Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
Sonnet Mondal is the author Ink and Line (2014) and four other books of poetry. His poems and works have appeared in the Kyoto journal, Irish Examiner, the World Literature Today, the Mcneese Review, Palestine Chronicle, Drunken Boat, Indian Literature, Adroit Journal, Asia Literary Review and Two Thirds North.
Winner of the 2016 Gayatri Gamarsh Memorial award for literary excellence, Mondal was one of the authors of the ‘Silk Routes’ project of the IWP, University of Iowa, from 2014 to 2016. Sonnet’s poems in Slovenian translation by Barbara Pogacnik, were aired at the Literary Nokturno program of the Public Radio & Television of Slovenia in 2016 and most recently he has been included in Sahitya Akademi’s Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians edited by Sudeep Sen.
Mondal led an Indian cultural delegation to the Ars Poetica International Festival, Slovakia in November 2016 and read at the 2017 edition of the Cork International Poetry festival, Ireland. A Writer in Residence at Sierra Neveda College‘s MFA in Creative Writing program, Mondal represented India at the 10th year anniversary edition of the International Istanbul Poetry and Literature Festival.
A globetrotter, Mondal is based out of Kolkata and currently works as the series editor of the Enchanting Verses Literary Review.
Website: www.sonnetmondal.com
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