo earned her Masters and PhD degrees in Oriya Literature, and a Bachelor of Law degree from Utkal University. She teaches at a degree college in Belpahar, Jharsuguda, Orissa, India. A distinguished South Asian feminist writer Sarojini is also an associate editor of an English journal Indian Age, and…
