Poetry

"...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.

"...Did I forget to tell you the story..."

"...euphoria unprecedented and otherworldly blanketed him..."

Ankit Raj Ojha is an assistant professor and former software engineer from Chapra, Bihar, India. He teaches English at Government College Gharaunda, Karnal and is a PhD candidate at IIT Roorkee.

"...Embracing collective Awareness..."

"...A heroine who champions free speech..."

"...scholars scouring vellum’s inked decay..."

Donna Pucciani, a Chicago-based writer, has published poetry worldwide in Shi Chao Poetry, Poetry Salzburg, Li Poetry, ParisLitUp, Acumen, Journal of Italian translation, and other journals. Her seventh and most recent book of poetry is EDGES.

"...the wallet slipped, worn-leather shine, is soon binned skip, of no account..."

"...you swallowed shadows that you mistook for water..."

"...The mountains will not know our names..."

"...I wanted plaits..."

"...a tightly packed attic, of no consequence..."

"...Souls vow to stay united in life and beyond it..."

"...a match tossed into the ditch..."