Poetry

Nishi Pulugurtha is an academic and writer based in Kolkata.

"...I think I have one..."

"...The items we carry are not left at the side of the road..."

"...they remain stranded on an island engirdled by sharks the size of tankers..."

Short but universal...

"...hide behind a scarecrow grin among a cornfield of smiles..."

"...and isn't my backyard, no matter how much time we spend mowing the lawn and weeding..."

"...His wispy Spanish accent alights like a butterfly on the living room furniture—..."

"...we traded jokes, paraded skills..."

"...lines that have changed their direction, like dissident travelers at crossroads..."

"...the font of translucent light..."

"The sun in the east Is red, crimson..."

"It has been seven years since you departed..."

"...wanders the halls of midnight..."

"...boxes and boxes of poems I’ve written ..."

"...perhaps this king had left his heart for glory..."

"...When lawbreakers turn into lawmakers..."

"...I rinse the doldrums out of my hair..."

"...case open in front of him already filling with passersby’s pocket change..."

w v sutra was born in Africa and raised in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, borne hither and thither on the surging tides of cold war and soft power. He has been at various times a rock musician, a public health professional, and an educator.

Debarati Sen works in Presidency University Kolkata as a Junior Assistant. Her debut poetry book called 'Blurred Musings' was published in January 2022 and was launched by Literoma at the Newtown Book Fair.

"...no one believed war was coming..."

"...like a river flowing the course...

"...I should have been dreaming of a life worth dreaming about..."

"...And it seems to me unreal that I’m an island..."

"...birds fall lifeless from the trees..."

"...But the roots that testify to time..."

"...They fight with every fibre of their being to remain in power..."

Umar Hussaina Garba is a young Nigerian Poet and a storyteller, known for her beauty use of imagery in her poems and her undying exposure of culture.

A subtitler and translator in Hollywood, April Mae M. Berza's poems and short stories have appeared in numerous publications in America, France, Canada, Belgium, Romania, India, Japan, Great Britain, and the Philippines. She currently resides in Taguig, Philippines.