The Guest Editor for Issue XVI July 2012 will be Colleen S Harris. Her brief biography follows as below.
Colleen S. Harris is a two-time Puschart nominee for her poetry, and the author of three books of poetry: The Kentucky Vein (Punkin House, 2011), These Terrible Sacraments (Bellowing Ark, 2010), and God in my Throat: The Lilith Poems (Bellowing Ark, 2009). Her fourth book of poems, Gonesongs, is forthcoming from Bellowing Ark Press in 2013. Colleen co-edited the collection Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching (McFarland, 2012) which boasts a foreword by Molly Peacock and contributions from multiple award-winning women poets, and Colleen is currently working on editing a collection of critical analyses of modern women poets who work with myth structures. Colleen's poetry has appeared in River Styx, The Louisville Review, Minnetonka Review, Wisconsin Review, and many others, and her work on libraries has appeared in Library Journal, Journal of Access Services, Writing and Publishing: The Librarian's Handbook (American Library Association, 2010), Library Management Tips That Work (American Library Association, 2011) and others. Colleen holds an MS in Library and Information Science and an MFA in Writing, and works as an Assistant Professor and Head of Access Services at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Lupton Library. She also teaches the occasional creative writing or women's studies course and pursues her Ed.D. in Learning and Leadership in her free time.  

"Bird song" by Namita Sethi

"My Renaissance Mother" by Ben Nardolilli

"Anger" by Umamaheswari Anandane

"Tea party" by Julie Heckman

"Lost landscape" by Joan McNerney

"Nothing to pawn" by Aftab Yusuf Shaikh        

"The Undelivered Pitch " by Robert Laughlin

"Quiescence" and "Lone Walk" by Jessica Bates

"Wandering soul" by Neelam Chandra

"My daughter, you come from Sanshui" by Chris Bays

"Fall morning in Providence" and "WHILE WONDERING HOW MUCH THE FAMILY HOUSE WILL FETCH" by John Grey

"At the gates of Borgha" by Priyanka Dey

"Fragmentation" by Linda Crate

"The Ant" by Rizvana Parveen

"Animal" and "Bath" by Jerrold Yam

"Beware" by Dr. Shikha Saxena

List of poets selected by Prof. Howie Good

Zohra Saed

Vesna Acevski

Jayanta Mahapatra

Benjameno Carlo Kraus

Mateja Matevski

Gopikrishnan Kottoor

Nathalie Handal

Rita Dahl

Kishwar Naheed

Nicollete M van der Walt

Sharmila Ray

Hamili Singh Soin

Santosh Alex

Terry Sanville

Hemant Divate

Paula D. Lietz

Azscara Zarathursa

The Enchanting Verses Literary Review is stepping into its fifth year of uninterrupted publications in 2012.The Enchanting Verses will be publishing a print anthology every January starting from the year 2012, containing selections from the materials(poems, articles, book reviews, translations and paintings) published in the preceding year. The anthology will be made available for sale in leading online stores and some traditional stores. 

 We are happy to announce Prof. Howie Good as the poetry editor of the "Best of The Enchanting Verses" whose profile is as follows. 
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York New Paltz, is the author of the full-length poetry collections Lovesick (Press Americana, 2009), Heart With a Dirty Windshield (BeWrite Books, 2010), and Everything Reminds Me of Me (Desperanto, 2011), as well as numerous print and digital poetry chapbooks, including most recently Love Dagger from Right Hand Pointing.  He has also been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and three times for the Best of the Net anthology. His poetry has appeared in The Catalonian Review, Loch Raven Review, Untitled Country Review, SN Review, Medulla Review, elimae and many other international literary magazines.


 

After a hard and toiling selection procedure we are finally out with the names of our selected poets for ISSUE-XIV which will be published in and around mid November.

The issue as announced earlier has been guest edited by Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar along with our editorial staff to bring out the final selections.

The featured poets for issue xiv will be Vesna Acevska, Zohra Saed and Kishwar Naheed.

The Selected poets for Issue-XIV of The Enchanting Verses are Wendy Mary Lister, Nicolette Van Der Walt, Michael Estrabook, Mihir Vatsa, Michael Kwaku Kesse Somuah, Peter Branson, Michael Lee Johnson, Carl Scharwath, Mihir Chitre, Sudeep Singh Rawat, Shreya Chatterjee, Mandira Ghosh, Mamta Agarwal, Haris Chand Adhikari, Vijaya Kandpal, Walter Keyombe, Dory Pamatmat Maganito,  Chaandreyi Mukherjee,  Benjameno Ĉarlo Kraŭs, Hans Albert Lewis and Krishna P. Chakravorty. 

The Enchanting Verses International is now The Enchanting Verses Literary Review.
We are also happy to announce the introduction of our Visual Poetry section and International Poetry Translation Project.

We are happy to start our visual arts section with a painting exhibition of Andrzej Filipowicz with the theme "Venice" and "Face" 
Follow the link below to see the Exhibition:1 of 13 paintings by the Polish painter:http://www.theenchantingverses.org/visual-poetry.html

In Vol 1 No. 1 of Translation project we are featuring Translations of Sahitya Akademi award winning poet Telugu K Shiva Reddy(translated by Swatee Sripada) and Italian Poet Rita Stanzione(translated by Ute Saine).We will also be adding Pangasinan translations by Santiago Villafania soon.
Follow the link to read the poems:
http://www.theenchantingverses.org/translation-project.html

The Enchanting Poet honour will be given to  renowned Indian poet Jayanta Mahapatra for his contributions in the arena of poetry in the past years.

The Enchanting Verses International is proud to have Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar as the Guest Editor for Issue-XIV . 
Her brief introduction has been provided at http://www.theenchantingverses.org/guest-editors.html

Renowned and award-winning Macedonian poetess, Vesna Acevska has been selected via our Macedonian collaboration with Stremez for this issue.

The Enchanting Verses International (ISSN-0974-3057) is looking for original poetry (rich in imagery and metaphor), articles/essays on poetry, poetry books reviews and translations (into English) for its upcoming ISSUE-XIV to be published in mid September 2011.

In this issue we will also be focussing upon research papers and articles within 500-1500 words upon poetry and poetry related genres. Send your papers at theenchantingverses@gmail.com by pasting it in the body of the email. Include your name, postal address and a short bio within 100 words focussing mainly upon your previous publication credits.

Please check submission guidelines for poetry at 
http://www.theenchantingverses​.org/poetry-guidelines.html

Please check submission guidelines for book reviews at 
http://www.theenchantingverses​.org/book-review-guidelines.ht​ml

If you have extensively researched on a particular subject/ life of a poet and want to publish it then please check the Research Series Guidelines at 
http://www.theenchantingverses​.org/research-series-guideline​s.html

Response time for acceptance/rejection is one or two months from the date of submission. Editors will not provide any explanation on rejected works.
Poetry Guidelines
www.theenchantingverses.org