Festival of Dashain Dashain comes again in Canada from the back alley of busy routine on a Monday watches my two hands multiplied ten a battle of usual weekdays to my daughters, Dashain is a story I tell them in the car, until we reach the school every year, the same story endsContinue reading “Festival of Dashain. A poem by Saraswoti Lamichhane”
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Solsitice Song. A poem by Josephine LoRe
Solstice Song bury me in ashes bury me in bone bury me in mountainland a thousand miles from home bury me the depth of my height the width of my wonderment and want toss yellowed roses onto freshdug mound let each poet stand and speak one single syllable unutterable truth for IContinue reading “Solsitice Song. A poem by Josephine LoRe”
What I (roundly) made. A prose poem by Dawn Promislow
What I (roundly) made This is a mandarin cake, I made it. It’s orange as you see, the brightest, deepest orange, and it’s made with four whole mandarins (or two whole oranges, or four clementines), one-and-a-half cups of ground almonds, two tablespoons of orange blossom water (which comes from Lebanon), and a couple of otherContinue reading “What I (roundly) made. A prose poem by Dawn Promislow”
Literary News and Writing Advice with Sue Burge
This month’s literary news is very exciting – there’s a new poetry retreat experience available to black poets of African descent. It’s called Obsidian Foundation and its founder is Nick Makoha. Nick is frantically busy fine-tuning the Obsidian Foundation experience ready to receive its first batch of students so I was delighted that we wereContinue reading “Literary News and Writing Advice with Sue Burge”
The Story of a Long Distance Marriage by Siddhesh Inamdar. A review by Geraldine Sinyuy
Review by Geraldine Sinyuy As I walked in the book section of a mall on Hosur Road, Bangalore, India on January 12, 2019, searching for interesting books to take back home to Cameroon, my curious eyes fell on Siddhesh Inamdar’s novel: A Story of a Long Distance marriage. My eager hands immediately reached out forContinue reading “The Story of a Long Distance Marriage by Siddhesh Inamdar. A review by Geraldine Sinyuy”
Book Reviews by Gordon Phinn
In a recent New Yorker I discovered, much to my amusement, the unvarnished truth about the book-summarizing service Blinkist, whose users care not to lumber through such tomes as Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, Michelle Obama’s Becoming or Ghislaine Maxwell’s 500-page deposition for her upcoming trial. Fans recounted the huge benefits of gulping down textsContinue reading “Book Reviews by Gordon Phinn”
New Books from Mbizo Chirasha, James Coburn and David Swanson
Introducing two new books by Time of the Poet Republic founder, Mbizo Chirasha, together with James Coburn, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee David Swanson and WORLDBEYONDWAR.ORG https://www.amazon.com/Second-Earth-Peace-Mbizo-Chirasha/dp/1734783737 The poets in this book are from many corners of the globe, a lot of them from places with wars. What does it feel like to be “collateral damage”?Continue reading “New Books from Mbizo Chirasha, James Coburn and David Swanson”
Books for Gifting!
Charlee LeBeau & The Gambler’s Promise by C.V. Gauthier (Friesen Press) Review by Darcie Friesen Hossack A music teacher once said, “Begin well and end well, or nothing you do in the middle will matter very much.” Although it’s a lesson from grade school, it’s one that still applies, and C.V. Gauthier knows how toContinue reading “Books for Gifting!”
A Conversation with Ram Dass on Finding Hope in a Dark World. by Chris Corbett
A Conversation with Ram Dass on Finding Hope in a Dark World I was first introduced to the book Be Here Now in 1972 by the big sister of my high school sweetheart. I had already been reading books like Autobiography of a Yogi, Christopher Isherwood’s book on Indian philosophy, and anything else I couldContinue reading “A Conversation with Ram Dass on Finding Hope in a Dark World. by Chris Corbett”
The Fifth Night. Memoir by Rona Altrows
photo by Lucy Altrows The Fifth Night My mother taught me that at the moments of our greatest joy we must still remember that people suffer. That’s one reason a traditional Jewish wedding ceremony ends with the shattering of a glass. But a person may create a new ritual to represent the convergence ofContinue reading “The Fifth Night. Memoir by Rona Altrows”
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