Dustin Pickering is founder of Transcendent Zero Press. He has contributed to Huffington Post, Café Dissensus Everyday, The Statesman (India), Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, The Colorado Review, World Literature Today, Asymptote, and several other publications. He was given the honor Knight of World Peace by the World Institute for Peace in 2022. He is author of the poetry collections Salt and Sorrow, Knows No End, The Alderman, Only and Again, The Nothing Epistle, The Stone and the Square, and several others, as well as the novella Be Not Afraid of What You May Find. His most recent book is Crime of the Extraordinary (Hawakal Publishers, 2024). You can find him on Instagram: @poetpickering and Twitter: @DustinPickerin2.

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Gopal Lahiri’s Poetry of Motion
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Gopal Lahiri’s Poetry of Motion
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The ecopoems in Gopal Lahiri’s Anemone Morning delve into a kind of exploratory myth that engages readers with creative potential, stressing that there could be no division between who we are and where we are. By Dustin Pickering

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In the Unifying Language of Verse
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In the Unifying Language of Verse
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Published in India’s 75th year of Independence, Converse: Contemporary English Poetry by Indians (2022) presents unique and diverse voices from the diaspora, with poems that are a sustained discussion with history, oneself, the environment, myth, science, and relationships. By Dustin Pickering

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The Undying Muse: Nivedita Dey’s LARKSPUR LANE
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The Undying Muse: Nivedita Dey’s LARKSPUR LANE
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Whimsical and wise, reflective and poignant, Nivedita Dey poems are a contrast to the gloomy poetry of our age, even while delving into the darkest recesses. She passionately declares space for poetry’s possibilities and promises. By Dustin Pickering

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No one an outsider in the holy city
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No one an outsider in the holy city
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Spun with compassion and realism, the stories from Varanasi in Vivek Nath Mishra’s collection No One An Outsider ask contrasting questions of belonging, compassion, self-destructiveness, and death. By Dustin Pickering

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