Category: Poetry
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After Star Trek: Inner Light | Little Blue Marble – Climate Fiction for a Changing World
Signed the contract for my poem “After Star Trek: Inner Light.” It took three years for the poem to write itself in its current form, and now it’ll appear in the gorgeous Little Blue Marble, edited and published by Katrina Archer from Canada. Like the title episode of Star Trek (which is certainly an all-time…
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Poetry: “A Personal Index of Our Times” (Strange Horizons, January 2022)
My poem “A Personal Index of Our Times” is up here on Strange Horizons (January 2022). “Salik Shah offers an abcedarium of the jinn for our global village in ‘A Personal Index of Our Times.’” — Strange Horizons Many thanks to Bogi Takács (eir bio reads: Lamda + Hugo winner) for a glowing review: Vijayalakshmi…
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The Indian Experience: Three Poems
Three of my poems “At Rajiv Chowk Metro Station,” “Khas Pidgin” and “Foreign Tongue” appear in the latest Sage issue of Coldnoon, an international journal of travel writing & traveling cultures. These poems are part of my debut collection, Khas Pidgin. PDF: https://coldnoon.com/…/12/The-Winter-is-Coming-to-an-End.pdf Text: https://coldnoon.com/…/sage…/the-winter-is-coming-to-an-end/ I think I wrote the poem “Khas Pidgin” in 2009, and “Foreign…
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Instructions for Astronauts
Become a space traveler, star trekker and adventurer for a few minutes! “Instructions for Astronauts” appears in April 2017 issue of Mithila Review, an international science fiction and fantasy magazine. Written by Michael Janairo in nine parts, it’s about our destiny—humanity’s epic journey through time and space. What is this form? Is it art, poetry,…
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Reading and Writing Long Poems
Once I get inside a long poem, said Ron Padgett, I never want to get out. That’s what happened to me when I started reading Anne Carson’s ‘The Glass Essay‘ on her birthday, earlier this week. I didn’t know the poem would be 7877 words long, which turned out to be a good thing. I…