BIO Honoured with Member Of The Most Excellent Order Of The British Empire (MBE) for Literature, in the Queen’s New Year Honours list 2020, Yogesh Patel is a writer, poet and editor of Skylark. He runs Skylark Publications UK as well as a non-profit Word Masala project to promote SA diaspora literature. A founder of the literary charity,…
Invocation: A Prayer for My Mother in Kashmir (Poetry Video)
POETRY VIDEO Invocation: A Prayer for My Mother in Kashmir by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis . .
Sanity Amidst the Chaos: The Fifth Anniversary Edition of Life and Legends
Editorial Sanity Amidst the Chaos: The Fifth Anniversary Edition of Life and Legends On June 15th, 2014, when the First Edition of Life and Legends was published online from Irvine, California, in the United States, that day, the full moon had occurred in Sagittarius, the sign of the Truth-speaker and Truth-seeker. Like the waxing…
Uday Prakash: Translated by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
BIO Born on January 1st, 1951, in the village of Sitapur, Madhya Pradesh, India, Uday Praksh (उदय प्रकाश) is a significant name in Hindi literature. He is known for his poetry collections – Ambar Mein Ababeel (2019), Raat Mein Harmonium (1998), EK Bhasha Hua Karati Hai (2009), Abootar Kabootar (1984), and Suno kārīgara (1980). Uday Prakash is also a novelist, story writer, essayist, and translator. He…
Indigenous: An Interview with Jennifer Reeser, by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Five years ago, I had the opportunity to publish Jennifer Reeser’s poems in the inaugural issue of Life and legends. That was my first introduction to Jennifer Reeser and her poetry. And although her name did not bear any particular identity, other than her being an American, whose ancestors might have come on the May…
Book Review: Sita (A Poem) by Nandini Sahu
Sita ( A Poem) Nandini Sahu Review by Dr Sutanuka Ghosh Roy Paperback: 129 pages Publisher: The Poetry Society of India Language: English ISBN: 978-93-83888-19-1 This book of poetry attempts to deconstruct the epic subject of the female stereotype. Epic is a predominantly masculine form of poetic utterance; history of literature as well as…
Katyayani: Translated by Shelly Bhoil
BIO Katyayani is an Indian poet of Hindi language. She is the author of ‘Footpath Par Kursi’ (2009), ‘Jadu Nahi Kavita’ (2002), ‘Saat Bhaiyon Ke Beech Champa’ (1994). Her poems have been translated into English and Russian. . BIO Shelly Bhoil is a Brazil-based writer from India. Her works include a poetry book An Ember…
Dr. Khader Moh. Abu Jahjouh
BIO Dr. Khader Moh. Abu Jahjouh is a poet from Gaza, lives in the territory of the Palestinian Authority, his poems appear broadly online. He has published seven books of poetry and two books of literary criticism. Nightingale of My Heart Rain, drop by drop is drawing a picture of hope above the dilapidated…
Stuart Gunter
BIO Stuart Gunter is working toward a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling and lives in Schuyler, Virginia. He likes to paddle the Rockfish River and play drums in obscure rock bands. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in London Grip, Gravel, Deep South, Streetlight, and The Madison Review, among others. Beach Vendor…
Roger Camp
BIO Roger Camp lives in Seal Beach, California. His work has appeared in the Chiron Review, North American Review, Southern Poetry Review and Nimrod. Gunga Din: Reincarnation* An’ I’ll get a swig in Hell from Gunga Din! –Rudyard Kipling Kovalam beach is awash with Westerners, old India hands sloshed in gin hippies, smoked in…
Jan Wiezorek
. BIO Jan Wiezorek writes from Barron Lake in Michigan. He has taught writing at St. Augustine College, Chicago, and his poetry has appeared or is forthcoming at The London Magazine, Yes Poetry, L’Ephemere Review, Words Dance, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Leaping Clear, and Cabildo Quarterly. Jan is author of Awesome Art Projects That Spark Super…
Simone Liggins
BIO Simone Liggins earned her MFA in Writing at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics of Naropa University. The foundation for her love of writing and literature was paved at an early age and blossomed during her teenage years through the kind of tortured freedom that only the ostracism & funk-weirdness of being…