Thank you so much, Dr Ratan Bhattacharjee, for this feature article. It was a huge surprise this morning.
https://epaper.sentinelassam.com/edition/SaturdayFare/THESENTI_SATF/THESENTI_SATF_20240831/page/3
His article discusses extraordinarysunshineweaver.com, Masticadores.com, and my editing of MasticadoresUSA. It also mentions my two books and quotes some lines.
Too Much Fun To Be Legal (Garden of Neuro, 2024) was just released. Nolcha Fox and I co-wrote it. Our collaborative poems were a delight to write! Each day we swapped verses for poems using Google Docs. The poetry covers topics of grief, aging, illness, death, and other deep topics in a light-hearted way. We had fun with missing socks, marbles, and the UPS Guy.
Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (Experiments in Fiction, 2022), my first poetry collection, is a deep dive into my relationship with my mother, who had Alzheimer’s. When I told my uncle Mom would be moving close to me so that I could help her, he asked me if I loved my mother. His question opened up a review of my life with her and the reasons why I would or would not have trouble caring for her.
A Shout Out to Dr Ratan Bhattacharjee!
Dr Ratan Bhattacharjee is the 2024 International Tagore Award Winner and an Affiliate Faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He is a multilingual poet and columnist, and the President of Kaleidoscopic Indian American Society. His short story collection Six Feet Distance has recently been published in the USA. His book Oleander Blooms was a best-seller, so he is known as the Oleander Poet. His debut poetry collection, The Ballad of the Bleeding Bubbles, was translated into Assamese. He has authored books on British and American literature, including Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Theodore Dreiser: Going Beyond Naturalism. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Global Journal’s Literary Confluence and Voice of Indian English Writers.
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