Featured Poets

Adnan Shafi

Young Adnan Shafi, (23) was born and brought up in a middle class educated Bhat family, which belongs to Chandrigam in Tral area of Kashmir valley. He is a poet, writer, columnist , translator, short story writer and reviewer. His poetry book "TEARS FALL IN MY HEART' depicts sorrows and vicissitudes of life. There are various hues in his poems ranging from love to loneliness and despair. Besides, his poetry is replete with simplicity of thought and language. Some of the poems are autobiographical in nature which relate to his own life’s vows.

Anant Vijay

: Being a graduate of political science, my words speak for the simple yet complex matters of a heart, set in the regular insanities of our minds. I have been featured in several inter-collegiate slams such as IIT-K, DTU, Dyal Singh, DCAC and have performed as a featured artist in The Piano Man, Roohaniyat by MSIT and Social CP. Besides, I have also set my foot in the creative writing circuit with an internationally recognized Certificate of Recognition from The New York Times.

Anshu Pal

Anshu Pal is a published Indian Author who is passionate about writing poems. She started writing at a very early age of thirteen about Nature and Life. Her favorite genre is love and relationship. She has a strong belief that the world can be conquered only with Love. She considers Love as her Religion and wants to Spread Love everywhere. She writes in English and Hindi Languages.

Anuj Pareek

A professional writer. Made his name in writing poems, stories and as a advertising writer. Also his contribution in writing many episodes, dramas, dozens of print and many adds of digital and outdoor. Now he is a creative writer in India's top most Media group known as Rajasthan Patrika. Mr Anuj made his own world of rhymes and stanza beyond the worlds of crowd and deteriorating. This is his craze, zeal, fade to life. Or in other words we called it DHUN ZINDAGI KI.

Arijit Roy

Arijit Roy is an upcoming name in the Delhi poetry circuit. He is the founder of Sri venkateswara college's creative writing society- Petrichor. He has served as the youth ambassador of Delhi poetry festival season five. His book of poems In the hour of sky has been published by Writers Workshop India . He has been invited to recite at various institutions namely Mayo college girls Ajmer, IIT Delhi, Jashn literature carnival, Maulana Azad medical college, Jamia University, Maharaja agrasen college among few. But ask him, about himself . He replies" I am just another lost soul like everyone else"

Aruna Arjun Ram

Aruna Arjun Ram is an educator and teaches in a Junior College in Bangalore. Her love for English Literature made her quit her corporate job to pursue what she loves. In her leisurely time, she writes quotes and micropoems for her page on Instagram with the handle: @words.worth.musings . It is her endeavor to live mindfully by following a zero-waste lifestyle. She is also an avid reader and an artist.

Ayushman Jamwal

Ayushman Jamwal is a poet by heart and a journalist by profession, presently working as a senior news editor at CNN-News18. Ayushman has won many hearts with his first award-winning publication "Chameleon Lights"- a collection of 20 short poems. "Chameleon Lights", which featured among the top 10 best-selling books of English poetry on Amazon, conveys a multitude of emotions, tracking the journey of a restless spirit as it tries to find its identity. As Ayushman puts it-"The journey beautifully unfurls with well-lit paths and dark corners, where one encounters myriad hues of destiny, love, music, art, pain, suffering, beauty, spirituality, and even a sprinkle of insanity." Ayushman recited some of his poems during various events organized by the Trust under Kavita Sang Yaar Beli events. Grandson of renowned Dogri litterateur and Sahitya Akademi Awardee, Kunwar Viyogi, Ayushman is also the mentor of "Save the Language" campaign, an initiative started by Kunwar Viyogi Memorial Trust to preserve and popularise the Dogri language.

Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar

Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar is a trilingual poet (Maithili, Hindi and English), short story writer, critic and reviewer. He is regularly published in various national and international magazines, both printed and online. His poetry springs straight from heart and mind as unification of sensibility. He uses catchy lines, expressions and images. In his poetry, social issues, romance and love are tackled with equal passion. Resonant with profound spirituality and intricate mysticism his poems are stunning and enlightening, buoyant sometimes and intense at other times and always have a deep meaning beautiful enough to touch hearts of avid readers. One of his poems on Nelson Mandela is included in the academic syllabus prescribed for the school students of Philippines.

Devyani Srivastava

Devyani is a 23-year-old, who loves Delhi, Ghalib and coffee alike. She writes what she feels and on her good and extremely bad days feels what she writes too. She runs a blog [www.devyanisrivastava96.blogspot.com] and an insta micro poetry page [www.instagram.com/green_hugs]. Her favourite writers are Rumi and Rabindranath Tagore.

Ekta Sharma

This is Ekta Sharma, a confident, expressive, ambivert yet mediocre when it comes to skills. I am neither excellent nor blunt at anything. And, coming to writing, writing is firstly my love,secondly a therapy to me. Writing helps to keep me sane for I can pen down my feelings effortlessly on paper anytime I feel heavy with mt emotions.

Manoj Krishna Sanyal

The writer Manoj Krishna Sanyal, aged 72 years, is an engineer by profession and worked in”” “Navaratna” PSU in senior position. He has four published books. He writes poems in English and Bengali languages .He is jovial and spiritual. He lives at Kolkata.

