Writer’sLifeline:   AN  ONLINE VOICE OF CREATIVE & CRITICAL WRITERS

(for poets, writers, publishers, booksellers, librarians, teachers)

Please send your submissions directly to the relative editor:

Chief Editor: Dr. Stephen Gill

Poetry: Dr. Anuradha Sharma ( manurma38@gmail.com                                                                                                                                                                                

Articles and bk. Review: to be announced

Publicity, News: Dr.Ram Sharma (dr.ramsharma786@gmail.com

Advisory Board: Frank Joussen ( Germany); Dr. Olimpia Jacob (Romania);

Dr. Alka Agarwal (India); Dr. Peggy Lynch (USA); Dr. Kanwar Dinesh Singh (India)

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Year 2011 About Us   Disclaimer  Your Editor   SGWorld Peace Academy

==Veronica’ literary world, comprising of imagination, intuition, illumination and reflection, is a thinking world, where thoughts prosper and glow and where within each thought is nestled… To read this review by KK Srivastava, please click HERE

--Dr. Sheeba Rakesh from Lucknow University, India, invites research papers, authentic, scholarly and unpublished, from all over the world for an anthology.  She feels that  this anthology would be an important  step  in the direction of understanding women…. For details, please click HERE

--Volumes have been written on the tragedies of Japan. One is tsunami and another is the nuclear disaster.  Dhriti Sharma from Gujarat, India, has written a timely song. To read this song, entitled Hope for Japan, please click HERE

--in just a matter of moments
the hawk left without lunch…

To read the complete poem from Judith Pittman from the USA, please click HERE

--Convergence of Two Cultures in the Digital Age by  N.D.R. Chandra,  a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellow… To read this thought-provoking article, click HERE

--If  I come to your cross

with a white flower

In my suitcase

It will be towards the evening

And the fir branch

gently

will shake…..

To read this full beautiful lyric  and two other by Olimpia Jacob, a Romanian celebrated poet, please click HERE

 

 

--The daily incidents of murders
Terrorists attacks on innocents
Lives snatched away forcibly
Women forced to die… For full poem by Alka Agrawal,  Read

--Dr. Abha Kaushik is editing an anthology of post modern fiction. She seeks submissions. For details, please click PostModern

--- I am alone
I remember you

mother.

 A poem by Dr. Ram Sharma. To read click HERE

 

--My heart leaps with Pride—

My birthday is this memorable day!

Swaying and jumping with joy-

I shriek with a new-born Pride-

To read the full poem by Shiela Gujral, a celebrated poet of India, click HERE

 

-- I could ride to other realms, where spoken words were carpets… a poem by Smita Tewari. To Read

 

-- Mr. KK Srivastava “delivers some powerful lines that capture the aching exposure of life, the vulnerability of our core laid open,” says Patricia Prime in her review of Ineluctable Stillness. For full review, please click Read

 

--Dr. Anuradha Sharma’s edited anthology An Interpretation of Stephen Gill’s Mind and Art is going to be released in the second week of April by Sunbun publishers.  Award-winning author  Dr. Anuradha Sharma has been honored recently in Canada with awards, including one doctorate and ….READ

  

 

---I began dissipating

Into elements of light

 suffused as rays of blue and white.

To read this poem by Chittaranjan Misra, a poet from India, please Click HERE

 

-- Interview with poet K.K. Srivastava by       Patrick Sammut. Mr. Srivastava from India is a poet and also an accountant. How he is able to handle his love for poetry and profession is interesting. For this and other questions, please click HERE     

 

--Dr. Tarun Tapas Mukherjee invites papers for Rupkatha Journal. For details, please click HERE

 

--She is a light whose life has taken wing,
A joyful butterfly with smiling face,
Reflecting happiness that makes me sing
And fills me with a sense of God’s own grace


TO READ THIS BEAUTIFUL POEM  BY CLAIRE OTTENSTEIN ROSS,  DEDICATED TO PEGGY LYNCH, PLEASE CLICK HERE

 

-- The children play in the sunshine

In a nascent dawn born of baited bliss….

