Photograph Bitan Chakraborty Kiriti Sengupta is a practising dentist and a poet, and the two roles inform each other: clinical precision meets a meditative attention to everyday life. He divides his time between New Delhi and Santiniketan, the university town Rabindranath Tagore founded as a centre for learning and the arts, and this dual…

Mount Kissavos viewed from Pineios bridge in Larissa. Photograph Konstantinos Agiannis Dimitris P. Kraniotis was born in 1966 and grew up in Stomio, Larissa, Greece where Hippocrates himself spent his later years living and practicing medicine. Dimitris followed in the footsteps of Hippocrates. After studying Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, he established his medical practice…

Photograph Tina Bexson by Tina Bexson I decided to run extra early. Just rats and foxes to eye me from the sidelines, penetrating the air with their activities of the night. And like a cat burglar at his most productive I prowled the streets with omnipotence. My darkly clothed lithe frame, and wide stride,…

Photograph Renan Lima, Pexels by Richard Steinhardt Stasis is a state of stability, equilibrium, or inactivity, with meanings that vary across contexts. The word comes from the Greek stasis, meaning standing or stoppage. In medical and pathological contexts, it refers to the slowing or stoppage of bodily fluids, as in venous stasis. In biology, stasis…

Ever since I stumbled on Sonnet Mondal’s poems, I have been captivated by their stunning simplicity and words evoking a magical experience. That he achieves this consistently is breath-taking. In this occasional series, our aim is to connect you with some of these exceptional beauties I come across. These are rare, as they don’t…

Photograph El Capra by Peter Cowlam The Transmutation Si came down from the fields, where he’d been working, for the day was nearly departed. The sun had sunk towards the mountains, while the mingling hues of evening had faded in a wash of summer twilight. It was a pleasant, tranquil hour. As was his…

Photograph Salih Pexels.com A Water Jog of Larks You wore zopilotes in your hairand you didn’t knowyou went down to the river to submergethe light blue as you movedthe river washed you of timethe river carried your time awayWhen are you from?How much of you has gone?in the depths of dream you gather flowersA…

Armendia Qyqja. Courtesy of the author A few years ago, I published an anthology of contemporary Albanian poetry called The New Condemned with my company World Inkers Printing and Publishing. Its purpose was to document the effects of the repressive communist regime on Albanian culture and to highlight its cultural uniqueness in literature. This…

The USA targeted and killed 175 girls in its opening salvo against Iran. The US people are now deeply demoralised at home and the US government and corporations are desperately hated abroad for their death dealing and grotesque warmongering. Mehr News Agency My second letter to Trump was written in the warning tone of…

My visitors were mule deer, not pronghorn antelope. Photo by Samuel Sweet Pexels.com A reply to the article: Carol Rumens & the Birth of the Online Literary Commons Dear virtual Phil, What a surprise. Thank you for including such a stimulating delving down to the seeds of the keiretsu-cooperative in your elegant tribute to…

The Poet and founder of the International Colloquium of Poetry and Philosophy, Ulises Paniagua Olivares Our wondrous journey to the 6th International Colloquium of Poetry and Philosophy The International Colloquium of Poetry and Philosophy comes round again. This year, 2026, it happens in two countries: Colombia (face-to-face) and Mexico (online). The celebrations will take…

Sara. Illustration Pete Field An Extract from Paul Halas’s forthcoming book, Sara’s Lives To be published by AN Editions in March 2027 The Riversmeet Coffeehouse was just opening when we approached it, but they were happy to serve us very fine St Helena Peaberry coffees and a couple of excellent but horribly expensive croissants.…

Welsh Tea Cakes. Zingy Yellow. Wikimedia Commons Reflections on English and Welsh Nationalism by Pete Field Before I start asking questions I must state my position. I am English, from the North-East of England and I support a United Ireland, an Independent Scotland, a free Wales and independence for the North of England. Devolution…

The White Nile. Photograph Flavia Corpas At Ars Notoria we are pleased to be able to introduce Jennifer Johnson to our readers. She was born in 1956 in Sudan, by the side of the Nile, between Khartoum and what is now the border of South Sudan – on the edge of the dividing line…

A B-29 over Osaka on 1 June 1945. US Air Force Public Domain “Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only ONE day, of modern warfare.” — Peter Ustinov, actor, writer, and director (16 Apr…