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World Poetry Project

Welcome to the community blog of DelSlam. Here you can read about the work we do and the poets we support. Share your thoughts in the comments section.

Thangavelu Chinnasamy

Thangavelu Chinnasamy

Thangavelu Chinnasamy is a retired Senior Section Officer from the Accounts Department of Indian Railways, with a continued passion for poetry, research, and education.

Sukriti Chopra

Sukriti Chopra

Sukriti Chopra is a poet and writer who draws her creative inspiration from her nomadic living of the past decade.

Prachi Dhawan

Prachi Dhawan

Prachi Dhawan is a high-school student. She is a young aspiring poet who finds solace and home in words. Poetry is incredibly special to her.

Harshit Bisht

Harshit Bisht

I am a Computer Science undergraduate student, an entrepreneur by the day and a poet during my spare time.

Gayatri Varma

Gayatri Varma

Gayatri is a writer from India. She mostly writes at night and when not writing can be found making tea, listening to K-pop, or baking a cake.

Dr. Ratna Jyoti Dutta Chowdhury

Dr. Ratna Jyoti Dutta Chowdhury

A civil engineer by profession works in the government in an administrative position at a senior position as an engineer in Assam, India. Interested in literary pursuits.

Cheritha Kaiwar

Cheritha Kaiwar

Cheritha Kaiwar is a young writer and poet from Bengaluru, India.

Lehzareen Rana

Lehzareen Rana

Lehzareen Rana is a 13-year-old aspiring poet from India and England who uses poetry as a means of self-expression.

Anjali Aggarwal

Anjali Aggarwal

Anjali Aggarwal is a working professional currently living in India, where she independently manages her own portfolio in the stock market.

 

Prisha Agarwal

Prisha Agarwal

Hailing from a small town in West Bengal, Prisha Agarwal spends her days learning about the human body as a dedicated medical student and her evenings writing poems that encapsulate her life experiences as an aspiring poet. 

Aditi Bhardwaj

Aditi Bhardwaj

Aditi is a 16-year old poet and student at Aligarh Muslim University, India.

Vishesh Khurana

Vishesh Khurana

Vishesh Khurana is a young writer currently studying at Delhi University. 

Nifasath Farhana

Nifasath Farhana

Nifasath Farhana, a software analyst by profession, passionate about writing articles, poetry in her spare time.

Khushi Jain

Khushi Jain

Khushi Jain is a second-year undergraduate student at Ashoka University, pursuing a double major in English and Creative Writing

Joan Gelfand

Joan Gelfand

Author of three collections of poetry, a chapbook of short fiction and a novel set in a Silicon Valley startup, Joan has taught for California Poets in the Schools,

Rob Greene

Rob Greene

Rob Greene is the founder and publisher of Raleigh Review, where the overall mission states a belief that “empathy allows us to see through the eyes of our neighbors, whether across the street or across the globe.”

Francis DiClemente

Francis DiClemente

Francis DiClemente is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who lives in Syracuse, New York. 

James Morehead

James Morehead

James Morehead is the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Dublin, California, host of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, and has published several collections of poetry including canvas,  portraits of red and gray, and The Plague Doctor.

Sharon Dolin

Sharon Dolin

Sharon Dolin is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Imperfect Present (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022)

Terry Godbey

Terry Godbey

Terry began writing poetry in earnest in 1999, inspired by her 5-year-old son’s fascination with trains.

Peter Maeck

Peter Maeck

Peter Maeck is a writer, teacher, and photographer.

Martha Cinader

Martha Cinader

Martha Cinader is an author and performance artist.

Kimberly Gibson-Tran

Kimberly Gibson-Tran

Kimberly Gibson-Tran is an emerging American writer who has published 37 poems and 4 essays—most of those within the last year.

Ruth Danon

Ruth Danon

Ruth Danon’s fourth book of poetry, Turn Up the Heat, was published by Nirala Series in 2023.

Mikey Cullen

Mikey Cullen

Mikey Cullen is a Dublin poet, teacher, actor, filmmaker, lyricist and spoken word artist.

Moya Roddy

Moya Roddy

Originally from Dublin, Moya Roddy now lives in a small cottage on an acre of land at the edge of Connemara. 

Dr Neal Hall

Dr Neal Hall

An ophthalmologist and graduate of Cornell and Harvard Universities, Neal Hall, MD became an internationally award-winning poet, composing poetry and performing readings worldwide.

Ballaleshwar Tela

Ballaleshwar Tela

Ballaleshwar Tela, hailing from Umarkhed in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, is an academic and mentor.

Rosalind Brenner

Rosalind Brenner

Rosalind Brenner is a poet, glass artist and painter. Her art is collected widely.

Belinda Sue Kiser

Belinda Sue Kiser

Belinda began writing poetry in the late 1990s after a diagnosis of MS in 1996 left her world crashing down around her. In the early years of her writing.