The Cultural Centre of Vijayawada and Amaravati (CCVA), Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India, is engaged in the promotion of literature, art and culture. CCVA is the CSR arm of the Malaxmi Group, with Mr. Y. Harish Chandra Prasad (The Chairman, Malaxmi Group) and Dr. Y Tejaswini (The Executive Director, Malaxmi Group) the Founders, Dr. E. Siva…
Cameron Morse
BIO Cameron Morse taught and studied in China. Diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2014, he is currently a third-year MFA candidate at UMKC and lives with his wife, Lili, in Blue Springs, Missouri. His poems have been or will be published in over 50 different magazines, including New Letters, Pamplemousse, Fourth & Sycamore and…
Gale Acuff
BIO Gale Acuff has poetry published in Ascent, Santa Barbara Review, Descant, Ohio Journal, South Dakota Review, Grasslands Review, Poem, Maryland Poetry Review, South Carolina Review, Florida Review, Adirondack Review, and many other journals. He have authored three books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel (BrickHouse Press, 2004), The Weight of the World (BrickHouse, 2006), and The…
Sergio A. Ortiz
BIO Sergio A. Ortiz is a two-time Pushcart nominee, a four-time Best of the Web nominee, and 2016 Best of the Net nominee. 2nd place in the 2016 Ramón Ataz Annual Poetry Competition. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in FRIGG, Tipton Poetry Journal, Drunk Monkeys, Bitterzeot Magazine, and *ONE*: Jacar Press. He is currently working on…
Simon Perchik
BIO Simon Perchik lives in New York. His poetry has appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, The New Yorker and elsewhere. .T THREE POEMS Her chest no longer listening though both your arms stay folded one over the other, wet the way these dead dare each night to arrive without them –you stand in front…
Thomas Piekarski
BIO Thomas Piekarski is a former editor of the California State Poetry Quarterly and Pushcart Prize nominee. His poetry and interviews have appeared widely in literary journals internationally, including Nimrod, Portland Review, Mandala Journal, Cream City Review, Poetry Salzburg, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Boston Poetry Magazine, and Poetry Quarterly. He has published a travel book, Best Choices In Northern California,…
REVIEW: CAPITALS
CAPITALS: A Poetry Anthology – Abhay K. Review by Saba Mahmood Bashir Paperback: 399 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury Language: English ISBN: 978-93-86141-11-8 To know a country with a poem on its capital is an idea which is unique in itself. Resonating with the intrinsic culture of that place, it accentuates the ethos through various parameters. Capitals:…
Nasadiya Sukta (The Hymn of Creation) Translated by A.L. Basham
. Nasadiya Sukta, (the hymn of creation) is a part of the Rigveda (10:129). The Rigveda is the oldest Indian text written in Sanskrit, in around 1500 BC. It consists of 1,028 hymns and 10,600 verses, that are organized into ten books. The Rigveda, is the oldest of all four Vedas. It was composed over the period…
Ghazals by Agha Shahid Ali and Christopher Merrill
“Land” by Agha Shahid Ali A Ghazal by Christopher Merrill . . .
Hotel Poetry, Three Poems by Christopher Merrill
Hotel Poetry, Three Poems by Christopher Merrill Video Courtesy – Ramsha Ashraf
Margot: A Short Story by Vishwa Chitnis
. Pascal Roux felt the gleam of the morning sun as he rose his head to adjust the bridge of his Plume styled glasses. He found himself sitting on the edge of his old Matelasse sofa with inverted knees and an overwhelming stream of consciousness. The repetition of his tapping foot mirrored his thoughts. Margot,…
Nidarsh Raj: Translated by Vidya Panicker
BIO Born on 4th January, 2001, Nidarsh Raj is a school student studying at Plus 2 level at Athavanad Govt Higher Secondary School at Malappuram, Kerala, India. . BIO Translator Vidya Panicker’s poems have been published in The feminist review (UK), Muse India, CLRI, Reading hour, Femina fiction and Indian review, among others. She has…