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.
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…
Zarina Zarina was on the way to the shop where she worked; I was driving to my office; after much insistence, she stepped into my car…
Boxes He has taken three weeks off to travel in Europe. She couldn’t afford the trip. He didn’t ask her to come, either. He sends her…
1720 AD The seamen swing, in fatigued, fevered relish of the cradling in infancy, couched in their threadbare hammocks, the ship plunges into the reshaping trough of…
The Wind We built mountains that crumbled down, And I drowned in my ocean of tears. Love letters and old photographs, I’ve burnt them all ever since.…
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