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CONTRIBUTORS
ARTWORKS
Alan Rogerson
Arne Walderhaug
Francie Aguilera
Izabella Pavlushko
Joseph A. Burgos Jr
Karunesh Kumar Agrawal
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Vittorio F. Cavalli
REFLECTIONS
Albert Russo
Joseph A. Burgos Jr.
Joseph Aprile
Louie Levy
Moshé Liba
Stan Buchholtz
Vadim Filatov
LITERARY CRITICISM
Joseph S. Spence, Sr.
Santosh Kumar
Steve McCarty
SHORT STORIES
Alan M. Danzis
Andrew Coburn
Andrew Geyer
Andrew McIntyre
Ann Pinson Cassin
Eric Tessier
D. R. Prescott
Floriana Hall
Fran Shaw, Ph.D
G. K. Wuori
Gary Alexander Azerier
George Sparling
James Nantau
James Skinner
Janet K. Brennan
Jerry Craven
Jim Ganley
Jim Harrington
Kevin D. Burgess
Lynda M Ortiz
Morowa Yejide
Nikki Hahn
Ralph M. DeFrangesco
Robert Wexelblatt
Steve Mogg
Stephen Shepherd
Steve Morris
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An
International Literary Journal
VOLUME 7
NUMBER 2
DECEMBER 2008
(14th
Issue)
Edited
by:
Dr.
Santosh Kumar
Binding: Paperback & Hardback (pp: 360 with a separate section of authors bio) ISSN:
0972-6004
Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2
days) Publisher:
Cyberwit.net,
India Pub. Date: December 2008 Condition: New
Front Cover Art:
©
Albert Russo photo taken in Eilat, Red Sea, Israel
From
The Editor
Best
wishes for a Happy New Year! May God’s best
Blessings make your New Year happy!
TMR
December 2008 brings to the readers a
varied collection of poems, haiku,
short stories, artwork, book reviews and
many other illuminating things such as literary
facts, gems of quotations etc. This journal is
publishing creative
writings and artwork for several years.
Without the cooperation and kind support
provided by the creative artists included in this
issue Taj is inconceivable. I have been receiving
an increasingly vast number of
poems, shorter fiction and artwork, but it
is not possible to publish each artist due to lack
of space. Therefore only those compositions have
been selected for this issue, which reveal
author’s passionate thinking about life,
transcendentalism, mood of the new century,
idealism in accordance with reason and
commonsense, and concentrating on inner
experience.
With
great pleasure I write that both I and Karunesh
Kumar Agrawal attended Oslo Literature Festival,
Norway
: WORDS-ONE PATH TO PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING, 18-20
September 2008. It is a great service, fertile in
consequence, to the cause of world literature that
Eli Borchgrevink and Adam Donaldson Powell have
done to bring together the creative artists from
the four continents. Brynjar, Nasra, Thorborg did
a lot to make the festival a grand success. A
great truth was laid upon us in the Oslo Literary
Festival as the authors from Norway, South Africa,
France, Spain, Italy, Canada, Uruguay, Sweden and
India dined together and revitalized the entire
scene by discussions
and interviews about Multilingual literature,
current and future trends in electronic
publishing, Adam Donaldson Powell
reading five poems in five languages. The
papers presented were full of psychological
insight and philosophic vision. It is really an
unforgettable experience for me to feel
‘exquisite variety and varied exquisiteness’,
and remember the glistening images of
Oslo
festival.
Hearty
congratulations
to Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, 47, on his
being elected 44th
President of the
United States
. He defeated Senator John McCain. I also offer my
congratulations to the French writer J.M.G. Le Clézio,
for winning 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was
cited as "author of new departures, poetic
adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a
humanity beyond and below the reigning
civilization.”
I’m
trying my best to publish talented poets, haiku,
short story writers and artists worldwide for
Peace and Brotherhood. Biography of each artist is
provided in a separate section of the issue. I’m
deeply obliged to the authors and artists included
in this issue for generous support and kind
cooperation in bringing out this edition of TMR.
Best Wishes for a HAPPY NEW YEAR.
SANTOSH KUMAR
Chief Editor
We are eager to help our readers or visitors in
any way we can. Please write us
at: editorpoems@yahoo.com
POEMS
Adam Donaldson Powell
Alan Catlin
Albert Russo
April Bulmer
Ashutosh Ghildiyal
Babitha Marina Justin
Changming Yuan
Cherilyn Leslie Fry
Cheryl Hicks
Chitra G. Lele
Christine Magee
Davide Trame
Del Senkbeil
Dimitris P. Kraniotis
Eric M. Vogt
Ernest Williamson III
Fran Shaw, Ph.D.
Gerard Sarnat
Greta Aart
Hunter Austin
J. Alan Nelson
J.E.M. Wellen
James Keane
Jan Oskar Hansen
Janann Dawkins
John Hart 235
Juan Carlos Abeti
Jude Aquilina
Juhi Sharma
June Nandy
Karen A Sperry
LeAnne Kline
Louie Levy
Lynn Strongin
Mara Ptacek
Marcia Miller-Twiford
María Cristina Azcona
Mariia Subotovych
Maryse Schouella
Matthew T. Birdsall
Moshé Liba
Nikesh Murali
Nicholas A. Alvarado
Oliver Rice
Orania Hamilton
Peggy Landsman
Rachel White
Raina Hutchins
Rhoda Galgiani
Roseann Geiger
Rose Marie Streeter
Ruth Sabath Rosenthal
Shanu Goyal
Shirley Bolstok
Silvana Pedrini
Stephen Pray
So. Noël
Suzie Palmer
Teri Schwartz
x&al danzabel
Zyskandar A. Jaimot
HAIKU
Adelaide B. Shaw
André Surridge
Ban’ya Natsuishi
Dietmar Tauchner
Doris Kasson
Doug Ryan (magyar)
Ferre DENIS
Geert Verbeke
George Swede
Graham Nunn
Elena Naskova
John McDonald
Keith A. SIMMONDS
Kimberley S. Jordan-Horte
Lars Granström
Nola Terrassin
Patricia Prime
Patrick Ryan Dunn Sullivan
Phyllis Jean Green
Raffael de Gruttola
Rano Singh
Raquel D. BAILEY
Robert D. Wilson
Sayumi Kamakura
Steven Brewer
Tad I. Wojnicki
Quendryth Young
GEMS OF THOUGHTS
REVIEWS
Albert Russo’s Existentialism in Shalom Tower
AUTHOR INDEX
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