Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava (Poetry)
Author: Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Publisher: River Paw Press
ISBN: 978-1-7366871-4-7
Language: English
Page Count: 108
Publication Date: March 11th 2023
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This is a book of love, pure and overwhelming as love should be. This is a book of spirit, strong and willing, as spirit should be. ~ Lyudmyla Khersonska (Людмила Херсонська), Author of “Vse svoi,” and “Tyl’naia-litsevaia,” reflections on Russian aggression in Ukraine.
A common spiritual child, a representative of the Indian and Ukrainian people, will bring us all closer to purification by a drop, a spark, and a metaphor…~ Ihor Pavliuk (Ігор Павлюк) People’s Poet of Ukraine, Winner of the British PEN Prize and Swiss Literary Prize 2021
These are poems meant to bridge the divide between one world and another, between a lover and those fighting on the front lines of Ukraine. Throughout these poems, this book implores us: “Let’s not close our eyes or look away!”~ Brian Turner, Author of “Here” and “Bullet.”
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis’ patriotic poems are her original interpretation of love poetry, which grows from nostalgic listening to the voices of Ukraine, attempting to go beyond the pathos and rhetorics of textbook ideas, expanding horizons with visions, overcoming fears and deep wounds with one word—LOVE.~ Marianna Cheletska (Маріанна Челецька) Literary Critic
An artist always asks questions. And they are much more important than answers. Especially when these questions are in letters with boundless love for Ukraine. With indescribable longing and hope. With faith and confidence in victory. Especially when it is talented! Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, the universe in letters. Travel through her universe. Enjoy her words. Look for answers. ~ Anatoliy Anatoliy (Анатолій Анатолій), Poet, Philologist, and Colonel, participating in the Russian-Ukrainian war
Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava” is among the most important books of American, Ukrainian, and Indian literary societies with a cultural mission.~ Volodymyr Tymchuk (Володимир Тимчук) (Poet, Translator, and Lieutenant Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine)
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Author
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is an Indian-American poet, writer, filmmaker, and author of six poetry collections. Her works have appeared in notable journals such as “World Literature Today,” “Columbia Journal,” “Tupelo Quarterly,” “Indian Literature,” “Vsesvit,” “Silk Routes Project” (IWP)at The University of Iowa, Stanford University’s “Life in Quarantine,” etc. Poems from her award-winning book Bare Soul and her poetry film “River of Songs” have been included in the “Nova Collection” and the “Polaris Collection” of the Lunar Codex time capsules going on the Moon with NASA’s Nova-C lander missions to Oceanus Procellarum and “NASA VIPER” rover mission to the Lunar South Pole in 2023. Her poems “The Tree” and “Coming Home” (Bare Soul) have been included in college and university curricula in India and in the UK.
Her latest collection of poems, “Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava,” River Paw Press (2023), dedicated to Ukraine and its defenders, has been translated into Ukrainian by poet and translator Volodomyr Tymchuk, a lieutenant colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Kalpna’s poetry has received praise from eminent writers, such as Nobel Prize in Literature nominee Dr. Wazir Agha, Vaptsarov Award, and Ordre des Arts et des Lettres recipient Amrita Pritam, and poet and Academy Award winning lyricist and filmmaker Gulzar. She has read at the International Literature Festival Berlin (ilb), Sahitya Akademi, India’s highest academy of letters, Poets & Writers, AWP Conferences, and other venues internationally. Her works have been translated into fifteen languages and published in anthologies worldwide. The most recent among them are 100 Great Indian Poems (Bloomsbury, India), Unseen (Skylark Publications, UK), Collateral Damage, Carrying the Branch Poets in Search of Peace (Glass Lyre Press, USA), The Kali Project (Indie Blu(e) Publishing), Paws Healing the Earth, Oxygen: Parables of the Pandemic, and Sunflowers: Ukrainian Poetry on War Resistance Hope and Peace (River Paw Press).
As a filmmaker, Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is known for writing and directing her debut feature, “Goodbye My Friend” (2011). She won the “Silver Award” for writing, directing, and producing “Girl With An Accent” (short) at SMTV Mumbai International Film Festival. “Girl With An Accent” Television Premiered on LA18 TV in California and Hawaii on May 26, 2015. Her environmental film “The Tree ” (2022), based on her work of poetry, has won several awards at international film festivals, including the “Best Experimental Short Film Award” at the North Dakota Environmental Rights Film Festival.
She has been nominated for a pushcart prize, and her awards and honors include the 2017 “Naji Naaman Literary Prize for Creativity,” the “Bihar Rajbhasha Award,” given by the government of Bihar, India, “Bihar Shri,” and the “Rajiv Gandhi Global Excellence Award.” A former lecturer of Political Science and the Editor-in-Chief of Life and Legends, Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is the Translation Editor of IHRAF WRITES, and an Advocacy Member of the United Nations Association of the USA. She holds a degree in Film Directing from the NYFA and works as an independent filmmaker in Hollywood. Her latest poetry collection Trespassing My Ancestral Lands is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Website: www.kalpnasinghchitnis.com
