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Vivekanand Jha Interviews the Poet Jayanta Mahapatra
Jayanta Mahapatra needs little introduction. There are many features which make him distinct from his contemporaries like: the most prolific poet in the historyof India/English Poetry, belongs to poor and middle class family, a scholar from science background, first poet to receive Sahitya Akademi Award in the Indian English [...]

‘Now is the winter of our discotheque’———————-
CANZONET
[for P.H.]
In my shoe a pebble
on the way to Mecca.
The camel spits through the eye of the hurricane.
We’ll walk the whole way
whether by bicycle, dromedary, or pogo stick.
The sandcastles closed for the winter,
all the sand sold for a tidy profit.
It won’t be an easy journey.
When we arrive
there’ll be nothing [...]

Keep your eye on the prize and your finger on the trigger.Chad wore his pants around his buttocks and slung his wallet from a chain. He enjoyed the way the chain slammed against his thigh as he walked – it echoed his steps like thunderous applause, which he so desired, and also [...]