Dashboard Horus: A Bird's Eye View of the Universe

Sonjaye Maurya is an eminent artist with international recognition. He is a self taught artist, who has made a strong niche in the world of art in a short span. He is bestowed with numerous awards like, Kala Ratn; Swami Vivekanand Excellence Award, and an Honorary Doctorate, to name a few. He is also a World Peace & Brotherhood; and World Humanity Ambassador. His works have a mysterious quality, a magical touch that makes them stand apart from the works of other contemporary artists. Everything that he paint s has a deep meaning and message in it., may it be Buddha, or even if he is painting fishes or a landscape. His works are, many  times, a transformation from realistic to abstract, and vice versa. Untitled Desert My Village From Top © 2023 Sonjaye Maurya

Jan Steckel’s book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press, 2018) won Rainbow Awards for LGBT Poetry and Best Bisexual Book. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press, 2011) won a Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press, 2006) also won awards. Voyage All night long I’d dreamed of old books, secret rooms, packing trunks. When I got home I drank snakebite chicory, remembered the fifteenth century, when I was a clerk in a ship’s hold. The big blond sailor with the Scandinavian name, I thought we’d burn in hell for what we did but didn’t care. Only ale and grog to drink,  the occasional rain, the cask-water too brackish for anything but washing. Cries of gulls long gone, turtle soup, dry biscuit, a bit of shoe leather called salted beef. Writing was a skill that only I and the captain had.  My Viking friend could break me with one hand. I liked it that way. Time eno...