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OUR POETRY ARCHIVE
Dear friends we would like to thank you
all for taking our monthly web journal to a new height. Our Poetry Archive has
got a readership of more than 152300! With this March issue we are completing
our second year in web publishing. As you all know from last October 2016 we
are publishing special Continental numbers focusing on poets and poetry of a
particular Continent in a single volume. We had already published the European
special number of OPA in October 2016. Where poets from all over Europe had
participated with their poems both with the original version of the poems and
the version translated in English. We had done this only to facilitate our
European readers to enjoy their favorite poets in their own languages. After
the success of this endeavor, last December’16 we published the North American
Special edition of OPA, which was a huge success! Now this March we are
presenting our 3rd Continental Special edition covering entire
Africa. Readers can read poems of poets from Algeria to Mauritius, From Egypt
to South Africa, from Tunisia to Kenya, From Nigeria to Uganda. Still we are
not satisfied as all the countries of this great Continent and the various
literary traditions have not been covered in this single volume. Yet we can
guarantee that our readers will enjoy an African flavor in this special number
of OPA. Our specials thank goes to the poet contributors of this volume for
participating in this special edition of OPA. More over this March we are
introducing a lot of new poets to our regular readers. We hope you would enjoy
the poetic merit of these young talents. It is one of the principals of Our
Poetry Archive to give the younger generations an opportunity to showcase their
individual talents in the international arena of literary fraternity. And we
are continuing with this principal from the very beginning of our journey in
web publishing.
Is poetry the supreme expression of the
noblest human emotions: of love and sympathy; of awareness of the infinite
value of life; of the realizations of the eternal truth through the strokes of
individual talents of creative genius? Yes poetry is all these together in a
single volume of human brilliance! And a poet’s life is the extension of human
consciousness into the eternal essence of life and sympathy! His soul belongs
to the future as well as to the present of his own time with the cultural
heritage of his predecessors. So a true poet lives not only in his contemporary
time but also in the time future with his cultural heritage projecting the
eternal essence of human sympathy and consciousness.
It is the magic of poetry which every poet
wants to live with, to explore and to put an individual signature of brilliance
into it. So we with our limited capacity wish to capture this entire phenomenon
in this online monthly poetry journal and want to present our readers a flavor
of contemporary poetical activity around the world. So next April we’ll again
explore the different literary traditions and various poetical heritages that
are expressing their cultural excellence through the individual literary
brilliance of the present day poets of Europe, North and South America and
Australia, New Zealand. So we are extending an open invitation only to all the
poets of these regions to participate in our next issue.
Our next Continental Special edition will
feature the poets with Asian origin. So
for this scheduled special edition we would also like to invite our friends
from all over Asia to participate with their literary contributions. This edition
is scheduled to be published in MAY’17. We would request you all, to clearly
mention the Month in the subject line of your mail so that we know of which
number you are contributing. And it is our humble request to all the poets and
friends, please do provide us with your short BIO, written only in 3rd
person narrative with all your submissions, so that we can introduce you with
our international readers properly. It’ll also help you to reach to a much
wider audience. People will recognize you instantly by your name.
Poetry is also a means to transcend our
personal visionary limitations to reach the cultural extensions of our traditions
and inheritance in this ever changing world. Poetry also constantly propels us
towards the future. And a literary magazine or specially a poetical journal has
much to offer to ensure communication between the poet and the readers evolving
through traditions and cultural inheritance. So we would constantly keep on
trying to establish these live communications, and only to ensure this, like
our previous numbers we are presenting poet Silas Abayomi of Nigeria, currently
living in US as the “Poet of The Month’ in this special African number of OPA.
Readers will find an interview of the poet taken by our editorial team
supervised by poetess Deborah Brooks Langford and poetess Stacia Lynn
Reynolds. We are really grateful to the
poet for the interview and hope our readers will also enjoy both his poems and
interview.
The last date of submission for both the
April and May issue is 21st March 2017. We would like to request everyone to submit
at least 3 poems with one profile picture and the short Bio, along with the
explicit confirmation, of your permission, to publish your copyrighted
materials to Our Poetry Archive. Our email address is: ourpoetryarchive@gmail.com
Please specify, in the subject line of
your email, which edition you are submitting to, to avoid any confusion, and to
assure your poems are published in the correct edition. We sincerely thank each
poet, poetess and reader who is actively involved in this wonderful blog and
continued support of Our Poetry Archive. You are greatly appreciated.
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