Letter To Poetry
Keya is a high school student who had an assignment in her poetry class: write a letter to poetry. But never mind that this was a school assignment, because her letter is something I...
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The Reverse Tree
The Reverse Tree is a thin volume of six personal essays by Bengali poet and translator Kiriti Sengupta. There are poems scattered throughout the book, maybe ten or fifteen of them, which serve to...
Conaway’s Poetic Justice
Until You Make The Shore by Cameron Conaway is another poetry book in the growing and much-welcomed trend of long poetic narratives receiving publication, and it does not disappoint. The framework of the book...
Poetry FAIL
Warning. This is a rant. I am getting really tired of physical bookstores — the kind with a front door and shelves and an actual counter you walk up to in order to buy...
June 2014 Newsletter
My newsletter, which was supposed to be sent out in April, has finally been released! Read it here. Lots of stuff happening: anthologies, kindle versions of new books, and a move back to the...
Principles Of Belonging and Mera Bharat now available on Kindle!
My two latest books Principles Of Belonging and Mera Bharat are now available as e-books on the Kindle platform through Amazon! For those of you who have thrown out the old and welcomed the...
Review of Principles of Belonging
Thanks to Fox Chase Review — who has been a supporter of my poetry — and Dennis Daly on this bit of excitement this past weekend! Read the review here.
Poetry Display in Library
I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I had written a blurb about poetry for my high school library. Here is the display. Note that all these books were donated by me because all...
Sort of Review on PoB
I recently came into contact with an old friend of mine. She was the Best Woman at my wedding — I didn’t have a Best Man. But it has been years since we’ve spoken...
Blurb on poetry
The head librarian at the residential school where I live is making a poetry poster and asked me to write a blurb about the importance of poetry. This is what I wrote: THE IMPORTANCE OF POETRY Poetry...