Volume 11 – August 2020

Launching soon!

Featuring

Fiction – Edited by Paresh Tiwari

Shikhandin – Buffalo Train
Rochelle Potkar – Symbols of a life
Jahnavi Barua – Birdsong
Susan Beth Furst – Between the Lines
Manoj Narayanan – Chrysanthemum Diaries
Zach Murphy – In Rotation
Arko Datta & Ankita Banerjee – Homecoming

Poetry – Guest Edited by Smeetha Bhowmik

Spring-Summer of Tumult – Guest Editorial by Smeetha Bhowmik
Sestina
Gail Tyson – Borderland
Jaclyn Youhana – And, Oh, We Knew We Were Endless
Samuel Nzebor – PREACHER OF LOVE
Ambika Talwar – Svarna: Envoy to the New World
Smeetha Bhoumik – In Step With Cirrus
Ghazal
Jennifer Hambrick – Fire
Sufia Khatoon – Call out my name
Ammar Aziz
Tushar Rishi – Quarantine
Shruti Sareen – In the Woods
Sahana Mukherjee
Sonnet
Jagari Mukherjee – QUARANTINE VEILS: A SONNET IN TERZA RIMA
Jennifer Hambrick – caught in the wings
Zainab Ummer Farook – SULAIMANI SONNET
Radha Chakravarty – The Key
Trishita Das – harbour
Limericks
Gautam Nadkarni
Tercets
Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia – A New World
Lina Krishnan – Chantal’s Fifty
Baisali Chatterjee Dutt – Monsoon 2020
Tanka & Other Five Line Short Poems
Pamela Babusci – forgiveness
Sudeshna Rana
Haiku, Three Line Short Poems & Related Forms
Arvinder Kaur
Don Baird
Don Baird – Passing Star
Kashiana Singh – meditations
Baisali Chatterjee Dutt
Nishi Pulugurtha
Samrudhi Dash – Strands of Hope
Prose Poems
Neera Kashyap – The Leap
Zach Murphy – Foxes and Coyotes
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca – Banyan Tree Dreams
Dr. Subhadeep Paul – Confinement: A Poem Un-versed
Free Verse
Bruce McRae – Bone Orchard
Tuhin Bhowal – Vignette
Sarabjeet Garcha – Queen, Spell
Bhupesh Karmakar – The Ashram Life, I Love Parrot
Young Voices
Shilpa Bharti
Yashasvi Gaur – Kitchen Doors
Ridhi Bhutani – Lyrics of my minute long silence, an ode to rebellion of my words
Praniti Gulyani – Gibbous Moon
Sargam Bodh – Untitled
A New Form
Hetvi Jethwani – Microwave
Translation (Sindhi to English)
Gayatri Chawla 104 – Do you know lovers never die? They do not return to the abode of the body

Haibun

Robin Anna Smith – without emptiness, Perfusion
Bryan Rickert – What Remains, Stoking the Fire
Alexis Rotella – High on a Hill
Terri L. French – The Big Book, Bayou Coffee Shop
Sophia Naz – Blow Whole
Don Baird – In Silence
Diana Webb – Cut and Stick
Shalini Pattabiraman – While they are gone
Ananya Kharidhi – Vegetative State
Riya Roy – How Does That Make You Feel?
Praniti Gulyani – Ever-Changing
Gautam Nadkarni – The Hole Truth
Matthew Caretti – Rearranged
Kinshuk Gupta – Silence
Mary Jo Balistreri – Darkening River

Features

Amrita ke Naam – Translations from the Punjabi by Sarabjeet Garcha
Where I Live
Prayer
A Patch of Sunlight
Virgin
Poornima Laxmeshwar – In Conversation with Sivakami Velliangiri on ‘How we Measured Time’
Srividya Speaks Poetry – We All Have Something to Say

Books

Paresh Tiwari – Frazil (1980 – 2017) by Menka Shivdasani
G. Akila – The Amazing Glass House by Susan Beth Furst

Artist in Spotlight

Sufia Khatoon