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    • 2010-2013 >
      • Sylvia Plath by Dr. Nidhi Mehta >
        • Chapter-1(Sylvia Plath)
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      • Prose Poems of Tagore by Dr. Bina Biswas >
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      • Kazi Nazrul Islam by Dr. Shamenaz Shaikh >
        • Chapter 1(Nazrul Islam)
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        • Chapter 3(Nazrul Islam)
      • Kabir's Poetry by Dr. Anshu Pandey >
        • Chapter 1(Kabir's Poetry)
        • Chapter 2(Kabir's Poetry)
        • Chapter 3(Kabir's Poetry)
      • My mind's not right by Dr. Vicky Gilpin >
        • Chapter- 1 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
        • Chapter-2 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
        • Chapter-3 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
        • Chapter-4 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
      • On Poetry & Poets by Abhay K.
      • Poetry of Kamla Das –A True Voice Of Bourgeoisie Women In India by Dr.Shikha Saxena
      • Identity Issues in the Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel by Dr.Arvind Nawale & Prashant Mothe*
      • Nissim Ezekiel’s Latter-Day Psalms: His Religious and Philosophical Speculations By Dr. Pallavi Srivastava
      • The Moping Owl : the Epitome of Melancholy by Zinia Mitra
      • Gary Soto’s Vision of Chicano Experiences: The Elements of San Joaquin and Human Nature by Paula Hayes
      • Sri Aurobindo: A Poet By Aju Mukhopadhyay
      • Wordsworthian Romanticism in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra: Nature and the Reflective Capabilities of a Poetic Self by Paula Hayes
      • Reflective Journey of T.S. Eliot: From Philosophy to Poetry by Syed Ahmad Raza Abidi
      • North East Indian Poetry: ‘Peace’ in Violence by Ananya .S. Guha
    • 2014-2015 >
      • From The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry Adam Wyeth
      • Alchemy’s Drama: Conflict, Resolution and Poiesis in the Poetic Work of Art by Michelle Bitting
      • Amir Khushrau: The Musical Soul of India by Dr. Shamenaz
      • PUT YOUR HANDS ON ME: POETRY'S EROTIC ART by Elena Karina Byrne
      • Celtic and Urban Landscapes in Irish Poetry by Linda Ibbotson
      • Trickster at the African Crossroads and the Bridge to the Blues in America by Michelle Bitting
    • 2015-2016 >
      • Orogeny/Erogeny: The “nonsense” of language and the poetics of Ed Dorn T Thilleman
      • Erika Burkart: Fragments, Shards, and Visions by Marc Vincenz
      • English Women Poets and Indian politics
    • 2016-2017 >
      • Children’s Poetry in India- A Case Study of Adil Jussawalla and Ananya Guha by Shruti Sareen
      • Thirteen Thoughts on Poetry in the Digital Age by Mandy kAHN
    • 2017-2018 >
      • From Self-Portrait with Dogwood: A Route of Evanescence by Christopher Merrill
      • Impure Poetry by Tony Barnstone
      • On the Poets: Contributors in Context by Donald Gardner
      • Punching above its Weight: Dutch Poetry in English, a Selection, 2013-2017 by Jane Draycott
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Feaured Poets for ISSUE-XV March 2012

The Enchanting Poet -Roger Humes

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Roger Humes is a poet, editor and computer graphic artist from Claremont, California. He is the Founder Director of The Other Voices International Project and the International Poetry Editor for Harvest International, an annual arts and literature magazine. His works have been featured in Arabesques Review, Sentinel Poetry magazine, Hudson View, Art Arena, Poetic Diversity and many others. He has released a chapbook, there sings no bird.

Editor's Choice -Joan McNerney

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Joan McNerney was born in Brooklyn, New York and now resides in Ravena, a town outside of Albany, New York. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from the Board of Regents, New York State Excelsior University. Most of her professional background has been spent in the advertising business. Her poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Blueline, 63 channels, Spectrum, and three Bright Spring Press Anthologies. She was recently nominated for “Best of the Net” 2011. Four of her books have been published by fine small literary presses. She has recited her work at the National Arts Club, Russell Sage College, McNay Art Institute and other distinguished venues. A recent reading was sponsored by the American Academy of Poetry.

Feaured Poets for ISSUE-XVI July 2012

The Enchanting Poet -Perie Longo

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Perie Longo, PhD, is Poet Laureate Emerita of Santa Barbara, California (2007-09), a teacher through the California Poets in the Schools since 1986, the annual Santa Barbara Writers Conference, and teaches poetry privately. Also a psychotherapist, she integrates poetry with her practice. In 2005 she was invited by the University of Kuwait to speak about the power of poetry for healing and to give workshops to several different groups and hospitals on the subject. She works with Sanctuary Psychiatric Centers, and Hospice of Santa Barbara.

