Vol: 1 Issue 1
November 2014
We look for poetry . We look at poetry.
We read and publish poetry. We want you to keep on writing poetry,
Because, writing poetry is good for the heart and brain.
Poetry releases alpha waves.
It makes you feel good having written one.
Then, get ahead, submit them to us.
Central Time- Ranjit Hoskote
Magic Ritual- Bibhu Padhi
When God is A Traveller- Arundhathi Subramaniam
Tell Me Neruda- Gopikrishnan Kottoor
A Hundred Measures of Time - Nammalvar Trs. Archana Venkatesh
Kedarnath Singh, Hindi poet, wins 49th Jnanapith Award.
Arundhati Subramaniam, has been nominated for the TS Eliot Prize 2014.
Probal Mazumdar, Infosys, Odisha has won
the First prize for his poem ' Grandmother'
in The All India Poetry Competitions, 2014.
POETRY SCENE
A Hundred Measures of Time
Nammalvar, Penguin (India)
'Little worms that live in a wound
do what they do.
what do they know of the world?
I learned these songs from the cunning
Tirunal
who uses me to sing of himself
Its' like people making meaning
from the chirp of a lizard.
I knew a cat with a face
like a star
i waited for it to die
so my heart would hurt
a little less.
Now my nights are darker,
my life easier,
and I've returned to the tribe
from which I came
our granaries lusdh
with words and lovelessness
' I knew A Cat'
In the heady seconds in which a breeze would lift your cuff enough to expose an ankle, I wanted my dust mingled with yours forever- Federal Scene
