Poetry
BOOK REVIEW: POETRY / Abdus Selim’s poetry compilation of the ‘60s is a time machine
Abdus Selim’s translation and compilation is a time machine for all of us living in the new age, where poems have become much neutered.
EVENT / Young writers and poets awarded by IFIC Bank and ‘Kali O Kalam’
The prestigious Kali O Kalam Torun Kabi O Lekhak Puroshkar 2022 was conferred on January 28 at an award ceremony at Bengal Shilpalay in Dhanmondi, Dhaka.
POETRY / Placing Places
Someday, I will write about those places, the cities, monuments, and faces.
POETRY / Love won’t you love me
Break me into numbers and spirals, and blood and flesh make me all that I don't wish to be.
Defining Haiku poetry with poet Quamrul Hassan
Haiku is a poem in three lines that captures the image of a single moment in the reader’s mind.
POETRY / Are you okay/do you want to talk about it
You’re sitting on the couch/ And you’re tapping your feet at 135 miles per hour/ You’re waiting for something to happen
POETRY / On a Thursday on Kazi Nazrul Avenue
On a Thursday, I went back home, and I took a walk./ On the sidewalk, I saw a splash of maroon on a grey block.
Wondrous Woes
The only thing that disregards - Is that you won’t be there to
POETRY / Maa
Delicate like butterfly wings, And yet as strong as boulders Her mind is a divine place, Eternal peace on her shoulders.
Abdus Selim’s poetry compilation of the ‘60s is a time machine
Abdus Selim’s translation and compilation is a time machine for all of us living in the new age, where poems have become much neutered.
Young writers and poets awarded by IFIC Bank and ‘Kali O Kalam’
The prestigious Kali O Kalam Torun Kabi O Lekhak Puroshkar 2022 was conferred on January 28 at an award ceremony at Bengal Shilpalay in Dhanmondi, Dhaka.
Love won’t you love me
Break me into numbers and spirals, and blood and flesh make me all that I don't wish to be.
Placing Places
Someday, I will write about those places, the cities, monuments, and faces.
Defining Haiku poetry with poet Quamrul Hassan
Haiku is a poem in three lines that captures the image of a single moment in the reader’s mind.
On a Thursday on Kazi Nazrul Avenue
On a Thursday, I went back home, and I took a walk./ On the sidewalk, I saw a splash of maroon on a grey block.
Are you okay/do you want to talk about it
You’re sitting on the couch/ And you’re tapping your feet at 135 miles per hour/ You’re waiting for something to happen
Wondrous Woes
The only thing that disregards - Is that you won’t be there to
Favourite season
Showers and storms give way To a surge of sunlight A fragrance of hope floats in On morning breeze
Maa
Delicate like butterfly wings, And yet as strong as boulders Her mind is a divine place, Eternal peace on her shoulders.