his is an anthology of contemporary, original poems and poems in translation from Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, Marathi, Persian, French, Spanish, Latin and polyglot experiments in Japanese and Turkish, all are present and celebrating human verbal creativity, in all its modes, as is the theme, this year, of The Circle. All those belonging to this global poetry circle have each been on both a personal and collective journey of self-discovery, sometimes in words and sometimes in the long silences in-between, but always with authentic self-expression.