BIO Born on February 5th,1981 in Baisadeeh (Bihar) India, Hareprakash Upadhyay is an important poet and novelist of Hindi literature. His first anthology of poems “Khiladi Dost and Anya Kavitayen” was published by Bhartiya Janapith, bringing ultimate honor to the poet. He also won the “Janapith Navlakekan Puruskar”, an award given by Bhartiya Janapith for…
BIO Robert Pinsky’s recent book of poetry is his Selected Poems. Other publications include his best-selling translation The Inferno of Dante and The Life of David, a prose account of the Biblical king. As Poet Laureate of the United States, he founded the Favorite Poem Project, with the videos at www.favoritepoem.org. . FLOWERS The little…
BIO . .Jennifer Reeser is the author of four full-length poetry collections. Former editor of The Paris Review, X. J. Kennedy, wrote that her debut collection, An Alabaster Flask, (winner of the Word Press First Book Prize), “ought to have been a candidate for a Pulitzer.” Her third book, Sonnets from the Dark Lady and…
BIO Naseer Ahmed Nasir (نصیر احمد ناصر) is one of the most eminent, distinct, cultured and thought provoking poet from Pakistan. He is considered as a trend setter poet of modern Urdu poems among his contemporaries. His poetry has been translated into various international languages such as English, Spanish, Russian, Romanian, Uzbek, Hindi and Persian along…
BIO Co-founder of the Mystic Boxing Commission, Daniel Yaryan is a poet, writer, graphic designer and event producer. He founded Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts, resurrected Poetry Festival Santa Cruz in 2012 and was regarded by the late Los Angeles poet Wanda Coleman as “one of the new generation of poetry mavens.” Yaryan is a devout…
BIO Kedarnath Singh is a prominent Hindi poet, critic and essayist. He was born in Balia district of Uttar Pradesh, India, on July 7th, 1934. He obtained Masters and Ph.D degree from Kashi Hindu Vishwavidyalaya and taught Hindi at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He received India’s highest literary honor Jananpith Award in 2014 for…
BIO Charles Harper Webb’s latest book, What Things Are Made Of, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2013. He is the author of Shadow Ball (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009) and Amplified Dog (Red Hen Press, 2006). He earned a BA in English from Rice University, an MA in English from the University…
BIO . James Ragan is an internationally recognized poet, playwright, and essayist. Translated into 12 languages, he has authored 8 books of poetry including In the Talking Hours, Womb-Weary, The Hunger Wall, Lusions, Selected Poetry, Too Long a Solitude, The World Shouldering I, To Sing Us Out of Silence, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Collected Poems (co-editor) He has read for six heads…
BIO . Born in 1984, Yelena Sapranova is a poet from Russia. She studied at Kuban State University and works in the field of linguistics and translation. She mostly writes in English and translates poetry from the Russian Silver Age (Annensky, Blok, Tsvetaeva..). She is inspired by nature and people she loves. Her activities…
BIO David Mason is a professor of English at The Colorado College and Poet Laureate of Colorado. His books include Ludlow: A Verse Novel, The Country I Remember, Arrivals, News from the Village, The Scarlet Libretto and Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade, 2004-2014. Co-editor of several textbooks and anthologies, he has also published…
BIO Born in the island of Cyprus and living in Western Australia, poet and writer Athina Merkouris is a graduate from Bentley College in Perth. She is a freelance writer and a blogger featured in many online magazines and print media. She is also a film critic at Film and Festival Reviews magazine and an…
BIO Mariano Zaro is the author of four poetry books: Where From/Desde Donde, Poems of Erosion/Poemas de la erosión, The House of Mae Rim/La casa de Mae Rim and Tres letras/Three Letters. Originally from Spain he has been living in Santa Monica, California, since 1994. He teaches Spanish at Rio Hondo College (Whittier, California). More…
