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Snubnose’s Humble Contributions to US National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry month in USA. We don’t have anything equivalent in India, but when I saw The Picky Girl’s post on blackout poetry month, it reminded me that I needed to post about the snubnose’s efforts at poetry. In her school, they encourage different forms of creative writing. Some of the more verbal/linguistically…

Some Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

I know it might sound silly to include someone else’s poetry in your blog, but this is something I have done off and on throughout my blog. For some reason, if I come across a lovely poem, I just feel that I need to capture it and post it here, before I forget about it…

The Poet

This is the year of thrillers, it seems. Last year, I read lots of young adult and fantasy, but this is the year of thrillers, and here is one more that I am reviewing for you guys. I spent last night wide awake compulsively turning the last 100 odd pages of The Poet by Michael…

Ah! Kabul!

As promised in my previous post, I am adding this poem “Kabul”, by the 17th-century Persian poet Saib-e-Tabrizi. This is one translation of the poem that has inspired the title of “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini. A second translation can be found here Ah! How beautiful is Kabul encircled by her arid mountainsAnd…

A Poem this Time – An Oldie but Goldie

I am not really too big on poetry, haven’t really delved into it for a number of years now. However, there are a few poems that I read as a child that have always stayed in my memory for a long time. Probably, the time spent memorizing these poems for school recitation did the trick,…