DEBIPRASAD MUKHERJEE Life is always like a painting—you draw, you erase … Historically, people used painting as an abstract expression of moments lived. Paintings on walls across the globe continue to be the portraiture of people’s social structures, the mirrors which reflect their…
MELYSSA G. SPROTT Winterlust Oh, how I miss the frigid kiss of winter upon my skin! The cold air, that wind in my hair, a chilling frost gets in. To hide from yet hold, that bitter cold such a…
From The Loneliness of the Sasquatch, transcreated by Amanda Bell from the Irish of Gabriel Rosenstock. Alba Publishing, 2018 appearing out of mist as from a dream strange creatures the sasquatch rubs her eyes will they flee on seeing me…
CLAUDIO SOTTOCORNOLA The 60s The 60s rolled by on a train the little American boy with his nose turned up in the air night fell mythological of stars in the sky … yeah-yeah songs… The “Knowledge” Encyclopedia taught Geography and…
«The song Glass is about relationships and romance, focusing on the moment we realize that we are trying to please the others by imitating them. We see the person we love behind a cold, glass wall and we pretend there…
GENEVIÈVE GUETEMME (edited by) French poet and writer Laurine Rousselet, has been injecting in her writing – from the very start – an inexhaustible energy to give to the words, sounds, rhythms and her unique voice a momentum leading to an…
ABHAY K. Come Come as monsoon rains to a parched land of summer or softly as spring with new leaves and bird song come roaring as a volcano exuding plumes of gas and lava or shaking with great force as…
ROGAN WOLF Can liberal democracy survive our tumultuous, bewildering, frightening, dangerous times? As things stand, it seems not to be coping at all. It is surely in great danger of allowing and even encouraging the irresponsible and anti-social worst to…
ANTHONY MELLORS Relict Land Undead wych elms rise from cliffs pathless & unstable as if at this hour above the talus old gods wrestled their own myths at risk from fungal pathogens an ancient rowan rives through skeletal yew wild…
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Preamble Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard and…
EMILY DICKINSON In the Italian page Gabriella Mongardi analyzes Emily Dickinson’s poems focusing on the element ‘water’. Here are the poems quoted in her article. 107 ‘Twas such a little – little boat That toddled down the bay! ‘Twas such…
SARA RUSSELL The Golden Chain (self-published by the author, Venice, 1970; bilingual English-Italian edition: Florence: Paideia, 1998, reprinted in 2001) is a selection of poems written between 1963 and 1969. I helped my father prepare the first bilingual edition for publication…
SILVIA PIO Air Made of air our memories are smuggled from oblivion, a habit of ours. Our thoughts are mysteries of wind wafting with our wandering; a breath of incense, a puff of sky intangible, impossible to quantify. The vital…
SERKAN ENGIN Bringing a poem into being requires a three-part supporting structure composed of poet-poem-reader. The poet-subject perceives the objective reality outside of himself as being a part of it and then he transforms it by using words, which are…
