[Kiriti Sengupta’s Selected Poems published by Transcendent Zero Press, Houston (Texas)] By Mitali Chakravarty “What if you weren’t a poet?” (“Intrinsic”) Well, he wasn’t. A poet. I am referring to Kiriti Sengupta, who began as a dentist and developed a…
By: NB One This title may trigger your curiosity a bit. It’s either you are married, or a single mom. But how can you be both? This world is full of married single moms. No matter the ethnicity,…
By: Carl Papa Palmer Blue Tooth I ask how she’s doing. As if contemplating her answershe holds up a finger and begins speaking loudly,but not quite looking at me. She keeps turning away, gesturing to no one as I attemptto…
By: April Mae M. Berza In the heat-drenched corners of the Philippine archipelago—where roads turn to rivers during monsoon, where schools are often hours away by foot, and where children dream in dialects rarely printed in textbooks—education does not begin…