The Earthen Flute

Kiriti Sengupta, who has recently been awarded the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize (2018) for this outstanding contribution to literature, is a poet, editor, and translator from Calcutta, India. He has published nine books of poetry and prose, including Solitary Stillness, Reflections on Salvation, The Earthen Flute, A Freshman's Welcome, Healing Waters Floating Lamps, The Reverse Tree, My Dazzling Bards, My Glass of Wine, The Reciting Pens, and The Unheard I; two books of translation, Desirous Water by Sumita Nandy, Poem Continuous-Reincarnated Expressions by Bibhas Roy Chowdhury; and is the co-editor of five anthologies, Scaling Heights, Jora Sanko-The Joined Bridge, Epitaphs, Sankarak, and Selfhood. His poems have been widely anthologized, both nationally and internationally, in Kritya, Taj Mahal Review, Labyrinth, Grey Sparrow Journal, Oddball Magazine, Dukool, Wilderness House Literary Review, and elsewhere. More at www.kiritisengupta.com