Rain Through the Keyhole: Violence, Tenderness, and the Grammar of Becoming in “Night Sky with Exit Wounds” by Wani Nazir
Book review of Ocean Vuong’s “Night Sky with Exit Wounds”
poetry
Freedom from Rush Hour by Sushant Thapa
poem from Nepal
Four Poems by Nabakumar Podder
poems by Nabakumar Podder
Barren Land by Manashi Hazarika
Indian poet Mansi Hazarika
Interview with Theresa C. Gaynord, horror fiction writer
Theresa C. Gaynord discusses her creative process
Poetry Like a Forgotten Handkerchief: Reading Sushant Thapa’s The Walking Rebel by Wani Nazir
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.
Armenida Qyqja’s GOLDEN ARMOR soon to be released!!!
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 ›
Two poems by Alec Solomita
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 ›
Pushing Away by Sushant Thapa
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 ›
I hold my breath by Armenida Qyqja
Keep on the lookout for Golden Armor by Armenida Qyqja to be released by Transcendent Zero Press this year On the border of the night that keeps pushing and pushing, Burns this charred dusk, The night knows no satiety, leaves him no room to breathe And I’m the only one that feels his pain… Moment […]Read Post ›
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