A poetry anthology memorializing the 75th anniversary of India’s independence questions the very idea of freedom.
Contemplating Toussaint Louverture’s unfulfilled promise alongside his immense accomplishments.
“Every detail is credible, anchored in the mundane reality of city-dwellers in urban metropolises in contemporary India. [Bitan] Chakraborty is not a fantasist or fabulist; reality is an unvarying constant…
Poets reframing, repurposing, revising, and revisioning fairy tales are producing some of the most inventive and dynamic poetry today.
Watching horror movies is a kind of mastery. Metaphors become literal, and real horror is supernatural.
Put simply: Humor Saves. I am a fan of humor as a survival mechanism, an ice-breaker, a rhetorical device, and vice.
Those are the languages that will consume you—all of you—as you do everything to make them yours.
Poets like Sheffield have admonished us not to speak on behalf of the earth…