Anasuya Basu — Excerpt: It is hard to come back to reality after finishing Girl in White Cotton. It lingers on, absolutely not with a good aftertaste. You are shaken, unnerved, if a little frightened.
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Deepthi Arun Kumar — Excerpt: We admit, / doctors are gross, / inventive but disgusting. / We’d have it no other way.
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Lena Hadley — Excerpt: But you’ve overtaken / My criminal wishes / Now I adorn all my threats / With love hearts and kisses
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Chitra Kalyani — Excerpt: A series of poems trace the body—breasts and spine, eye and tooth—reconciling it with its nature: physical, biological, mortal.
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Michael Smith — Excerpt: Being in the suburbs, we got to see regular Japanese life, rather than the tourist’s view.
