November 2018
November 2018
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Poems by Heath Brougher
Heath Brougher is the co-poetry editor of Into the Void Magazine, winner of the 2017 and 2018 Saboteur Award for Best Magazine. His work has been translated into ten languages as well as featured in journals such as Taj Mahal Review, Chiron Review, Setu Bilingual, Harbinger Asylum, The Wagon Magazine, BlazeVOX, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is To Burn in Torturous Algorithms (Weasel Press, 2018).
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Poems by Dustin Pickering
Dustin Pickering is founder of Transcendent Zero Press and founding editor of Harbinger Asylum. He is author of the poetry collections The Daunting Ephemeral, The Future of Poetry of NOW: bones picking and death’s howl, Salt and Sorrow, Knows No End, Frenetic/No Contest, The Alderman: spurious conversations with Jim Morrison, and O’Riordan: spurious conversations with Dolores. He is the author of the book on aesthetics, A Matter of Degrees. His short story collection, The Madman and Fu, was recently released along with his novella, Be Not Afraid of What You May Find. He is a former contributor to Huffington Post. He has essays in Cafe Dissensus, The Statesman, and Journal of Liberty and International Affairs. He is also a musician, visual artist, and reviewer. He has been placed as a finalist in Adelaide Literary Journal’s first short story contest and is a Pushcart nominee for 2019.
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Poems by David Chorlton
David Chorlton is a transplanted European, who has lived in Phoenix since 1978. His poems have appeared in many publications online and in print, and often reflect his affection for the natural world, as well as occasional bewilderment at aspects of human behavior. The Bitter Oleander Press has published Shatter the Bell in my Ear, his translations of poems by Austrian poet Christine Lavant. A new book, Reading T. S. Eliot to a Bird, is out from Hoot ‘n Waddle, based in Phoenix.
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8 Spoken Word Poets Blurring the Thick Divide Between the Stage and the Page
Author of whorelight (Hawakal, Aug 2017), Linda Ashok is the 2017 Charles Wallace India Fellow in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Chichester, UK. Her poems and reviews have appeared in several publications, online and in print, including The Common, Crab Orchard Review, The Pointed Circle by Portland Community College, Contemporary Verses 2, The McNeese Review, Friends Journal, Axolotl, Expound, among others. Linda is the Founder/President of RædLeaf Foundation for Poetry & Allied Arts and sponsors the annual RL Poetry Award (since 2013). More at lindaashok.com
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Indian English Poetry of the Twenty-First Century: Trends of the New Millennium
The winner of the Women Empowered Gifted Poet Award (2020), Jagari Mukherjee is the Founder and Chief Executive Editor of the literary journal, EKL Review, and the Editor-in-Chief of Narrow Road. She has authored six solo collections of poetry—two chapbooks and four full-length volumes. Her most recent publication is Woman and the Moon (2024) by Hawakal Publishers. She has also edited an anthology titled Hubbies for Hawakal (2025).
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Sanjeev Sethi in a stirring interview with Nikita Parik
Nikita Parik holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and a Master’s degree in Linguistics, both from the University of Calcutta. She is currently pursuing a second Master’s degree, in English Literature, and intends to do doctoral research by combining aspects of the two disciplines together. Parik writes poetry.
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Masculinity and “Mute” Females in Bengali Children’s Fiction
Anuparna Mukherjee holds a PhD degree in literature from the Australian National University. She completed her graduation from Presidency College, Kolkata. She convened a conference under the auspice of the Humanities Research Centre at ANU on “strangers and strangeness in urban literature,” and guest-edited a special issue on “City, Space and Literature” with Arunima Bhattacharya in 2017.
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Why Naipaul Is Not Great: A True (Non-kantian) Appraisal of a Literary Career Now Ended
S. Shankar’s most recent novel is Ghost in the Tamarind. He is currently working on a full length play on censorship entitled The Library of No Books and welcomes inquiries.
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Vale of Tears
Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife (his in-house editor) and two plump cats (his in-house critics). He writes full time, producing short stories, essays, poems, and novels. Terry is a retired urban planner and an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist—who once played with a symphony orchestra backing up jazz legend George Shearing.
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Ticket to Romance
John Ross Archer is a retired Colonel from the US Army where he served for 23 years. He holds a master’s degree in psychology and is an active Rotarian. He is the past owner of a strategic planning firm and was a technical college vice president. He and his wife reside in Thomasville, Georgia, and share five children, six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.