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Jyothsnaphanija

Jyothsnaphanija teaches English Literature at ARSD College (University of Delhi), India. Her first poetry collection Ceramic Evening appeared in 2016. Her poems have recently appeared in Quail Bell, ShotGlass, The Hopper, Mixed Mag, short stories in The Bombay Review, Feminist Wire, translations in Gulmohur Quarterly, Chakkar, articles and reviews in Kitaab, Cafe Dissensus and others. She is also a singer and a traveller.
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Paper Sweet

This old palm leaf tells us children some stories of her time to put us to sleepAbout how she discovered her childhood in watchingHer mother making paper sweets,home filled every day with sharp sun light on the mother’s eager hands, the sheets
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Green Room

If she gets sometimes offOpens the portfolio from her voice and singsChildren cry for attention or quarrel over shabby rags or iron blade or broken plastic lid.This is the only time she wipes off whiskey stainse-liquid drip in her mist like songs.Frantic
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