To read complete poem by Durlabh Singh from UK, please clock HERE

 

--A poem by a prominent poet of India,  Shiela Gujral, in her own hand-writing. To read this  lovely piece, please click HERE

 

--Bhakti Yoga which is ingrained in the teachings of Bhagvad Geeta and Bhagvat Purana  teaches the gospel of love. Dr. Stephen Gill follows the same line to achieve peace through  peaceful means which indicates love, says Dr. Anuradha Sharma in this research artilcle, titled Indian Mythology, Peace & Stephen Gill. For full text,  READ

--Jasvinder Singh says:  Stephen Gill World Peace Academy (India) has opened a  new chapter under the orgies of Dr. Ram Sharma  to provide a platform for  poets and writers  from everywhere.  Its inaugural journal contains  thirty five poets, who express their views on world peace and… For full text   Read 

--I will float into your need
on a lifeboat

laden… a poem by  Josephine Stone. To read entire poem, please click here

 

-- CONSECRATED TO THE FLAME

It was a day of upheaval

Consecrated to the flame

Yet her face was a mass of calm

No wind disturbed its outer crust

     To read full poem by Farzana Quader

 

--Writer’s Lifeline will honor a few writers and poets from different nations with international award for peace. . Please nominate them.

 

-- Stephen Gill’s new novel, The Coexistence,  will be released by Orientalia, New Delhi,  in April when he is  in India on his literary tour in April and May. Set in Canada and India, the Coexistence provides a blueprint to live and let live, showing ideological clashes between the believers in the survival of the fittest and cooperation. More..  Read

---Dr. Stephen Gill will be the guest of honor at the international conference, Khairgarh University in Chattisgarh, India, to be held from Feb. 26 to Feb. 28. For full information, please click HERE

 

---Professor Dr. NDR Chandra , Editor, Journal of Literature, and Fulbright-Nehru Post-doctoral Fellow at Brown University, Providence, USA, invites scholarly papers on the works of Stephen Gill to be published in War and Peace in the Works of Stephen Gill, an anthology. Dr. Chandra says that Stephen Gill is the voice of our time. He believes that the world can achieve peace, human dignity, and global unity through multicultural outlook,  and democratic elected world government.  It is high time to assess the works of Stephen Gill  in the light of war and peace as he prescribes solution to the present day maladies in his poetry, fiction  articles, interviews and particularly in his novel The coexistence. For complete information, please click HERE

 

--Stephen Gill, an Indo-Canadian writer very deftly portrays the trials and tribulations of his own experience as a member of the Diaspora in his novel, Immigrant (1982). Cultural shock, discrimination, racism, frustration and alienation mark the life of his protagonist Reghu Nath when he arrives in Canada from India… To read in details what Prof. Dr. Ghanshyam says in this paper that is to be included in Dr. Kanwar Dinesh Singh’s anthology,  please click HERE

 

--Dr. Kanwar Dinesh Singh, an award-winning writer and teacher of English at a college in India seeks material for an anthology he is editing on Stephen Gill. For complete information, please click HERE

 

--Notes of poetry in word or song
can pass through  barriers
erected to keep out freedom's message

For complete poem from Peggy Lynch, a celebrated

poet from Texas, USA, Pl. click HERE

 

---Read three latest poems from a celebrated German poet, Frank Joussen  poems

-- A close study of the art,  craft and message of The Flame   makes The Flame Unmasked   immensely useful   reference work for scholars and  lovers of  modern  poetry. This critical study is a tribute to  The Flame and its poet Stephen Gill who has dedicated himself to the cause of peace and human concerns. For further views by Jasvinder Singh on the book edited by Dr. Sudhir Arora, please click FLAME

--Dr. Gautam says that like W.B. Yeats, Stephen Gill seems overjoyed and overawed by the solitude and beauty, which are essential characteristics of nature. The majority of critics, who have written about Gill’s poetry, have seen him as a poet of peace and harmony. His nature poetry that constitutes a significant area of his whole poetic corpus has been largely neglected. Ravichandran is right when he says… Full Text

--The poem Hope by Susheel Kumar Sharma is an attempt to capture the persona in various moods, among various problems—physical and psychological—and of course various solutions that come to him from his consciousness and through tradition.  HOPE

--Dr. Anuradha Sharma finds the landscape of Vasudhaiva Kutumbkam in the works of Stephen Gill. She says that Vasudhaiva Kutumbkam is a Sanskrit Idiom which means that the complete world is a one single family. The phrase comes from Hitopdesha, a collection of Sanskrit fables in prose and verse that were written in 12th century. The concept of Vasudhaiva Kutumbkam can also be related to the concept of the global village and is similar to that of African concept of Ubuntu. For details read this fascinating research paper HERE.