Kritya Issue

Subject:	New issue of kritya is on line
Date:	Sat, 6 Jul 2013 12:20:58 +0530
From:	Rati Saxena

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Most of the times we follow someone else's footsteps. Sometimes it is seen, and sometimes it is not. Sometimes we accept it with an open heart and sometimes we deny. In between these two phases, we follow our conscious mind.

It always seems to guide us involuntarily, but as we want to show ourselves modern, we never accept it . We all are probably passing through such simultaneous thoughts. We have no time to learn the lessons of the past and no real idea of the future. We keep following our own path without constant awareness of all that is around us.

Debate, however, is essential in order to create democracy in the field of knowledge. When there is no healthy debate, then people from any literary branch follow their own way to specify themselves. Sometimes they become so harsh and lose sight of the real aim of literature. Nowadays debate is a blunt weapon.

To reject a theory without any cause may gradually take us far from literature and far from the path of improvement. Modernization and trendiness is not defined merely by separation from the past. It can be helpful if we try to learn from the past.

On the one hand, with passing of time it is professed that poetry has come to its end and on the other hand, in recent times, the increased popularity of poetry is feared. Poetry has been praised as the height of intellectual achievement. Its popularity, however, is said to be the standardization of trivial importance. If advanced literature symbolizes the growth of people, why should we worry? What is this? Is this the lack of mental development, broadness or lack of the feeling of equality?

Literature is not the property of one or few kinds of or classes people. If it is working with society, we must proud of it. In these crucial times, we pray for the real growth of our society and the role of poetry as well.

The Artist of the issue is Prabhat Pandey

Amen ....!!

Rati Saxena

In this issue:

Poetry our time by-
Koketso Marishane
Yannis Livadas
Otoniel Guevara
Pushpanjana Karmakar
Patrick J. Wilson
Akhil Katyal
Rob Plath
S D Sasi Kiran

http://www.kritya.in/0810/En/poetry_at_our_time.html

In Name of poetry:
Yan,Li
http://www.kritya.in/0810/En/name_of_poetry.html

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Editors choice

Wang jiaxin
http://www.kritya.in/0810/En/editors_choice.html

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Our Masters:

Nima Yushij
by Iraj Bashiri
http://www.kritya.in/0810/En/our_masters.html

Hindi issue

My Voice
http://www.kritya.in/0810/hn/my_voice.html

February 2017

New issue of kritya is on line

www.kritya.in

What does poetry mean for the creative seers : Mother Earth and the dark night and planting the tree in the library?

Poetry seeps into the pages transforming images and metaphors ; thus creating new worlds of meaning, sensibilities and being. Poetry also becomes the soul and the mirror image of the poet. The poets featured in this edition become the chroniclers of bringing forth exquisite imagery, of latching and knotting disparate images and more importantly, verses become vehicles of investigating the self: entrenched in the personal that dovetails into the political.

Guest editor

Babitha Justin

Editor’s choice- Poems by Yolanda Castaño (Galicia – Spain)

When shut eyes can see

the cycle becomes a sleight of hand

(The poetry book opens too much

and up pops a deck of cards).

It’s not cocky to flick a switch,

or afflicted to write in the dark.

Don’t let go your hold on the world

or lose touch with the word footing,

take a saw to its legs

you might find you reach even higher. and more..

In Name of poetry-

the washing machine

revolves with pleasure,

wearing away the owner’s clothes--

wearing away the brightness,

wearing down the fibers,

rubbing out the stains.

All this wear

keeps us clean

day after day.

Blessed be the woolen sweater

on gentle cycle

that wants to match her red skirt.

Yu Jian

Our Masters-Sringarapadyavali

The girl to the friend :

I'm anguished. My eyes shed tears

Which bum as they stream down my sunken cheeks And

my lord whom the gods have named

To dry my tears is not present

To perform the task; he left on his travels

Condemning me to anguished tears.

Poetry in our time-

Bijoy Krishna Handique

Judy Katz-Levine

Kelley Jean White

Hongri Yuan,

Luz María López

Juby Peacock

Małgorzata Skałbania

Ingrid Fichtner

*Artist of the Issue-Vijendra S Vij

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