Poetry at the Ghats /My publications
The ghats of Varanasi have been a mystical cauldron for both western and Indian writers. Allen Ginsberg lived for a year near the ghats.
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Mar 13
- 1 min
Poem of the Week
Egg by Linda Pastan is an epitome of figurative language and symbolism
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Mar 9
- 2 min
Excerpts from the book in process
As the six years of exhausted second world war converted the Britishers into a sucked-out sail, the lantern of the British Empire in India
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Mar 5
- 3 min
Editor’s Ink/ Louise Gluck:The Family Poems
I recently read Poems 1962-2020, by Louise Gluck. Book is written over vast themes. I liked mother poems more. Louise Gluck is an...
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Feb 24
- 3 min
Review: What’s Left by Tate Lewis Carroll
By: Dr Pragya Suman I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn’t be a kind of shut-box and mirror...
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Feb 19
- 2 min
Poem of the Week
I used to speak in poetry. I would read poems, and I would memorize them. People would say, well, what do you think,
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arcprosepoetry
- Feb 15
- 2 min
Allen Ginsberg and India:India turned his attention away from cosmic obsessions.
Allen Ginberg visited India in 1962 with his boyfriend, Peter Orlovsky, and found here “living transmission of spiritual and visionary...
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Feb 13
- 1 min
Sounds
By Dr. Pragya Suman My father’s old murphy radio has turned up in many sounds call it rendezvous with hallucinations! At first talk...
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Feb 10
- 1 min
Literary Labors
Two types of literary laborers exist, one are owls who liked to write at night and another is Lark, who worked in the morning. W H Auden...
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Feb 6
- 1 min
Poem / Legal Coupan
Premises of government rural health center, in the night I saw beneath the eucalyptus tree a faded frail figure was scratching the dried...
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Feb 4
- 1 min
Khushwant Singh The Nature Watcher
I like the book Delhi through the seasons, authored by Khushwant Singh. Late Khushwant Singh’s columns were the most widely read...
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arcprosepoetry
- Feb 2
- 4 min
Charles Simic: “You must work to captivate the reader.”
By: Dr. Pragya Suman #Obituary Great surrealist poet Charles Simic ( b.1938 ) is no more. He died on 9 February 2023, and literary lovers...
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Jan 27
- 2 min
Richard Shelton: Poet of Desert and Prisoners
#poemoftheweek American poet Richard Shelton died recently on 29 November 2022. A poet of the desert, Shelton spent most of his life in...
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Jan 23
- 2 min
Review: Endurable Infinity by Tony Kitt
And if you want to know who will sing us into the season of no season, then Go and take a plunge in Endurable Infinity.
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Poem of the Week
Editor’s Note:— Our #poemoftheweek, The Lunatic is taken from Charles Simic collection “New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012.” Simic passed...
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Jan 8
- 1 min
Editor’s Note/ Dr. Pragya Suman
this week #poemoftheweek is Snowmen by Indian poet Agha Shahid Ali.
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arcprosepoetry
- Jan 3
- 4 min
GenderFux by Jem Henderson, Jonathan Kinsman and JP Seabright (Nine Pens, 2022): Reviewed by Pragya
The interesting fact about this book is that it is written in a collaborative manner by three authors, totalling twenty-seven poems, nine...
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arcprosepoetry
- Dec 30, 2022
- 5 min
narrative expressive prose poetry explained by Guest Author Dr Anwer ghani
The Narratolyric writing In Literature, there are poetry, prose and in the middle, prose poetry according to the characters of the...
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Dec 27, 2022
- 1 min
Inside the Box
Inside the box, Arc Prose Poetry Anthology, Arc Archive
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Dr.Pragya Suman
- Dec 25, 2022
- 2 min
Poem of the Week
This week #poemoftheweek, Arc Magazine is little tree by E. E. Cummings ( 1894–1962). Cummings was a radical experimentalist.
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