Nomination for Pushcart Prize for Poetry 2012

My poem A Shayira of Sorts has been nominated by Camel Saloon/editor Russell Streur as one of the best six entries to his magazine for the second half of 2012. This is a great honour. He has also chosen my poems Africa, Hurt-spoken to Vincent A Shayira of Sorts as editor's pics. Butterfly and the Bee has chosen my book A Treatise on Poetry for Beginners as one of the best reads in Indian literature of 2012.