BIO Natalie Goldberg is the author of Writing Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer Within, which broke open the world of creativity and started a revolution in the way we practice writing in this country. Since then she has written fourteen other books, including the novel Banana Rose. Goldberg is also a prolific painter. Her…
Sally Cook
BIO . Sally Cook is both artist and poet. Her poems and essays appear with regularity in many national print journals. Often inspired to relate human vagaries to those in nature, she gains inspiration from her somewhat reclusive life in the country. She has received numerous scholarships and awards and is a five time…
Carl Stilwell
BIO Carl Stilwell is a retired teacher of Los Angeles City Schools. His poems have been published in Blue Collar Review, Canary, Lummox, November 3 poetry blog, Pearl, Prism, Revolutionary Poets Brigade–Los Angeles, Struggle and Verse-Virtual. He won first place for best western in Golden Words 20-03-2004 Poetry Competition. He also has poems included in the…
Ram Krishna Singh
Bio Ram Krishna Singh, born, brought up and educated in Varanasi, India, is a university professor with active interest in poetry and English language teaching. He has authored more than 160 research articles, 170 book reviews and 39 books. Many of his poems have been translated into Italian, Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, Greek, Crimean Tatar,…
Suman Pokhrel: Translated by Dr. Abhi Subedi
BIO Suman Pokhrel (सुमन पोखरेल) born on September 21, 1967, is a multilingual Nepali poet, lyricist and translator as well as an artist. He is one of the finest Nepali poets today known for innovative style and grace. He has acclaimed collections of poems in Nepali entitled Soonya Mutuko Dhadkanbhitra (1999) (Within the Beats of Beat…
Christina Rossetti
BIO Christina Rossetti, in full Christina Georgina Rossetti, pseudonym Ellen Alleyne (born Dec. 5, 1830, London, Eng.—died Dec. 29, 1894, London), one of the most important of English women poets both in range and quality. She excelled in works of fantasy, in poems for children, and in religious poetry. . Con miglior corso e con migliore stella. – Dante La vita fugge e non s’arresta un’…
Under the Tamarind Tree – A Secret Journey Into Our Souls, by John Harrichran
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Literature and Art of Cinema directed by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
“Literature and Art of Cinema” workshop was offered for the first time at the 2014 Silent River Film Festival in Irvine to introduce new techniques in creatives writing. The purpose of the workshop is to bring literature and art of cinema together, have the poets and writers interact with filmmakers and actors to explore all…
REVIEW: Man Outside History
A Man Outside History Poems by Naseer Ahmed Nasir Review by Kamran Awan A Man Outside History Paperback: 173 pages Publisher: Lifi Publications, New Delhi, ( 2014) Language: English Poems English translationCopyright: Bina Biswas ISBN: 978-93-82536-67-3 A Man Outside History… as the title suggests, Naseer Ahmed Nasir’s poems are not confined to the boundaries of a specific era, geographical…