Dirty Old Town I found my love where the gaslight falls Dreamed a dream by the old canal Kissed my girl by the factory wall Dirty old town, dirty old town Clouds are drifting across the moon Cats are prowling…
Or, to be more precise, I am afraid of Muslims WAQAS KHWAJA I am afraid of Muslims I am afraid of Muslims Christians unnerve and alarm me Jews fill me with dread I fear Hindus I am terrified of Gautama’s followers…
«Jagdish Prakash is a natural poet. His poetry flows from the heart and weave images that express experienced reality.» Thus writes Neena Sood, in the Editor’s Note of A Tempest in Silence, Prakash’s poetry book in English published in 2015,…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE Siamo in Italia! It means We are in Italy!, and people here often say this to us when they cannot explain some bureaucratic tangle or incomprehensible administrative regulation. With a characteristic gesture that is half-shrug, half-surrender, they let…
There is fire in poetry RICHARD BERENGARTEN Still and on May this work move on, and on its winding way and these words hold well together and, in their time wherever they carry, together hold constant at all points on…
MICHAEL MCCLINTOCK from http://michaelmcclintock.homestead.com/index.html Tanka (短歌 “short poem”) is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature.
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS For all those who feel that they aren’t in control I would have liked to be the disciple of Icarus. It would have been beautiful to celebrate the wedding of Calixto…
HERBIE HANCOCK, WAYNE SHORTER THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARTISTS We find ourselves in turbulent and unpredictable times. From the horror at the Bataclan, to the upheaval in Syria and the senseless bloodshed in San Bernardino, we live in a time…
RANCO SCIANNAMEO (Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Filippo Trajetta was born in Venice on January 8, 1777. He was the son of the celebrated Bitonto-born opera composer Tommaso Traetta (Trajetta) and Elizabeth Sund, a Russian-Finn artist he met in…
Kabalevski, 24 Preludi per pianoforte OP 38 – pianoforte Maria Gabriella Bassi Digressione Music Kabalevski Prelude op. 38 n.1 Kabalevski Prelude op. 38 n.5 Kabalevski Prelude op. 38 n.8 Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky Kabalevsky was born in Saint Petersburg in 1904…
MICHAEL MCCLINTOCK from http://michaelmcclintock.homestead.com/index.html Tanka (短歌 “short poem”) is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature. Italiano
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) Become a River If you spend your entire life dealing with impostors and cheats, how can you be surprised when everyone recognizes you are a swindler? Anger threatens you most. Envy paralyzes you. You’re like dust…
«You are alone, with yourself, in yourself. You flow alone in something that sustains you. You are alone as a reaction to the force that sustains you in the flow of solitude.» «You who have ignited the light of super…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) THE END OF THE FABLES Once upon a time, there was a fox … starts the rooster to compose a fable But perceives that it cannot work because if the fox hears the fable he will…
A S.Rosalia (Terramadonna) For Falcone and Borsellino. Ddici la santa ca’ i Palermitani addivintaru comu i vavaluci dici ca n’sannu cchiù fari all’amuri e pi’ chistu i fimmini i’ fannu curnuti ca lu curaggiu c’addivintau muoddu comu li vertuli d’un…
