Three Poems in The Sunflower Collective

The Sunflower Collective is the newest poetry initiative I know of. It’s not your usual poetry blog. And it’s not just poetry for the sake of poetry. There are specific aesthetics and ethos here, some of which may not sit pretty, even though the poetry maybe pretty…pretty powerful. But more than my words, read what they themselves have to say:

“The Sunflower collective is a blog that celebrates Dilettantism in Poetry and aims at showcasing poets who have not necessarily been trained formally. We plan to publish and reprint works of both published and unpublished poets we like. We dig the Beats and Hungryalist schools of poetry and believe in John Coltrane’s philosophy that all good art is introspective, personal and hence, political.”

Also read their manifesto:

http://sunflowercollective.blogspot.in/2015/07/a-call-for-return-to-dilettantism-in_19.html?utm_source=BP_recent

And yes, given all that, I’m pretty proud to have had three of my poems chosen from a bunch that I’d sent, by the editors for their latest post. My poems ‘Bitter Coffee,’ ‘Headache’ and ‘How We Bring Happiness into Our Lives’ in the link below:

http://sunflowercollective.blogspot.in/2015/11/poems-rk-biswas.html