Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Graffiti Kolkata Broadside # 05 # March 2010


Cheers....it's back ....the new Issue of GRAFFITI KOLKATA BROADSIDE.
Edited and designed by Sharmy Pandey.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Virgogray Press Online: The Stark Electric Space (Graffiti Kolkata)

Virgogray Press Online: The Stark Electric Space (Graffiti Kolkata)
virgograypress.blogspot.com
The Stark Electric Space: An International Anthology of Indie Writers (Graffiti Kolkata, 2010). Virgogray Press is proud to distribute Graffiti Kolkata's first international anthhology, The stark Electric Space! ...

Myebook - CRISSCROSSES

Myebook - CRISSCROSSES

Sunday, February 21, 2010

CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally the fast relief from blocked nose of the sniffer dogs the books are released from NY customs.. that is what the tracking shows but yet to be delivered !!!! Cheers !!!!Thanks for raising your voice in protest which acted almost like Xylometazoline Hydrochloride Nasal Solution!!!!! :))

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

An Open Letter By Jim Wittenberg

2/15/2010

The Stark Electric Space, an international anthology of indie writers, was recently collected, published and printed by Subhankar Das of Kolkata, India.

It features work by Malay Roychoudhury, Aleathia Drehmar, Parnab Mukherjee, Bob Rosenthal, Sharmy Pandey, Samir Roychoudhury, Shankarnath Chakraborty, Yannis Livadas, Boel Schenlaer, Sreedhar Mukhopadhyay, Paula Dawn, Arunabh Banerjee, Joseph Goosey, Ateendriya Pathak, Erik Vatne, Yasmeen Najmi, Pradip Choudhury, Sara Moss, Aloke Biswas, Jeff Callico, Federica Nightingle, Michael Aaron Casares, Subhankar Das, Heather Fowler, Subhash Ghosh, Tim Hall, Jim Wittenberg, Maria Grazia Galata, Henry Avignon, Elli Griva, Swadesh Misra and Selim Morshed.

It can be purchased by contacting Subhankar Das.

A more serious issue is that copies of the anthology have been confiscated coming into the United States. My two copies arrived the other day in the mail, but the package did look as if it had been opened by someone along the way. As a contributer to the anthology I can’t see anything in its pages that would make this necessary. It includes poetry, stories, pictures and art. Is it because it’s coming from southern Asia? The last I heard the United States was not at war with India. Has something happened in the news that has slipped by me?

What should be done about this? What can we expect to happen next if US Customs agents are confiscating literature at the airport? Is this no longer a free society?

Does anyone has any suggestions how this should be dealt with? Or is it better for us to bury our heads in the dirt? Email me at: offbeatjim@sbcglobal.net

Monday, February 15, 2010

10.02.15.searching

night
my dark-eyed lover

jealous & demanding

I have abandoned my former love
the daylight
for you

& I wander the black
streets
searching

but you have kissed others

and they search everywhere
for you
too

night
our dark-eyed lover

can anyone ever be certain
of your affection?
can anyone
be
sure?

-- offbeatjim
2/15/2010