Sunil P. Narayan USA Īshwar and his lover saved Bhūmī-Devī from persecution, thus the many arts of mankind blossomed like the mallikā Everywhere the delightful scent of Svargáloka encircled the minds of unimaginative men and women Thrusting them into a fantasy of a guarded jungle with celestial flowers and rivers endlessly flowing towards the sunset!…
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A Lonely Morning
Pavel Barakhvostov Minsk, Belarus A lonely morning sitting with me on a sill watches clouds roam from the drowsing east at dawn they float past bringing in their rags if not oblivion then still a blizzard meek God in a whisper of your landscapes you are talking to us unaware of time and distance immutable…
Sidewalks Some Times
L Douglas St Ours Maryland, USA Sometimes I like urban sidewalks and the smell of petrol in the air pandering politicians on the run for fuck off cabbies under the gun circling cuddled lovers huddled for fun past panting painters posing poets rolling marbles off the alleys of the wise plastic people in our database…
Reading “Old Heart”
–For Stan Plumly David Parsons Montgomery, Texas I have been diving into your heart for weeks now like some lone bear returning to a kill not always directly— meandering through your Meandering through trees that are rivers—branches, alive with Magpies and Blue Jays, many, many Jays, and Spirit Birds taking me to more water, streaming…
Lightning Caulks the Sky
Clouds accordion and flash a wet promise, sweat and grime layered on skin, bones collecting thunder. City sidewalks over-ripe with chalked stats, the night thermals steam inside marrow as you press an ice cube to your throat and watch the midnight parade sitting outside café neon, dank cloth on skin waiting for the glimmer robes…
Sacred Yearning
Aparna Raj Mukhedkar Houston, Texas An embryonic incongruity. I grow from something to nothing. A dot, a flicker, now active cells churning, a macrobiotic mass bound, in concert with the human body. Pedagogic malfeasance committed with certain knowledge, then incinerated to a plume of dust and ashes fed to starving horses, their majestic manes glowing…
An Interview with Sharan Kumar Limbale
Siva Nagaiah Bolleddu Ph. D Scholar, Dept. of English Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur; A.P. Sharankumar Limbale is one among the most renowned Dalit writers in India. He was born on 01 June 1956.. Most of his writings are in Marati and translated into English and other languages. Limbale got his BA degree in English in…
Post Modernism and English Literature: What is Post Modernism?
Dr. Pawar N.B. Dean, Faculty of Arts & Fine Arts Solapur University, Solapur (M.S.) It is possible to identify a singular feature- the hallmark of post-modernism, which would suggest a unity in diversity. Post structuralism and post-modernism are partners in the same paradigm. Together they exercise a joint critique of modernist ideas of order and…
Exploring the Intricacies of Marriage Through Shobha De’s Spouse
The Hall of Warped Mirrors: The Role of the Auditor in Browning’s “The Laboratory”
Dr. Vicky Gilpin Millikin University The Victorian Era witnessed the emergence of a new form of poetry, the dramatic monologue, which poets used to achieve goals they could not reach through the soliloquy-style strivings of lyric poetry, nor gain through multiple speakers. By exposing the sentiments of an often-deranged speaker to a silent listener, the…