From Pratik's Current Issue: "Temples of Stone" by Indian poet HK Kaul (1941-2020)

 

H.K. KAUL

1941-2020

 

Temples of Stone

 

Gods in the valley are alone now.

No watchmen around

No worshippers either.

 

Where have the worshippers gone

Who flocked every morning

Circling gods with charters of demands?

 

They left for safer havens

With family, gold, lost glitter.

Left gods alone in the chambers.

 

In the stones, in the temples

In the temples of stone

Knowing well gods will rise

When stones around will begin to melt

Seeing strewn arms, heads and torsos

Rising from battlefields to life

Taking new forms for the new worshippers.

Founder Director, DELNET-Developing Library Network and Founder Secretary-General and President, The Poetry Society (India), H. K. Kaul was born in Kashmir, India. He edited Journal of the Poetry Society (India) and authored more than a dozen poetry collections including Firdaus in Flames and In the Islands of Grace. 

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Cultivating Voices hosts a reading to celebrate the Fall 2020 issue with current and past contributors.

Join Cultivating Voices host Sandy Yannone as we welcome Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma, editor of Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing, for a reading to celebrate the Fall 2020 issue with current and past contributors. 

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SELECT PRATIK POETS TO READ AT THE EVENT ARE

Charles Bernstein

Tony Barnstone

Chard DeNiord

Grant Hier

Yuyutsu Sharma

Jill Hoffman

Kerrin McCadden,

Bill Wolak

Judith Mok

Gerard Bernie

Suzanne Lummis

Flaminia Cruciani

Patricia Carragon

Seymour Mayne

Sydney Lea

Cleopatra Mathis

Gloria Mindock

Chuck Joy

Jack Grady

Margaret Saine

Howard Pflanzer

Highlights of the Current Issue:

Art, Poetry and Music collaboration;

Dreams of a Sleeping World;

Art of Oscar Oiwa;

Plus an interview with Hollywood Musician Chad Cannon

EIGHT POETS FROM VERMONT:

Chard deNiord  David Huddle Tony Whedon  Major Jackson Cleopatra Mathis  Joan Aleshire  Kerrin McCadden  Karin Gottshall   Sydney Lea

DAVID B. AUSTELL

Marshaling the Milliards

A tribute to Harlem Renaissance Hero, James Weldon Johnson

Four Poets from Nicaragua

Ernesto Cardenal, Rubén Darío,  Salomón de la Selva, Joaquín Pasos

A SHEAF OF OTTAWA POEMS

Shai Ben-Shalom, Seymour Mayne  Nicola Vulpe, Betty Warrington-Kearsley, Erwin Wiens

ELEVEN  ITALIAN POETS

Claudia Russo,  Flaminia Cruciani,   

Rita Stanzione, Zairo Ferrante, 

Paolo Staglianò, Antonello Airò, 

Cinzia Marulli, Gabriella Becherelli,  Vittorio Fioravanti Grasso,          

Antonio Blund, Adriana Scanferla

Featuring

DAVID AXELROD

CHARLES BERNSTEIN

JILL HOFFMAN

BILL WOLAK

MIKE GRAVES 

PATRICIA CARRAGON

Plus New Work by GLORIA MINDOCK 

& HOWARD PFLANZER

Afterlife: Two Poems by H.K. KAUL (1941-2020)

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American poet Jill Hoffman's new poem, "Prose" from Pratik's Current Issue

 

JILL HOFFMAN

Prose

 

To write it is to give it up

like vomiting

which I did one night

arms around the base of the toilet bowl.

 

You know you are going to pay the price.

It’s just a question of how much

and maybe when.

Echoes adhere to everything and make us humble,

 

the dagger upheld against the breast,

remembering

who said what when.

This prose commitment to daily life, to describing

 

what he was like in bed

and moving over and turning

over over and over

till he is gone, and it is you.

 

There is even a little dog

and a bench and a garden,

I am playing a mandolin, he proffers flowers,

the whole Meissen arbor

guarded by chicken wire

and razor-ribboned around,

with a tiny gold

padlock

 

that only a change of

attitude can open,

like a can of worms

that turns to gold.

Founding Editor of Mudfish, American poet, Jill Hoffman has taught in major universities (Bard, Barnard, Brooklyn, Columbia) and published in major magazines, such as The New Yorker and Paris Review. She has led the Mudfish writing workshop in Tribeca since 1990. She is also a painter.

 

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