Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is an Indian-American poet, writer, filmmaker, and author of four poetry collections. Her poetry, essays, and translations have appeared in notable journals worldwide, and her works have been translated into many languages. Poems from her award-winning book Bare Soul and a poetry film, River of Songs, included in the Nova Collection and the Polaris Collection of the Lunar Codex time capsules, are set to go to the moon with NASA’s Nova-C lander missions to Oceanus Procellarum in 2022 and NASA’s Viper rover mission to the lunar south pole in 2023. Her forthcoming poetry collection, Trespassing My Ancestral Lands, is in the making.
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It did not weep
did not plead for mercy
nor complain.
It fell silently,
the tree.
~~~
My hands,
yellow as its flesh
dripping white blood,
shuddering with
th...
Photo: Kalpna Chitnis-Singh
HOW FORTUNATE IT IS to be born in a small town in the eastern state of Bihar, India, I learned only when I once went to seek the blessings of a hig...
Kedarnath Singh / Courtesy of Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Editor’s note: Three of Kedarnath Singh’s poems, translated into English by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, appeared on the WLT blo...