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Pratik ; XVI No 2, Fall 2020
Art, Poetry and Music collaboration
Dreams of a Sleeping World :Art of Oscar Oiwa
Plus an interview with Hollywood Musician Chad Canon
EIGHT POETS FROM VERMONT
Chard deNiord David Huddle Tony Whedon Major Jackson Cleopatra Mathis Joan Aleshire Kerrin McCadden Karin Gottshall Sydney Lea
DAVID B. AUSTELL :Marshaling the Milliards A tribute to Harlem Renaissance Hero, James Weldon Johnson
Four Poets from Nicaragua : Ernesto Cardenal Rubén Darío Salomón de la Selva Joaquín Pasos
A SHEAF OF OTTAWA POEMS : Shai Ben-Shalom Seymour Mayne Nicola Vulpe Betty Warrington-Kearsley Erwin Wiens
ELEVEN ITALIAN POETS : Claudia Russo Flaminia Cruciani Rita Stanzione Zairo Ferrante Paolo Staglianò Antonello Airò Cinzia Marulli Gabriella Becherelli Vittorio Fioravanti Grasso Antonio Blund Adriana Scanferla
Featuring DAVID AXELROD CHARLES BERNSTEIN JILL HOFFMAN BILL WOLAK, MIKE GRAVES PATRICIA CARRAGON
Pratik : Vol XVI No 1, 2019
Celebrating Irish Muse
EIGHTEEN POETS FROM IRELAND
Martina Evans, Thomas McCarthy, Eavan Boland, Steven O’Brien, Nuala O’Connor, Gerard Beirne, Eleanor Hooker, Tess Gallagher, Jack Grady, Nessa O’Mahony, Anne Casey, Fred Johnston, Mary Noonan, Patrick Cotter, Jean O’Brien, Anne Fitzgerald, Paul Casey, Judith Mok.
“Doorway at Dusk: From Jeddah to New York”
American painter Vivian Tsao’s on her evolution as an Artist
EUROPEAN CULTURAL COMPASS FEATURING TEN POETS
Aurėlia Lassaque – French-Occitan, Lászlo Sárközi – Hungarian-Roma, Edvīns Raups – Latvian, Adrian Oproiu – Romanian, Leta Semadini – German / Rhaeto-Romanic, Pierre Voėlin – Swiss-French, Anahit Hayrapetyan – Armenia, Vincenzo Bagnoli – Italian, Mandy Haggith – Scottish, İlhan Sami Çomak– Turki
ELEVEN LONG ISLAND POETS ON WALT WHITMAN
Celebrating 200th Birth Anniversay of the American Bard
Peter V. Dugan, Barbara Novack, Mindy Kronenberg, Claire Nicolas White, Herb Wahlsteen, Kelly J Powell, Dd. Spungin, Linda Trott Dickman, Barbara Southard, Robert Savino, Ginger Williams
BOOK REVIEWS BY HÉLÈNE CARDONA, JULIE WILLIAMS-KRISHNAN AND ROBERT MUELLER
Plus All Regular Columns
Winter 2019-20 Issue
Contemporary Russian and French Poetry.
Fourteen Russian Poets
Dmitry Grigoriev, Alla Gorbunova, Olga Anikina Andrei Polonsky, Danila Davydov, John William Narins, Anastasia Romanova, Dmitry Legeza, Igor Karaulov. Valerii Zemskikh, Dina Gatina, Maya-Marina Sheremeteva, Irina Evsa and Serge Tashevsky.
An essay “Russian Poetry Today: A Contemporary Sampler” by A. DMITRIJANOV
Eleven French Poets
Michel Bulteau , Gabriel Arnou Laujeac, Maram Al-Masri, Hélène Cardona, Véronique Joyaux, Marie-Claude Deudon, Jean-Claude Tardif, Pierre Rosin, Nicole Barrière, Claire Paulian, Cirène Gayraud and Jacques Jouet.
Special France related poems by Four American poets
Willis Barnstone, David Austell, Robin Metz, and Rebecca Morrison
New Non-fiction: Susan Shapiro & Elizabeth Enslin
Short story by Pankaj Bisht
Artist of the Issue : Lithuanian sculptor and painter, Ruta Jusionytė.
