2026 EnglishEng: 1 May 2026

Lopamudra Bannerjee’s poem : Dirge of Nothingness

Lopamudra Banerjee

And so, it had been assumed

Anticipated, scribbled with promise

I couldn’t see the stars

Amid piles of my paper scraps

I couldn’t create a sermon, a delightful psalm

At least a near-finished poem

For my Sunday morning musings.

And then, it went on

A deep-rooted dirge of nothingness

The futile search for a stealthy cadence.

I couldn’t see the stars

Their floating images, dying out

As forgotten motifs in the artless sky.

And so, it had been assumed

I couldn’t see the stars

Amid rubbles of the metamorphosed world.

But in my frayed edges, galaxies are born

Clamoring for heaven of a different kind.

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Lopamudra Bannerjee reads a poem

Lopamudra Banerjee

Lopamudra Banerjee is an author, poet, translator, editor with nine solo books and six anthologies in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She has received the Journey Awards (First Place category winner) for her memoir ‘Thwarted Escape: An Immigrant’s Wayward Journey,’ the International Reuel Prize for Translation (2016) and also International Reuel Prize for Poetry (2017) and other honors. Her poetry has been published in renowned platforms including ‘Life in Quarantine’, the Digital Humanities Archive of Stanford University. Her collaborative poetry collection with Priscilla Rice Titled ‘We Are What We Are’ (Black Eagle Books, 2022) has been 1st Prize Winner at New York Book Festival 2024 and her translation of a famous Bengali historical/biographical novel titled ‘The Bard and His Sister-in-Law’ (Black Eagle Books, 2023) has received Honorary Mention at Paris Book Festival and Hollywood Book Festival 2024.

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