Meena Sood

An epitome of simplicity and grace, Mrs. Meena Sood belongs to Palampur, Himachal Pradesh. A graduate in sciences and a post-graduate diploma holder of computers, she continued to work after marriage in the field of teaching. Married to an Army Officer, she took every opportunity that came her way. Being a visharad in Indian classical music, she also composed a song for an Army Division which was widely appreciated. A prolific writer, she also published two books on Hindi poetry, called 'Kriti meri abhivyakti' and 'Aakhar dil ke'. Her work has been published in numerous newspapers, magazines, national and international anthologies, etcetera, which have won her a position in the field of poetry and she's here to stay! Besides poetry, she also writes ghazals and short stories. She has been a regular guest speaker at Akashvani and Doordarshan on varied social subjects besides poetry recitation. She has traveled across India and abroad and has understood the world in her own unique way. She strives to seek knowledge and through her work, wants to promote positivity in the lives of everyone. Her motto in life is to live and let live and she quite clearly lives the quote!

Pankhuri Aggarwal

Pankhuri Aggarwal is currently perusing Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Jammu. She completed her M.Phil in English Literature and topped her Master’s in English Literature. A resident of Jammu, Pankhuri, in her free time loves to read, write, paint, travel and swim. She started her career as a freelance writer and has umpteen publications in local, national and international journals. To promote her paintings, the talented author recently launched her Facebook page titled: Pankhoj.

Pothuraju Bharath Kumar

I am Pothuraju Bharath Kumar working as Assistant Manager at Syndicate Bank, I am an ambivert and love to be with nature and words flowing from all direction. I like writing and reading and enjoy my own company, I believe in peace and.. My quote for life It's all about words.. Let them flow.. Souls dwell..!!

Poulomi Bose

Born and brought up in UP, Poulomi Bose moved to Delhi for her graduate education and pursued an Honours degree in English from IP College, DU, MA in English Literature from JNU and Mphil in English Literature from Hyderabad Central University. She has taught in various colleges in Delhi University for 4 years as assistant professor of English Literature. Her areas of interest include Victorian Literature and Literary Theory as well as Communicative English, and she has taught language proficiency courses in both JNU and DU. A constant academic achiever, Ms. Bose has several publications to her credit in various national journals and books, and she has also presented papers in prestigious institutions like DU, University of Hyderabad, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jadavpur and Osmania University. She has also published a novella, a short story and several poems. She started writing poems while in college, initially to pour out emotions and experiences into words, which later grew into a way to resist and speak up against sociology-political issues that she feels strongly about.

Pratishtha Khattar

Pratishtha Khattar is a writer/poet based in New Delhi, India. She is a romance junkie, tea-lover, full-time dreamer and passionate about the power that words yield. She has been featured across various magazines like Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, and Femina. She publishes her poetry and prose under the pen name of Paradox and Metaphors on Instagram and Wordpress.

Praveen Lohani

I am an avid reader on the internet and fascinated by the amount of Social content created these days. I took to writing for Fun. I have a special charm for narrating stories to Kids by making imaginary animal characters. I am a big Football Fan and would like to be clicked with the Football stars like Messi and Ronaldo. I earn my bread by running a Web development Company based in NCR.

Rohit Bhanja Chowdhury

Being a student of English Literature, I came across emotions that divide a person into two characters- the one the world sees & the one that the mirror sees. This dichotomy first prompted me to write. I find more justice to my expression through poems. A religious reader and follower of Tagore, currently a blogger and a poet, taking new endeavors.

Sandeep Kumar Mishra

Sandeep Kumar Mishra is an outsider artist, poet and lecturer in English Literature. He has edited a collection of poems by various poets - Pearls (2002) and written a professional guide book -How to be (2016) and a collection of poems and art - Feel My Heart (2016). Recently his work has published in New England Review, Society of Classical Poets, Permafrost Journal, Human Touch Journal, Blue Mountain Review, International Times, Literary Yard, Mud Season Review, Verbal art, Stone coast Review, Asian Signature, Chiron Review, Convergence, Harbinger Asylum, Helix, High Plains Register, Literary Orphans, Marathon Literary Review, Phenomenal Literature, Quail Bell, Really System, Red Fez, The Brasilia Review, The Criterion, Third Wednesday, Ygdrasil, ZOUCH Magazine & Miscellany etc.

Shashi Pathak

Shashi Pathak is the founder of hitchAR, an Augmented Reality startup. He is also a Mentor of Change at AIM, NITI Aayog. In his free time he likes to write about social issues. His work has been published in many literary magazines and journals. "18 and counting" is his first collection of poetry which was published in 2015.

Vihang A. Naik

Vihang A. Naik collections of poems includes City Times and Other Poems (1993), Making A Poem (2004) and Poetry Manifesto ( New & Selected Poems) (2010). His Gujarati collection of poems titled Jeevangeet (Gujarati poems) (2001) is dedicated to the cause of victims of Gujarat Earthquake 26th January, 2001. He also translates poetry written in Gujarati language into English including his own Gujarati Language poems into English. His poems have appeared in some of the most noted literary journals and anthologies. His poetry has been translated into Japanese, Spanish, Italian, German and Portuguese languages. He lives and works in Gujarat, India. His literary info can be found at https://vihang.org

Yatharth Gupta

Yatharth Gupta, born in Moradabad, a bronze city in Uttar Pradesh. As everyone has some problems, I too went through a period of problems. As everyone learned, time also taught me how to write. It took time to understand, and now it has been years after writing. Now I like to write as well as take pictures. I want to combine handwriting and photographs. Want to change something, circumstances.