Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
Journalist-poet, Tiamerenla Monalisa Changkija, is the only woman editor, proprietor and publisher of an English Daily – Nagaland Page – in the Northeast. She was awarded the 2009 Chameli Devi Jain Awarded for an Outstanding Woman Mediaperson. Her first volume of poetry Weapons of Words on Pages of Pain was published in 1993 and her second, Monsoon Mourning, in 2007. Changkija’s book, Cogitating for a Better Deal, a compilation of six seminar papers, published in 2014, was banned by the Ao Senden, the tribal Hoho of the Ao tribe, to which she belongs. Her fourth book, Middles, a non-fiction, published by Heritage Publishing House, Dimapur, Nagaland, was released in 2018, at Kohima.
For the year 2013, Monalisa Changkija was awarded the Nagaland Governor’s Award for Distinction (Outstanding Achievements and Contribution) in Literature on January 26, 2014. Her poems are taught in the Undergraduate and Postgraduate English courses in Nagaland University. The North East Hills University has selected some of her poems for its M. Phil course. Nagaland Board of School Education has also introduced her poems in the Alternative English course for Class 9.
Her short stories, poems and features have been published in several anthologies, journals, magazines and newspapers.
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