Francesca Castaño lives and works in Barcelona. She is a Spaniard who writes in English. Her Master’s thesis was published by the University of Barcelona. Her poems have appeared in Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts: Selected Poems by Francesca Castaño, Shot Glass Journal, The Foliate Oak Literary Journal Annual Print Edition, Decades Review, Whitehot Magazine Volume 4, among others. She was awarded the 2016 Blackwater Poetry Competition Prize.
On the Ridge She swims, the water quivers to wakefulness the surface yielding into rainbow-ripples, encircling her like subjects around a queen. She walks, tall tawny locking grasses…
Good Man I suffer whenever I meet a good man because his sadness is limitless. Whenever we meet, I hug a good man and try to ascertain…
Ruby Gupta Ruby Gupta’s underwear was still wet on the day of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. While collecting the laundry, hung to dry on the terrace, Ruby…
Pancham: The Urban Timbre (Part 7) Oddly, Pancham, a music composer, was hesitant to create music for Bengali films after the failure of Salil Sen’s Rajkumari in 1970, despite having renowned actors like…
Dolphin We listen to the crow cawing. I and Jhunu. There are no other birds, only a crow on the branch of the berry tree. We…
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