           She has authored three books of poetry, The Privacy of Wind, Milking the Earth and With Nothing behind but Sky: a journey through grief.  Her poems have been published in numerous journals including Atlanta Review, California Quarterly, The Connecticut Review, The Prairie Schooner, International Poetry Review, Nimrod, Passager, The Paterson Review, Quercus Review, Rattle, Studia Mystica, and several anthologies.  

           A past president of the National Association for Poetry Therapy, she is a long-time mentor teacher for certification in this field. In 1998 she received their “Outstanding Achievement Award.” In 1999 she was the keynote speaker for their annual conference, giving a talk titled “Gathered Around the Heart of the Fire” and in 2004 she was given the “Distinguished Service Award.” She has published several articles on the effectiveness of Poetry Therapy in The Journal of Poetry Therapy and The Therapist. Recently she received a Woman of Achievement Award from the Association of Women in Communication-Santa Barbara Chapter.


Editor's Choice - Hélène Cardona

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Hélène Cardona is a poet, literary translator and actor, whose most recent books include Life in Suspension and Dreaming My Animal Selves (both from Salmon Poetry), and the translations Beyond Elsewhere (Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, White Pine Press), winner of a Hemingway Grant; Ce que nous portons (Dorianne Laux, Éditions du Cygne), and Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings for WhitmanWeb. 

    She has also translated Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Aloysius Bertrand, Maram Al-Masri, Eric Sarner, René Depestre, Ernest Pépin, Jean-Claude Renard, Nicolas Grenier, and her father José Manuel Cardona. A Romanian translation of Dreaming My Animal Selves was published by Junimea Editions in 2016. Her work has been translated into 13 languages.

    She contributes essays to The London Magazine, is co-international editor of Plume, and managing editor of Fulcrum: An Anthology of Poetry and Aesthetics. She holds a Master’s in American Literature from the Sorbonne, received fellowships from the Goethe-Institut and Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, worked as a translator for the Canadian Embassy in Paris, and taught at Hamilton College and Loyola Marymount University. 

    Publications include Washington Square Review, World Literature Today, Poetry International, Dublin Review of Books, Asymptote, The Brooklyn Rail, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Warwick Review, Irish Literary Times, Poetry Salzburg Review, and elsewhere.​

Acting credits include Chocolat, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Jurassic World, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Mad Max: Fury Road, Inception, and Mumford. She is the Computer voice in the TV series Heroes Reborn and her many voice characters include Happy Feet 2 and Muppets Most Wanted. For Serendipity she co-wrote with director Peter Chelsom and composer Alan Silvestri the song Lucienne, which she also sang.   http://helenecardona.com



Feaured Poets for ISSUE-XVII November 2012

The Enchanting Poet -Sayed Gouda

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Sayed Gouda (b. 1968, Cairo) is an Egyptian poet, novelist and translator. He majored in the Chinese language. Sayed Gouda won a first prize of poetry in 1990 before he migrated to Hong Kong in 1992. His works and translations have appeared in Arabic, English, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Macedonian, Uzbek, Thai and Mongolian. He has translated hundreds of poems from and into Arabic, Chinese and English, which have already been published in several periodicals in Egypt, China and Hong Kong. Currently he is the editor of a literary website called Nadwah in five languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French and German. Sayed Gouda has organized a monthly literary salon in Hong Kong since April 2004. He has been invited to participate in many international poetry festivals around the world like Man Hong Kong Literary Festival in Hong Kong (2002–2007), International Poetry Festival of Cairo in Egypt (2007, 2009), Qinghai International Poetry Festival in China (2007 & 2011), Struga Poetry Evenings in Macedonia (2009) and so on.

          Published works: The Smoke of Love – a book of Arabic poetry published in Cairo in 1990; The Sad Questions of Cassandra – a book of Arabic poetry published in Cairo in 2005; Between a Broken Dream and Hope – a book of Arabic poetry published in Cairo in 2005; Once Upon a Time in Cairo – English novel published in Hong Kong in 2006; Bottle of Glue – a collection of poems translated from Arabic into Chinese and English published in Hong Kong in 2007; Prophet of the Poets – a collection of poems translated in Macedonian language published in Macedonia in 2008; Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry translated in English and Chinese (upcoming publication); Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry translated in Arabic (upcoming publication).


Editor's Choice -Sllave Gjorgjo Dimoski

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Sllave Gjorgjo Dimoski is an award-winning Macedonian poet and essayist, born 1959 in Velestovo, near Ohrid. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Skopje. He is president of the Managing Board of the international poetry festival Struga Poetry Evenings.

