Kavita poetry magazine

Kavita ( _bn. কবিতা), also spelled "Kobita", is a flagship Bengali poetry magazine that played a vital role since 1930s for introducing modernism into Bengali poetry. It was edited and published by poet Buddhadeva Bose.

History

The first literary magazine published by poet Buddhadeva Bose was "Pragati".Fact|date=February 2008 He was then living in Dhaka. It was short lived and the last issue was published in 1929. Four years after migrating from Dhaka to Calcutta in 1931, Buddhadeva decided to publish a literary magazine exclusively for poetry. He named it "Kavita". He was then living in 'Golam Mohammad Mansion' in Calcutta city. The first issue of the "Kavita" was published from there in the month of October 1935. For the first two years, Kavita was co-edited by Buddhadeva Bose and Premendra Mitra while poet Samar Sen worked as the assistant editor. It is notable that "Kavita" was a poetry magazine styled after the "Poetry" published by Harriet Monroe from Chicago. While discussing Bengali poetry, Edward Thomson referred to the first issue of Kavita in the Times Literary Supplement of 1st February 1936.Fact|date=February 2008

Buddhadeva Bose lived at 202 Rasbihari Avenue, Calcutta for a long time since 1937. This house was named "Kavita Bhavan" since it was home to "Kavita" for a long time. "Kavita" continued for long twenty-five years. Its last issue was broguth out in March, 1961. ["Amader Kavita Bhavan", Buddhadeva Bose, 1974, Calcutta.]

Contrubutors of "Kavita"

* Buddhadeva Bose
* Jibanananda Das
* Amiyo Chakrabory
* Samar Sen
* Kamakshiprasad Chattopadhya
* Ajit Dutta
* Rabindranath Tagore
* Kazi Nazrul Islam
* Sudhindranath Dutta

International number, 1960

The 100th issue of the "Kavita was published in 1960 as an internaitonal edition. It contained as many as 69 poems in translaiton that included Bengali poems into English and foreign language poems into Bengali. Buddhadeva informed that his intention was to present a "Meeting ground of nations'.

Bi-lingual edition of "Kavita", 1963

Buddhadeva Bose published a bi-lingual edition of the Kavita in 1953.

"Kavita" collection

Selected poems and articles published in the "Kavita" have been collected in a three volume anthology.

References

ee also

* Buddhadeva Bose
* Shanibarer Chithi
* Kallol

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