I was born in a city where pigeons chat in the old cemetery and parrots sing to the jar of red-hot chili. Prostitutes wait as engines throttle in the red light….

 

 

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Sankar Roy, originally from India, is a poet, translator, activist and multimedia artist living near Pittsburgh, PA. He is a winner of PEN USA Emerging Voices, author of three chapbooks of poetry– Moon Country (Pudding House 2006), The House My Father Could Not Build (Pudding House, 2007) and Mantra of the Born-free (Pudding House, 2007). He is an associate editor of international poetry anthology, Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Rupa Publication, India and Bayeux Arts, Canada). Sankar's poems have appeared or forthcoming in over forty literary journals including Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Connecticut Review, Harpur Palate, Icon, Runes, Rhino and Poetry Magazine. His recent project is creating a multimedia website (www.writersalliance.net ) against the genocide in Darfur. He is a co-founder of Poets for Humanity (www.poetsforhumanity.com ).