Life and Legends is pleased to announce a new feature, “Poem-a Week,” beginning from June 1st, 2021. The weekly blog will feature new and published poems on varied themes, including topical events by new and previously published poets of Life and Legends, chosen by our editorial team. The poem in this series will appear every Tuesday of the week. We hope you enjoy this feature. We welcome your valuable comments and testimonials.
The winter 2020 edition of Life and Legends is ready, and I am thrilled to present it to our readers with the trust that it brings somewhat joy to you at the end of a very long year marred by the Pandemic.
. Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud ‘War Poetry for Today‘ competition and has been nominated…
. Megha Sood is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet writer and editor. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. She is a contributing author at GoDogGO Cafe, Candles Online, Free Verse Revolution, Whisper and the Roar, Poets Corner and contributing editor at Ariel Chart. Her 290+ works have been featured in 521 Magazine #Sideshow, Oddball,…
. Ram Krishna Singh has been writing for about four decades. Professionally, till the end of 2015, Professor of English (HAG) at IIT-ISM in Dhanbad, he has published more than 160 research articles, 175 book reviews and 46 books, including God Too Awaits Light (2017), Growing Within (2017), There’s No Paradise and Other Selected Poems…
. Dr. Roger Singer is the Poet Laureate of Old Lyme, Connecticut. He has had over 1,150 poems published on the internet, magazines and in books and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee. He is also the President of the Shoreline Chapter of the Connecticut Poetry Society. Some of the magazines that have accepted his…
. Sanjeev Sethi is published in over 30 countries. He has more than 1400 poems printed or posted in literary venues around the world. Wrappings in Bespoke, is joint-winner of Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press UK. It is his fourth book. It will be launched in Jan 2021. He lives…
. Benjamin Schmitt is the author of three books, most recently Soundtrack to a Fleeting Masculinity. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Antioch Review, The Good Men Project, Hobart, Worcester Review, Columbia Review, and elsewhere. A co-founder of Pacifica Writers’ Workshop, he has also written articles for The Seattle Times and At…
. Mark Parsons’ poems have been published in Chariton Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Iodine Poetry Journal, subTerrain, Emerge, Mad Hat Lit, Wisconsin Review, and elsewhere. . Were I To Say . That every time I hear your name I’ll think of dead mosquitoes, or dead AA battery cells, or buying a watch from a watch…
. Michael Milligan has worked as a construction laborer, migrant fruit and grape picker, homestead farmer and graphic arts production manager. He is a survivor. He took his MFA in Creative Writing at Bennington College co-founded of Poetry Oasis Worcester and was privileged to be an editor with Diner. His poetry book reviews, fiction and…
. Stephen Mead is a multi-media artist and writer. He is resident artist/curator for The Chroma Museum, artistic renderings of LGBTQI historical figures, organizations, and allies predominantly before Stonewall. https://thestephenmeadchromamuseum.weebly.com/ , New Letters Never for keeps, this heart heavy because it’s full: Anne Sexton’s Damariscotta blue berries bunching up knuckle-ripe with stock sentiments really genuine….
. Jean L. Kreiling is a Professor of Music at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts and the author of two collections of poetry, both available at amazon.com: Arts & Letters & Love (2018) and The Truth in Dissonance (2014). She is a past winner of the Able Muse Write Prize, the Great Lakes Commonwealth of…
