Peace

October 4, 2016October 4, 2016 debasis3 Comments

Recently, to celebrate the International Day of Peace Praxis Magazine Online has published, in partnership with 100,000 Poets for Change, a collaborative poem comprised of more than 250 segments contributed by #poetsforpeace from around the world.

I am really honored and proud to have been a part of this collaborative anthology Peace Poem, 2016. I would like to thank Anita Lubesh for the heads-up. And my special thanks to the project curators M. Zane McClellan, Neha Dasgupta-Parmar, and Marie Lukasik Wallace for including my poem Nice, Bastille Day 2016 (pp.154-155). This amazing collaboration will be archived in the Stanford University Archive of the 100,000 Poets for Change collection!

Click here to download & read : Peace Poem, 2016

You can also read my poem on I am not a silent poet where it first appeared.

Thanks everyone!

Best of the Net Nomination 2016

September 12, 2016September 12, 2016 debasis8 Comments

Many thanks to Editor Katie Manning & everyone at Whale Road Review for choosing to nominate my work “Point of no return” for inclusion in this year’s Best of the Net Anthology ! I am deeply honored & feel so grateful!

You can read the piece here: Point of no return

Thanks everyone!

Anthology · Published poems

that watching is harder than to asphyxiate

September 3, 2016 debasis5 Comments

My new poem “That Watching is Harder than to Asphyxiate” appears in an exciting online anthology called Writers Against Prejudice (September 3, 2016). Many thanks to editor Marie Lightman for saying yes to this poem.

Click here to read the poem : That Watching is Harder than to Asphyxiate

Thanks everyone!

Published poems

Four poems at Erbacce Magazine

August 22, 2016August 22, 2016 debasis11 Comments

I am grateful & honored that the editors at Erbacce Press (Liverpool, UK) liked four of my poems from the Erbacce Poetry Contest 2016 enough to include in their latest issue (46). These poems, Daisy, On a hook, Song & the bottom of the root, & Telescope & night ornaments, had been longlisted for the contest. I was not aware they would be published in their print magazine. So when I received the magazine featuring my work alongside that of some fine poets from different corners of the world, I was really surprised & delighted. Thanks again Alan Corkish & Andrew Taylor.

Click here to read the poems : Daisy , On a Hook, Song & the bottom of the root, & Telescope & night ornaments

Note: Song & the bottom of the root was first published in The Curly Mind on January 23, 2016 & Telescope & night ornaments was first published in The New Verse News on March 26, 2016. And I have added here a more recent version of the piece Daisy.

Thank you!

Published poems

Sea-bound stroll & more

July 25, 2016 debasis7 Comments

So delighted three poems of mine, Sea-bound stroll, Between roots & wings & Wrappings of misnomer, found a home in a fine print & online magazine published from India (July 23, 2016). Many thanks to Krishna Prasad, editor in chief of The Wagon Magazine for including my poems in their latest issue (Vol 1, Issue 4, July 2016).

Click here to read the poems :

Sea-bound stroll, Between roots & wings, Warppings of misnomer

Thanks everyone!

Published poems

Nice, Bastille Day 2016

July 19, 2016 debasis4 Comments

Many thanks to Reuben Woolley, editor at I am not a silent poet for running a poem of mine called Nice, Bastille Day 2016 (July 19, 2016).

Read the poem here : Nice, Bastille Day 2016

Thanks everyone!

Published poems

Mother, nothing ain’t over yet

July 19, 2016July 21, 2016 debasisLeave a comment

Mother, nothing ain’t over yet, a poem of mine dedicated to the mothers of the disappeared in Kashmir is now up today at I am not a silent poet (July 19, 2016). My special thanks to Reuben Woolley.

Click here to read the poem : Mother, nothing ain’t over yet

Thanks everyone!

Published poems

“menos tu vientre”

July 15, 2016July 20, 2016 debasis2 Comments

Delighted to have two new poems, “menos tu vientre” & What is there to write in the latest issue of The Curly Mind (July 15, 2016). Many thanks as always to Reuben Woolley for giving my poems a wonderful home. Be sure to give a read to issue 4 of this blogzine. Lot of work I admire.

Below are the links for the poems :

“menos tu vientre”

What is there to write?

(Suggested reading : Miguel Hernández)

Thank you!

Published poems

Orlando : Guns & Roses

June 13, 2016 debasisLeave a comment

Many thanks to Reuben Woolley for publishing my poem Orlando : Guns & Roses in his blogzine I am not a silent poet (June 13, 2016).

Click here to read the poem : Orlando : Guns & Roses

Thank you!

Anthology · Published poems

Voice of Monarch Butterflies

June 12, 2016October 31, 2016 debasisLeave a comment

I am thrilled to have been featured in an engaging anthology called Voice of Monarch Butterflies which brings together the work of ten different displaced poets who are originally from different countries, from Ganges to Nile (Iran, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, India & Bangladesh). My immense gratitude to the editor Soodabeh Saeidnia for including thirteen poems of mine in this unique collection. If you are inclined to hear the voice of migratory butterflies, here is the link to get a copy : Voice of Monarch Butterflies

Below is the list of my featured poems:

Song and the bottom of the root (p.35)

Delirium (p.36)

Point of no return (p.36)

If nothingness was the beating heart of a frog (p.36)

The pretty secret of the butterfly (p.37)

Why do I care? (p.38)

Linear (p.39)

Lahore, Sunday, March 27, 2016 (p.39)

Doors in the eyes of a refugee child (p.40)

I’m a death baby (p.40)

Hashtag : Chibok, April 14, 2014 (p.41)

Telescope and night ornaments (p.42)

Untitled (ekphrastic poem) (p.97)

Thank you!