Plus new work by Tim Kahl, Amrendra Khatua, Usha Akella, Shailendra Sakar. Chuck Joy and Raghubir
Book Reviews
Haig Chahinian reviews Susan Shapiro’s The Byline Bible
George Wallace reviews All Vows: New & Selected Poems By David B Axelrod
Edmound Miller reviews of Diane Frank’s Letters from Sacred Mountain Place
Jeff Deck reviews Dan Szczesny’s The White Mountain
Review Essay
Stephanie Laterza on Voices Carry (Shearsman Books, 2017) by Mervyn Taylor, Drugstore Blue (Five Oaks Press, 2017) by Susana H. Case, and Out From Calaboose (Nirala, New Delhi, 2017) by Karen Corinne Herceg
Plus all regular Columns
Pratik Summer/Fall 2018 Double Issue
Contemporary European Poetry
Swedish Poets
CARITA NYSTRÖM AGNETA FALK HIRSCHMAN PER HELGE INGELA STRANDBERG GUNNAR SVENSSON EVA RUNEFELT BENGT BERG
Lithuanian Poets
ANNA HALBERSTADT ANTANAS JONYNAS VYTAUTAS STANKUS KESTUTIS NAVAKAS MARIUS BUROKAS LAURYNAS KATKUS GIEDRĖ KAZLAUSKAITĖ SIMONAS BERNOTAS EGLE MARIA FRANK
Ukrainian Poets
PAVLO HIRNYK BORIS KHERSONSKY DMYTRO KREMIN OLENA ZADOROZHNA LYUBA YAKIMCHUK SVASYL HOLOBORODKO SVETLANA LAVOCHKINA
More from Europe
ABIGAIL ARDELLE ZAMMIT AGNES MARTON ANGELA READMAN IAN HUMPHREYS RHIANNON HOOSON MARIA TAYLOR SHEHZAR DOJA GRAHAM BURCHELL VERÓNICA ARANDA KINGA FABÓ ANDREW TAYLORCHRISTOPHER SOUTHGATE
Plus
AMIR OR MARIA FARAZDEL (PALITACHI) ANA LUISA MARTÍNEZ KARY CERD FRANKY DE VARONA MARISA RUSSO.
FOURTEEN NEW INDIAN POETS
Aishwarya Iyer Arjun Rajendran Arun Sagar Guru Tshering Ladakhi Linda Ashok Maaz Bin Bilal Manjiri Indurkara Nandini Dhar Ranjani Murali Rohan Chhetri Sophia Naz Souradeep Roya Tashi Chophel Uttaran Das Gupta
More from India : ANNA SUJATHA MATHAI MEDHA SINGH ROBIN SINGH NGANGOM MANDIRA GHOSH AZAD SHARMA SHARON IRANI DEVANSHU MISHRA
Plus new work by LAURA COOK VIJAY ANAND GURUNG
AFTERLIFE : Pankaj Singh
IN MEMORIUM : JOHN CLARKE By Jack Tar
Book Reviews
ROCHELLE ALMEIDA :This Is Not Happening To You Short Stories by Tim Tomlinson
BARRETT WARNER: Ornaments: Poems by David Daniel
STEPHANIE EMILY DICKINSON : The Gates of Pearl Poems by Jill Hoffman
RAVI SHANKAR: Nine Dragon Island: Poems by Eleanor Goodman
Comment/Response :
The Lady on the Cover –Pratik Spring 2018 Issue: Prollas Sindhuliya & Joni Kabana
David Austell’s Cover Story– Poetry and History: Kiran Devinder
NEWS UPDATE : Bhuwan Thapaliya
Spring 2018 Issue
History & Poetry
The Making of The Tin Man By
David Austell
With All That Is Nepal
A Photo Tribute by American Photographer
Joni Kabana
Eight Chinese Poets
Jidi Majia Chen Si’An Duo Duo Xi Chuan
Zheng Xiaoqiong Yuan Yongping Li Yawei Shen Wei
Featuring
Sitakant Mahapatra, Tony Barnstone &
Jami Proctor Xu
Nine Young Nepali Poets :
Pramod Snehi Shyam Rimal Sahadev Poudel Padma Gautam ‘Punya Gautam Bishwas Keshav Silwal Bhuwan Thapaliya, Ramesh Shrestha & Arun Budhathoki
The Lifeblood of Consciousness, of Love and Loss: Stephen Massimilla on Ruth Danon‘s New Book, Limitless Tiny Boat
Plus all Regular Features
