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Stephen Mead

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Thank you so much! Your Journal of Poetry is ecxellent. I am reading all of it. I am very glad I am on the same page with Ayappa Paniker! I shall suggest other people, here, to read your Journal. Thank you again and I hope to be able to send you a new poem form my new book, which should be printed by the end of this year. Yours sincerely
Roberto Piperno -robpiperno@yahoo.it

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Dear Rati,

Thanks for searching out my poems on the Poetry Superhighway! That self-interview lacked energy. I hope dynamic poets, like the ones you feature, can kindle me. I'll step back and write another self-interview. In case you want some other poems by me to consider, I'm attaching a series of short pieces resulting from my encounter with Tang dynasty poetry, and a domestic twilight poem. I'm also attaching a short bio. Sorry for slowness in getting back to you. I'm glad you're in touch with Esmail Abholgasem. I've looked at Kritya again. Jim McCurry's poem "A History of Failure" can be read as a sutra. And that fellow he quotes in the epigrams, Stanley Moss---who is he? Those epigrams add more of a sagelike note to the "sutra." The intoxication of the Atharvaveda songs comes through. My friend Yi Sha collaborated on Chinese versions of lyric love poems by the Sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet. Next time I go to Xian City, I'll show him these Atharvaveda songs. It will be something interesting that we can read together in English. I also liked the interview w/ Marilyn Krysl. If you want another example of a consistently engaged American poet, I can mention Bill Ransom, who teaches at Evergreen College in Washington State. He spent time in hot spots of Latin America, acting as a human shield, observer, and rescue worker. And Roberto Piperno's poem should be taken to heart as an "ars poetica" for our period.
Regards,

Denis Mair

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Respected Madam,
Thanks for sending your excellent e-journal of poetry: Kritya, by email. The content and formet are excellent. kindly keep the good work going. Prof. Uday Narain Singh's contribution is simply superb. I have submitted 3 original poems for favour of publication in your esteemed journal. May I also submit some Telugu poems translated into English by me and B.B.Sarojini please ,for your kind and favourable consideration . Best regards,

T.S.Chandra Mouli.
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Kritya was introduce to me by Dennis Mair, an American poet. It's marvelous, exotic and fantastic. I enjoyed very much reading new poetry. I'm an Iranian writer working on Iranian literature and mythology and published many books. I'm living in Shanghai teaching at Shanghai International Studies University. I'm also an amature poet. I send you some of my poems revised by Dennis Mair. With regards.

 A. Esmailpour  

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Hi Rati,
I have the honor of being a friend of Ms. Hasanzadeh. She told me about Kritya. I checked the website and thought I could provide you with some feedback. I liked the content of the site. I'm in love with Soufi's poems particularly and am very happy to see her poems published around the globe. The design of the site wasn't very user friendly for me. Two specific things that I can think of are: • The text being white on a black background makes it not so easy to read the material. • The narrow columns on the first page breaks each sentence into several lines, which makes it not so easy to read.
Have a brilliant day,
Mazyar
 

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Dear Ms. Rati,
I did read it and like it too, enriched with Tasavvuf, it has a lot to read and it would be even better if the quantity, keeping the same good quality, could be increased. It is a good work and accept my congrats for this. I would be happy to send more in future from my father and others, whenever you start working on the next issue, please let me know and I would forward some. Although I believe, script and translation sometimes lose the jist and fragrance of the original matter but this is still so important to bridge b/w ppl speaking and reading different languages and script. My father does know hindi and devnagari but unfortunately I don't, so I will send you those things in roman again in future.

Regards,


Faisal Azeem

(408) 858-2718
www.shabnamromani.com

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Your efforts to bring poetry to as much as needed is appreciated. Want to view more.

G.GopalakrishnaPillai= parnasala2003@rediffmail.com

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great collection of poems. especially akkamahadevy,yannis ristos...great!
rati, its a great thing. thank you

sajitha.r.shankhar=sajithas@hotmail.com

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read about you and this website from Trikalam-- a magazine from Kochi. I love poetry and love to read them to get an escape from the monotonous work in the office. I work as an Accounts Officer in the Kottayam Division of BSNL. I do feel that poetry and literature will free our mindset from the little things of things of this life. It will create a love for mankind etc. I wish your endeavor all success,

Thank You.

KURUVILLA JOSEPH= kv_jsph@yahoo.co.in

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