Author Description

Lalitamba is a journal of contemporary devotional literature. The journal was inspired by a pilgrimage through India. The name means Divine Mother. Lalitamba 2016 features Joel Allegretti, Guy R. Beining, Lisa Bellamy, Richard Alan Bunch, Michael Cadmus, Richard Campbell, Ruth Ann Dandrea, Gloria Dyc, Laura Eklund, Allen Forrest, Kathy French, Larry E. Graham, R.F. Grant, Kathleen Gunton, Jim Hart, Kelly Jadon, Thomas Penn Johnson, Sameer Joshi, Marilyn Joy, Sarah Katharina Kay, Eleanor Kedney, Ray Keifetz, Robert Kostuck, Simm Landres, W.F. Lantry, Lyn Lifshin, John McCarthy, Elizabeth Moller, B.Z. Niditch, Ayaz Daryl Nielsen, Ed O'Casey, Haya Pomrenze, Elisavietta Ritchie, Matt Schumacher, David Swallow, Jr., Linda Swanberg, Z.G. Tomaszewski, William Varner, Brian Phillip Whalen...the way her clothes billowed in streams, her necklaces, her hair, her long ribbons flowing in sacred streams, as if the vortex of her harmony spun everything around: this earth, our dreams... -W.F. Lantry