The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has been observing March 21 as World Poetry Day since 1999, and this seems like the perfect occasion to recommend a book of poetry that has meant much to me. Instead of writing about how educators could use it as a resource with the students in … More Book Recommendation: Homie
Sreelekha Chatterjee is a poet from New Delhi, India. Her poems have recently appeared in various magazines and journals like Raw Lit, The Mini Magazine of Assam, Verse-Virtual, The Wise Owl, Ghudsavar Literary Magazine, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, and Ukiyo Literary Magazine, and in the anthologies—The Harvest & the Reaping, Winter Glimmerings, and Whose Spirits … More PeaceVerse 2024: A Quest for a Tranquil World, by Sreelekha Chatterjee
Carol D’Souza is a writer and translator based in Bangalore. A collation of her work can be found at linktr.ee/cblaizd.
Maureen Tai is a Hong Kong-based Malaysian writer who has published creative works in literary magazines such as Cha, Mekong Review, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Kyoto Journal and Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, as well as in local and international anthologies. Primarily writing for children and teens, she has published short stories for children with Oxford University Press and Marshall Cavendish … More PeaceVerse 2024: Peace Offerings for a Ceasefire, by Maureen Tai
Shikha S. Lamba is a Jewelry Designer and Gemologist (G.I.A) Co-Editor /Founder Coffee and Conversations Magazine.
Thank you to all those who submitted poems for PeaceVerse 2024. Poets Farah Did, Srilata K. and Shobhana Kumar formed our jury this year. We received a small number of entries of which they selected five for publication on The Peace Blog. The poems will appear as individual posts after this. The two jury favourites … More World Poetry Day 2024: PeaceVerse
Prajnya invites you to submit your written verse or spoken word videos on the theme, “Peace,” as part of our celebration of World Poetry Day on March 21, 2024: PeaceVerse2024. Open to poets and peace-lovers of all ages, who write or perform in English, a jury will curate a selection of the submissions for publication on The Peace … More Announcing PeaceVerse 2024
The Tilted City, written by Masoud Malekyari and illustrated by Susan Batori, is a cute hardbound children’s picture book about a zebra who lands up in a city where everything is tilted because the king who rules this place has ordered everything to be this way. He has innumerable questions popping in his head but learns soon enough that … More Book Recommendation: The Tilted City
The most difficult peace-building work arguably is to have that mine-laden conversation with someone you love who sees a particular issue quite differently. … More HAVING THE CONVERSATIONS THAT CONNECT US
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