August Issue: Poetry Section

  1. Letter from the Other Side of Silence — Stephanie L. Harper
  2. Because The Deacon Couldn’t Sleep — Dina Friedman
  3. One Day At A Time– Kavita Ratna
  4. YOU ARE– Mahvash Mohtadullah
  5. Gypsy Woman– George Bakola
  6. For Angie– Rachel Ikins
  7. Rise And Fall– Lynn White
  8. Canary’s Plea– Agaigbe Uhembansha
  9. The Lost Pages– Sabreen Ahmed
  10. VOICES: Three Haikus by Daiypayan Nair
  11. Lipstick– Kalpana Singh Chitnis
  12. She Rides The Bus– Marianne Tefft
  13. There Is A Desire– Trijita Mukherjee
  14. My Inner Voice– Shailja Sharma

VOICES: Three Haikus by Daiypayan Nair

1.

falling asleep

to a stray dog’s howl

winter night

2.

chainsaw

all these birdsongs

of dissent

3.

woodpecker

the city still has

a heartbeat

From Silchar, Assam, India, Daipayan Nair is a haikuist. He writes micropoetry, mostly haiku and tanka poems. His works have been featured on various international platforms and weekly columns like Haiku Dialogue of The Haiku Foundation, Haiku in Action of Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, and FreshOutMag. He has also been published in the Frogpond Journal, the prune juice journal, Under the Basho Journal, Failed Haiku Journal, Cold Moon Journal, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Triya Mag, Kingfisher Journal, Poetry Pea Journal, Time Haiku Journal, Failed haiku — a journal of English Senryu, the Akitsu Quarterly, The Wales Haiku Journal among others. His haiku, senryu and tanka have appeared in the prestigious monthly of haikuKATHA from Triveni Haikai India. His recent collection of haiku and senryu titled “tilt of the winnowing fan” was published in 2022 by Hawakal. 

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