BIO Brought up in Delhi in a family of liberal educationists, Tikuli is a mother of two sons. She is also a blogger and author. Some of her short stories and poems have appeared in print and in online journals and literary magazines including Le Zaparougue, MiCROW 8, Troubadour21, The Smoking Book (Poets Wear…
Margaret Saine: Translated by Agnes Rosenblüth
BIO Margaret Saine was born in Germany and lives in Southern California. She writes poetry, haiku, and short stories in five languages, also translating other poets in those languages. Her books are “Bodyscapes,” “Words of Art,” 5 haiku chapbooks, plus the mss. “Awkward Child” (in German, to be published), “The Five Senses,” “Lo efímero queda”…
Sukrita Paul Kumar
BIO Sukrita Paul Kumar, born in Kenya, currently lives in Delhi, writing poetry and teaching literature. An Honorary Fellow of the prestigious International Writing Program, University of Iowa (USA), Cambridge Seminars and a former Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, she was also an invited poet in residence at Hong Kong Baptist…
Ambika Talwar: Poetry inspired by Cinema
BIO AMBIKA TALWAR is an educator, author and artist, who has written poetry since her teen years. She has authored Creative Resonance: Poetry—Elegant Play, Elegant Change; 4 Stars & 25 Roses; and other chapbooks. Her style is ecstatic making her poetry a “bridge to other worlds.” She is published in Kyoto Journal, Inkwater Ink –…
Charles Baudelaire: Translated by Jennifer Reeser
BIO Charles Baudelaire was born on April 9th in 1821 in Paris, France and died there forty-six years later on the 31st of August in 1867. He is considered one of the most influential French poets in history and one of the greatest poets of the 19th century influencing an era of poetic symbolism. He was…
Ambika Talwar
BIO Ambika Talwar is an educator, author and artist, who has written poetry since her teen years. She has authored Creative Resonance: Poetry—Elegant Play, Elegant Change; 4 Stars & 25 Roses; and other chapbooks. Her style is ecstatic making her poetry a “bridge to other worlds.” She is published in Kyoto Journal, Inkwater Ink –…
Laura Mucelli Klemm: Translated by Margaret Saine
BIO Laura Mucelli Klemm was born in 1964 at Forbach in Lorraine, France, the child of Italian immigrants. In addition to French, she has been writing poems in her native Italian. After studying languages and literatures at the university of Nancy, she became a certified court translator and interpreter, and after further studies, a high…
Emmanuel Itier
BIO An experienced feature film Producer, Emmanuel Itier directed the thriller ‘Tell me no Lies’ (2000) and the horror film ‘Scarecrow’ (2002). He completed in 2012 the Peace documentary ‘The Invocation’ narrated by Sharon Stone and with Desmond Tutu, HH The Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra and many others worldwide peace activists. Emmanuel Itier has…
George Jisho
BIO George Jisho Robertson is 79. He was first and always a teacher of literature and an advocate for children, becoming an innovative senior high principal in three schools. In 1990 he became a Zen priest. From 2008 he has lived in London, UK where he devotes his life to family, poetry, photographic art and…
Philip Quinlan
BIO Philip Quinlan is the author of a chapbook, Head Lands (White Violet Press, 2012). He received nominations, in 2011, for both The Best of the Net and Pushcart. His work has appeared in: The Flea, The Chimaera, Lucid Rhythms, Lilt, Soundzine, Numinous, The Avatar Review, The Centrifugal Eye, Sea Stories, Shit Creek Review, Shot…
Life, Legends and Legacies : An Interview with Arun Gandhi, by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, Arun Gandhi is the fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi. Growing up under the discriminatory apartheid laws of South Africa, he was beaten by “white” South Africans for being too black and “black” South Africans for being too white; so, Arun sought eye-for-an-eye justice….
Gail White
BIO Gail White’s fourth poetry collection, Asperity Street, will be published in 2015 by Able Muse Press. She has won the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award for 2012 and 2013. She lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana with her husband and cats. DESDEMONA Othello was exotic – always dressed In gold and red, black as a…