. Marina Kazakova (b. Gorky, Russia, 1983) is a Russian-born Belgium-based poet. Published internationally in magazines and journals (Three Rooms Press “Maintenant”, “AntiNarrative Journal”, “Crannog”, “Duck Lake Books”, “Writing in a Woman’s Voice”), Marina is a frequent performer, she has been shortlisted at different poetry/ film-poetry competitions and was awarded various prizes. She is the…
. Patrick Theron Erickson, a resident of Garland, Texas, a Tree City, just south of Duck Creek, is a retired parish pastor put out to pasture himself. His work has appeared in Grey Sparrow Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal, and The Main Street Rag, among other publications, and more recently in Torrid Literature Journal, South Florida…
. Stephen Anderson is a Milwaukee poet whose work has appeared in Southwest Review, Verse Wisconsin, Foundling Review, Twist In Time, Tipton Poetry Journal, New Purlieu Review, Free Verse as well as in numerous other print and online journals. Many of his poems have been featured on the Milwaukee NPR affiliate WUWM Lake Effect Program….
. Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca was born and raised in a Jewish family in Mumbai. She was educated at the Queen Mary School, Mumbai, received her BA in English and French, an MA from the University of Bombay in English and American Literature, and a Master’s in Education from Oxford Brookes University, England. She has taught…
Donna Snyder lives and writes in the borderlands of Mexico and the United States. She founded the Tumblewords Project in 1995 and organizes its free events in El Paso, Texas. She has published three poetry collections, and her poetry and prose have appeared in journals and anthologies. An animal lover, she adopts both from the…
Shanta Acharya DPhil (Oxon) was born and educated in Cuttack, Odisha. She won a scholarship to Oxford, where she was among the first batch of women admitted to Worcester College. After completing her doctoral degree, she was appointed a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English and American Literature and Languages at Harvard University. Since…
Born to Argentine parents in Sala Capriasca in 1892, Alfonsina Storni received part of her education in Switzerland, while spending her working years in her country’s capital of Buenos Aires. Storni was familiar, if not a part, of early 20th century modernism, though she has often been characterized as uniquely postmodern. Early influences include…
Vadim Molodiy was born in Moscow, 1947. He studied medicine and received a degree in psychiatry. During his professional career he worked as psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. In literary circles he is known as a poet, essayist and publisher. His works have appeared in numerous periodicals in Russia, Europe and USA. He is the author…
Kazi Nazrul Islam (24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, writer, musician and the national poet of Bangladesh. Popularly known as Nazrul, he produced a large body of literary works with themes that included religious devotion and rebellion against oppression. Nazrul’s activism for political and social justice earned him the title of “Bidrohi Kobi” (Rebel Poet). His compositions form the famous genre of Nazrul Geeti…
. Vidya Golam was a pioneer of Mauritian Kreol literature and a prominent voice of Mauritian unity and solidarity. His works include Voltiz Tu, Kanser [Cancer], Disab dan Liziye [Sand in the Eye], Lonorab Yago [The Honorable Iago], and Ti Bato Papye [The Little Paper Boat]. The poems from the collection, “Voltiz Tu” won a…
It was a hot summer, and I was “sweating” my physics final exam. I was required to take physics for a second time during summer school after failing the course during the Spring Quarter of my sophomore year in college. I was also “sweating” the grueling, twelve-hour days. I was working as a rideshare driver….
The eyes of the cougar were aflame in the light of the morning sun. The sun cast sparkles off the snow so bright it made him blink. He sat on the bank of the Grand River with one paw lightly resting on a drift of blood-sprinkled snow. He lifted his proud head to smell the…
