ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

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A collaboration with Marianne Szlyk and Angelee Deodhar

An eye surgeon by profession, Dr. Angelee Deodhar, is a haiku poet, translator, and artist.  Her haiku, haibun, short stories and haiga have been published internationally in various books and journals, and her work can be viewed online too.  To promote haiku in India, she has translated six books of haiku from English to Hindi, the other official language of India.  She has edited both Journeys and Journeys 2015: an Anthology of International Haibun (available on Amazon), which has a total of 145 haibu by 31 poets of international repute.   She lives and works in Chandigarh, India.

Marianne Szlyk is the editor of The Song Is…, an associate poetry editor at Potomac Review, and a professor of English at Montgomery College. Her second chapbook, I Dream of Empathy, was published by Flutter Press.  Her poems have appeared in a variety of online and print venues, including Silver Birch Press, Cactifur, Of/with, bird’s thumb, Truck, Algebra of Owls, The Blue Mountain Review, and Yellow Chair Review.  Two poems have received nominations for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize respectively.  Her first chapbook is available through Kind of a Hurricane Press.  She hopes that you will consider sending work to her magazine. For more information about it, see this link: https://thesongis.blogspot.com/

For more on the work of Marianne Szlyk click on button to see her Artist-in-Residence page