Chamber of Sodium by Rajendra Ojha (Nayan)
modernist satire from Nepal
modernist satire from Nepal
Book review of Ocean Vuong’s “Night Sky with Exit Wounds”
poem from Nepal
poems by Nabakumar Podder
Indian poet Mansi Hazarika
Theresa C. Gaynord discusses her creative process
All of the pieces are emotional snapshots, some just a moment long and others stretching on like a season. Kind of philosophical, but actually quite literal. Somewhere where grief and joy don’t have to be sugar coated but can just be messy and even complicated, yet weirdly beautiful.
In the ancient myth of Pallas Athena, the goddess is born from Zeus through parthenogenesis. The goddess emerges from his forehead as full-grown. She becomes the goddess of war, one of indomitable spirit. An 1898 painting by Gustav Klimt presents her in golden armor to suggest the majesty of her divinity and power. Golden Armor […]Read Post ›
Neighbors I know they think but I don’t know what. They know I drink but they don’t know why (neither do I). A rat lurks under their basement sink. My Babe She don’t care about the weather. She don’t care about the news. And when I watch the ballgame, she don’t care if my team […]Read Post ›
I feast inappropriatelyand postpone working daysenslaved by constantDigital Surveillanceday by day. More working lies growlike lilacs out of the dead.This life has been a textand its ashesare being grown.Something literaryarises like massive waves and the sunken shipsomehow finds its way.I find each morning musicalthe night feels as if no sleepneeds to be unembraced.Is it a happiness risingor a cursed agewhere […]Read Post ›