Finally, the last book I read in January wasInk Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experienceis probably the most important book I will read all year. This is a collection of poems by authors on their experience as immigrants and refugees. This book was incredible and SO ...
The novels and poems of renowned Polish writers seduce readers with their evocative language and intricate character development. They offer a glimpse into the innermost desires and passions of their protagonists, beautifully capturing the complexity of human sexuality. With each page, the reader is tr...
The general structure was a dynamic between connection and separateness. The researcher's heuristic journey was included. Complementary to the final written depiction of the phenomenon, the researcher crafted two poems and a painting.Besides disclosing a lived human experience, the aim of the ...
by contrast, was propelled by the need to take a long and hard look at where the consequences of modernity had taken humanity, and at the debasement of culture that was seen in the inevitability
published GEOMETRIES OF BELONGING: Stories and Poems from the Birdverse with Fairwood Press, I realized that maybe I had found the press who would be interested. I asked Patrick Swenson, the publisher, if he would consider publishing another “universe” themed collection—and he was enthusiastic...
Almost two years have passed since Covid upended all our lives. However, it’s spanned three (calendar) years – 2020, 2021, and 2022. Here are three poems I’ve written about what may be the world’s first true pandemic. Incidentally, each one was written in a different calendar year...
1513 – W. DunbarPoems, Scottish, ‘Be his feirris he wald hauefukkit’. The Fucking Abbot (1528) isn’t even the earliest citation that’s widely talked about, predated by ten years by Dunbar, which the link discounts as not being in English, despite appearing in theOxford English Dic...
When R.B. Lemberg published GEOMETRIES OF BELONGING: Stories and Poems from the Birdverse with Fairwood Press, I realized that maybe I had found the press who would be interested. I asked Patrick Swenson, the publisher, if he would consider publishing another “universe” themed collection—and...
When R.B. Lemberg published GEOMETRIES OF BELONGING: Stories and Poems from the Birdverse with Fairwood Press, I realized that maybe I had found the press who would be interested. I asked Patrick Swenson, the publisher, if he would consider publishing another “universe” themed collection—and...
Aditya Desai lives in Baltimore, currently teaching writing and revising a couple novels that he keeps threatening to finish someday. He received his MFA in Fiction from the University of Maryland, College Park. His stories, essays, and poems have appeared in B O D Y, The Rumpus, The Milli...