Anna Maria Tvpm, India
Introducing : Dr. Mary Annie A.V,(M.Sc., Ph.D) writes under the pen name Anna Maria (Tvpm) . She retired as Dy.Registrar from the University of Kerala.
She started writing at a very young age , winning a prize at The Shanker's International Writing competition ,for her poem"My Brother" at the age of five, later published in the Illustrated Weekly of India . An announcer, All India Radio, Trivandrum, her poems have been broadcast over the same .They have been published in the Mirror, e-zine Magazines like Muse India ( poems and Haikus ) Indian Ruminations, Nothing. No One. Nowhere., Thanal Online, Gulmohar, Destiny Poet's,U.K., The Camel Saloon, Acerbic, Inklinks, anthologies of repute like Taj Mahal Review,Musings a Mosaic, Roots and Wings, The Selected Anthology,Woman,Wit and Wonder, to name a few. As a poet, she has been featured by Niamh Clune, Melvina Germaine, Duanne Vorhees, Cleber Pacheco, Al Khemia Poetry, Fasihi Magazine and many others. Her poems have been translated to French and featured by Jes Mert . Of late, her short stories have been published in International anthologies : Ether Ore: Cocoon Stories, He,She and It: The grammar of Marriage. Two of her poems have been included in The Penguin Book of poems on Indian Cities edited by Bilal Moin, to be released on May 31st and earlier in What else is Rain, edited by Gopikrishna Kottoor.( 2024)
The Leaf Issue of Haiku have included her haiku in two issues recently .
Her collections include My Beads Unstrung (2006) and More Beads Unstrung( 2011) Rush-Origami Chapbook published by Jan Keogh (2013) . The fourth is in the anvil.
after the quarrel
her lingering kiss gentle
on my forehead
May 24th 2025
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