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But
as I said earlier, I do believe only in collective works, it was also painful
for me to accept this type of practical situation of not being able to form an
executive editorial board till then. Yet with the passing of every month OPA
was getting new poets. And the viewer-ship of our monthly web journal was
increasing every month. This had helped us a lot to continue with our work each
month. Then all of a sudden Paris had witnessed one of the deadliest terror
attacks on unarmed civilians. That was November 2015. Yes, not only this act of
terrorism made a worldwide shock; it had also pained me a great deal. I was
thinking about how insignificant we actually are. And I was feeling really a
sense of shame with working on mere poetry or literary works at that point of
time of colossal catastrophe. So I had planned to make one special issue on
Peace Poetry against War and Terrorism for OPA.
So I asked all most all of my social site friends to participate in that
venture to air our voice of protest against war and terrorism. To my sheer
astonishment I received an awesome response around the world. Even lot of
unknown friends, those who were friends of my friends participated in that
special number of OPA. I should like to mention especially Poet Lilian
Dipasupil Kunimasa of Philippines and Poet Anca Mihaela Bruma of Romania, Poet
Maria Miraglia of Italy as they had helped a lot to bring out the massive
edition of poetry collection, along with two other friends of mine Anna
Zapalska and Carolina Nazareno and few others. So on the 25th
December 2015 we published our first Anthology: Poetry for Peace against War
and Terrorism.
Yes
it was a success as so many poets had responded with number of their poetical
creations to air their personal voice of protest against these types of inhuman
activities. And with their help OPA had presented one collective effort of
human conscience to stand up to the occasion. I would like to share few lines
from the preface of that issue for our present readers. “We think it is
also the moral responsibility of poets and writers alike to put their
individual voice of protest, agony, pain and sufferings in words and lines in
this time of political turbulence everywhere. Nobody is sure about who is the
offender or protector. Now and then innocent peoples are dying in the most
violent manner one could imagine. There is no life security for the citizens
around the world. People have lost beliefs in the honesty and integrity of the
society and political institutions alike. You don’t know where to turn up for
shelter and security. You don’t know when the next suicidal terrorist attack
will occur and where. Such is the situation in most of the regions of the
world. So this is the moment to shift
our focus from mere literary work to use our literary tools to voice our
individual protest in a collective manner. No, this is not a political debate
for us. We are only concerned with the security and prosperity of human beings
everywhere irrespective of their cast and religion, race and nationality,
beliefs and doubts, language and culture. This is the time we thought OUR
POETRY ARCHIVE should come out with this noble project focusing these issues
and addressing the world in poetry for peace against war and terrorism.”
With
that success of collective protest OPA achieved a little bit of fame. And we
were fortunate enough to have poet Deborah Brooks Langford among us immediate
after. Yes she brought so many new poets to OPA, even it was she herself who
had brought us our present Editor poet and author Stacia Lynn Reynolds. I
should also like to mention poet Alicja Maria Kuberska of Poland and Maria Miraglia of Italy who have made OPA
so popular in Europe. So at last we were able to form that elusive editorial
board with Alicja Maria Kuberska, Anca Mihaela Bruma, Deborah
Brooks Langford, Maria Miraglia and the Editor Stacia Lynn Reynolds and myself.
This was the story of OPA along with the path of her success so far. During
which we have published another two anthologies one against racism and most
recently the anthology of women poetry. We had also published four continental
special editions bringing in almost all the different literary traditions and
heritages around the world to make OPA truly a world platform of Poets and
Poetry.
This
January we are also introducing eleven new poets. We are also glad to present
Poetess ALICIA
MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ of Mexico as the Poet Of the Month. Readers will find one
long interview with the poet for the first time in OPA. Author Deborah Brooks
Langford and Author Stacia Lynn Reynolds had supervised the entire interview
for OPA.
We
sincerely thank each poet and reader who is actively involved in this wonderful
monthly web journal and continued their support of Our Poetry Archive.
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Dear Poet Nilavro Nill, I read your commentary. I just figured OPA had been around for awhile. Your thoughts and words about the "violence" in the world now, from one of the first OPA Poet collections. And the statement of, "how insignificant we all really are". That still holds true in todays world. Worsening. In a world that I did not grow up in. I cannot imagine a more significant dream than to join people together from all over the globe, (that wasn't easy for you) to share their own hearts and thoughts. I too felt it began here in the U.S. with the 9-11 attacks. Each one of the 3000 faces, had a family, a dream, and I don't ever want anyone forgotten, as it happens so often now, that I question, "Are we now Numb to these atrocities"? NO! What are we/they fighting for? "Supremecy"? And there's is dark dream. Thank you for bringing the world together here. Your dream came true ! Promoting a "One-ness" of the world. Together, we will always be stronger! Thank you for adding me, once again !
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