            Published poetry collections: Engravings (1979); Project (1982); Cold Urge (1985); The Last Manuscripts (1988); By-way (1991); Subjects and Arguments (1994); Anabasis (1994); Forms of Passion (1999); Dark Place (2000); Words and Water (2001); Measurer of Words (2007); Holy Body (2010).

            His poetry is presented in many anthologies and his works are translated into several languages.

            Awards include Miladinov Brothers for best Macedonian poetry book, European Prize for Poetry by Romanian Foundation Orient-Occident, Golden Autumn - Sergei Esenin by Moscow organization of Russian Writers Association etc.



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      • ISSUE XXV August 2017
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      • ISSUE XXVII July 2018
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      • ISSUE XXIX July 2019
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      • Issue XXX February 2020
      • ISSUE XXXI December 2020
    • 2021 ISSUES >
      • ISSUE XXXII August 2021
    • 2022 ISSUES >
      • ISSUE XXXIII June 2022
      • ISSUE XXXIV December 2022
  • Collaborations
    • Macedonian Collaboration
    • Collaboration with Dutch Foundation for Literature
  • Interviews
  • Prose on Poetry and Poets
    • 2010-2013 >
      • Sylvia Plath by Dr. Nidhi Mehta >
        • Chapter-1(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-2(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-3(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-4(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-5(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-6(Sylvia Plath)
      • Prose Poems of Tagore by Dr. Bina Biswas >
        • Chapter-1(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-2(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-3(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-4(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-5(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-6(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-7(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-8(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-9(Rabindranath Tagore)
      • Kazi Nazrul Islam by Dr. Shamenaz Shaikh >
        • Chapter 1(Nazrul Islam)
        • Chapter 2(Nazrul Islam)
        • Chapter 3(Nazrul Islam)
      • Kabir's Poetry by Dr. Anshu Pandey >
        • Chapter 1(Kabir's Poetry)
        • Chapter 2(Kabir's Poetry)
        • Chapter 3(Kabir's Poetry)
      • My mind's not right by Dr. Vicky Gilpin >
        • Chapter- 1 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
        • Chapter-2 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
        • Chapter-3 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
        • Chapter-4 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
      • On Poetry & Poets by Abhay K.
      • Poetry of Kamla Das –A True Voice Of Bourgeoisie Women In India by Dr.Shikha Saxena
      • Identity Issues in the Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel by Dr.Arvind Nawale & Prashant Mothe*
      • Nissim Ezekiel’s Latter-Day Psalms: His Religious and Philosophical Speculations By Dr. Pallavi Srivastava
      • The Moping Owl : the Epitome of Melancholy by Zinia Mitra
      • Gary Soto’s Vision of Chicano Experiences: The Elements of San Joaquin and Human Nature by Paula Hayes
      • Sri Aurobindo: A Poet By Aju Mukhopadhyay
      • Wordsworthian Romanticism in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra: Nature and the Reflective Capabilities of a Poetic Self by Paula Hayes
      • Reflective Journey of T.S. Eliot: From Philosophy to Poetry by Syed Ahmad Raza Abidi
      • North East Indian Poetry: ‘Peace’ in Violence by Ananya .S. Guha
    • 2014-2015 >
      • From The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry Adam Wyeth
      • Alchemy’s Drama: Conflict, Resolution and Poiesis in the Poetic Work of Art by Michelle Bitting
      • Amir Khushrau: The Musical Soul of India by Dr. Shamenaz
      • PUT YOUR HANDS ON ME: POETRY'S EROTIC ART by Elena Karina Byrne
      • Celtic and Urban Landscapes in Irish Poetry by Linda Ibbotson
      • Trickster at the African Crossroads and the Bridge to the Blues in America by Michelle Bitting
    • 2015-2016 >
      • Orogeny/Erogeny: The “nonsense” of language and the poetics of Ed Dorn T Thilleman
      • Erika Burkart: Fragments, Shards, and Visions by Marc Vincenz
      • English Women Poets and Indian politics
    • 2016-2017 >
      • Children’s Poetry in India- A Case Study of Adil Jussawalla and Ananya Guha by Shruti Sareen
      • Thirteen Thoughts on Poetry in the Digital Age by Mandy kAHN
    • 2017-2018 >
      • From Self-Portrait with Dogwood: A Route of Evanescence by Christopher Merrill
      • Impure Poetry by Tony Barnstone
      • On the Poets: Contributors in Context by Donald Gardner
      • Punching above its Weight: Dutch Poetry in English, a Selection, 2013-2017 by Jane Draycott
  • Print Editions