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Summit Meet
"I hear the voice of time in poems", says Adonis. Shuntaro Tanikawa reminds not to perk up the ears to one sound. One should be open "to another sound, another voice" 

Czeslaw Milosz observes: 

"I sit, a sly and angry poet... 
And,weighing a pen in my hand, 
I plot revenge. 
I poise the pen 
and it puts forth twigs and leaves 
it is covered with blossoms 
And the scent of the tree is impudent, 
for there, on the real earth, 
such trees do not grow." 
Tomas Transtromer adds, "There is too much that can neither be written nor kept silent."  Roberto Juarroz quips,"To speak is to live another way,but also to die another way." 
He goes on: 
"Every silence is a magic space 
with a hidden rite, 
the womb of a summoning word, 
and an essential detail 
of antisilence... 
The rite may be 
the solitude of a poem 
the word the sign that 
every poem hides 
and the point of antisilence 
the sound of the hand 
calling from inside the poem. 
Silence is a temple 
that needs no god." 
The colloquy continues— A Summit-Meet

Poetry Habitat
"I send up my rocket to land on...the final planet where the Great Brain of the universe sits waiting for a poem to land in his golden pocket."--Allen Ginsberg 
Poetry "is the monster hiding in a child's room, it is the scar on a beautiful man's face.It is the last blade of grass being picked from the city park."--Brian Patten 
Poems of Allen Ginsberg, Bella Akhmadulina, Brian Patten, Chong Hyon-Jong, Dennis Brutus, Ernesto Cardenal, Ferenc Juhasz, Gabriel Okara, Giovanni Raboni, Gunter Kunert, Helmut Zenker, Henrik Nordbrandt,  Jacques Dupin, John Ashbery, Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Miroslav Holub, Nancy Morejohn, Nicanor Parra, Octavio Paz, Tadeusz Rozewicz,Ted Hughes, W.S.Rendra, Yang Liuhong, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and other poets are here— Habitat and Habitat-II.

The Poet Says 
"The poet tempts you with lies as well as truth.The poet's lies are truer than truth." 
—The Poet's Lies by Rajendra Kishore Panda
 

Poetry Folio
"Torrential showers of silence...What is it that still pants? A breast or sky? What is it that flutters inside?  An apple or a sun? No. A bomb. No. A bubble. No. A sperm. 
Yes.The sperm." 
Ashadh by Bharat Naik. 

"It is difficult to return home now, who will recognise 
us ?..My mother will get scared, it is better not to return 
home now." —Returning Home by Surjit Patar. 

Among the other Indian poets in this publication are — Sochi Rautroy, Subhas Mukhopadhyaya, Jayanta Mahapatra, Nilmani Phookan, Harbhajan Singh and Bibhu Padhi 
—Here And Now 

Creativity in Art
Art in colour, stone, metal, wood, ceramic and other media (including digital art) has no language-barrier, it is poetry— Multicreation

BrowseView
Rob Smith presents a neo-reading on 'Birthday Letters' of Ted Hughes. 
K.P.Shivakrishna talks about revival of 'Chandrabhaga'. Browseview 

Links
Varnamala Indian-English Poetry Anthology
Varnamala Oriya Poetry Anthology


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