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…
ROBERTA FERRARIS Hidden and surrounded by the Argentera Massif, Gesso Valley was chosen as countryside resort by the House of Savoy who acquired the hunting rights from the Councils of Entracque and Valdieri villages in the middle of 19th century.…
ATTILIO IANNIELLO, LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE and SILVIA PIO (edited by) The Preacher and the Slave (1911, take-off on the hymn “Sweet Bye and Bye”, often sung by Salvation Army bands) Long-haired preachers come out every night, Try to tell you…
SILVIA PIO (edited by) From Uttering Her Name, by Gabriel Rosenstock, Salmon Poetry 2009 Preface: Who is Dar Óma to whom these poems are addressed? Historically, or mythologically, she is the daughter of the god Oghma who gave the gift…
