Literary Yard

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Fiction

By Russ Bickerstaff Dave’s face is a mask. I always get here and I always meet with him here. In this office. And I guess I always wonder what the hell he’s thinking. No idea. We’re sitting there in a…

Poetry

By: Kazi Nazrul Islam Translated by K Ahmed Alam O soul, there comes the joyous Eid after Ramadan fasting You sacrifice yourself; follow Divine calling. For the Almighty are all your gold, silver and palaces; Pay zakat to awaken the…

Essay

By: Richard D. Hartwell “Clothes make the man.” “You are judged by your appearance.” “Your appearance reveals the real you.” These were some of the admonitions with which I grew up. They were leveled at me almost daily: by my mother,…

Literary criticism

By Jack Kamm  “The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.”  ~Germaine Greer             Like most of us, Hemingway couldn’t expunge his childhood, whose damage turned his art, in later years, into a refuge from…

Books ReviewsNews

‘A Different Kind of Lovely’ is a new novel recently released. The novel claims to keep readers engaged till the end with its interesting line of story and characters. Penned by Petra March, the novel is a story of a…

interviewNews

By: Carol Smallwood Rosemary McKinley’s interest in history is evident: she was a history and writing teacher before she retired. She has been published in several magazines and in included in anthologies. Her books include: 101 Glimpses of the North Fork…

Books Reviews

Interweavings: Creative Nonfiction is a mosaic. There is a gentle ebb and flow of threads of with children, cancer, marriage, friends, losses. And yet, you catch yourself, while reading and after you finish, thinking about your own life. Not comparing,…

Poetry

By: Mendes Biondo love is made for explorers for those braves that want to know the hidden treasures of a lonely island virgin and full of exotic animals love is made for explorers without a completed map in the pocket and…

Books ReviewsPoetry

By: Mendes Biondo we will live together in a wide tree house and every day we will have sex and every day we will dance bare as now we are I’ll smoke my cigars and you will drink a cocktail talking…

Global PoliticsNews

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi appreciated CRISP’s skill development training being imparted to the youths to make them employable at SATI Vidisha. “I am sure that CRISP’s employment linked training programmes will enable the unskilled youth to attain the necessary skill…