By: James Aitchison I hear a murderer singing, and varied croaks I hear:Those of mad goblins, each one singing his as it should be cracked and crazed,The carpenter singing as he measures his coffin wood,The madman singing in the depths…
By: Carl Papa Palmer They meet every morning, Chuck and Mac, 8am for coffee,twenty five cents a cup though everybody else pays a dollar. Dolly knows they’ll be here two hours. Each has their usual:grits, two eggs over easy, wheat…
By: Tamoghna Mukherjee Epiphany God is God because it reciprocates ourverbose prayers with silent oblivion.How closely we search for meaning inreminiscence, how assiduous our effortsare in eliciting metaphors from memory—but, you see, here, no action becomesmusic anymore, no scribbling incantation….
By: Ananya S Guha The hill town is nowA ‘ city ‘, screeching, honkingCars, upgrade it to a cityBut the hills remain indifferentWinter or summer, they areWitnesses to primordial timesThey are witnesses to thunderousRain claps, they are witnesses toDeserted roads,…
By Thomas Sanfilip To draw inspiration from a poet like Guillame Apollinaire—one of the foremost French poets of the early 20th century and who died over a hundred years ago—and to translate his work for a modern audience today is…
By: Mary Bone Wild Sage While walking to schoolI saw wild sagein an open pasture.A sweet aroma was floating aboutSage has an earthy flavor in food.It’s aroma therapy at its best. Pirates Cove A winding creekin a bamboo forest.There was…
By: Ethan Goffma Son: Father, our black cat is invisible at night and so an excellent hunter. Yet he has a white spot that can give away his position as he lies hiding, waiting to pounce. Is there some biological…
By: Goutam Roy Deep withina remote Cumbrian cave,where silence has enduredfor millennia,lay a child—not yet four—whom archaeologistshave named Ossick Lass.She was laid to restwith quiet intention,in the early ageof Mesolithic people—one of the first tracesof human remembrance.Time has not preserved…
By: Pradeep Trikha Gopal Lahiri Selected PoemsSelected by Sanjeev SethiCLASSIX (An imprint of Hawakal)Aug 2025, ISBN: 978-81-988424-0-4, ₹650, 128 pages Contemporary Indian English poetry increasingly functions as a dynamic contact zone where personal memory, historical consciousness, ecological awareness, and metaphysical…
By: James Aitchison The printed book is dead. Long live the book. Despite dire predictions since the arrival of e-books, industry data tells a different story. By 2029, the physical book market is projected to reach $70.75 billion, markedly higher…