ROBERTA FERRARIS The Pesio Valley is one of the most woody valleys of the Western Alps due to its proximity to the sea and to abundant rainfalls. For centuries, the local forest resources have been wisely administered by the Charterhouse…
(SILVIA PIO edited by) Poems: POEM FOR MITKO Michael Rothenberg SHELL BEACH Michael Rothenberg CATHOLIC SCHOOL RETABLOS Terri Carrion WHY I STARTED BREEDING BUTTERFLIES Terri Carrion An interview with Michael Rothenberg and Terry Carrión, founders of the global poetry movement…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE There is a fire burning merrily in my bedroom fireplace, a fire of fagus logs. I ordered the wood this morning and it was delivered this evening–and there is quite a story about THAT. The story has a…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) [ What’s your idea about my days that I usually spend without you? about my words that used rapidly evaporate and about my heavy pain about the knots that have sedimented inside my thorax like dried…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) Never Alone Always this caressing wind this earth whispering to our feet this boundless desire of being grass tree heart *** Earth Poems and butterflies fly with wings over any border FRANCISCO ALARCÓN (Mexico, 1954-2016) Translation…
Messages in a bottle are passages, quoted from writers who lived in the past, conveying a message that can still be appreciated in the present. Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869, Kovno, Lithuania – May 14, 1940, Toronto, Canada) was one…
Woman am I Spirit am I I am the infinite within myself I have no beginning I have no end Oh yes I am. From the website Women In Tune: WIT is an opportunity to be part of the experience…
Untitled I lean Against an imaginary wall Breathless Some of me is still running A distant lull Of fast train on humming tracks My fragile secrets Reach up and hide the stars. I light my imaginary Cigarette It makes this…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) AWAITING HIM In the morning I wake up like a gazelle enjoying myself in the mountainside, waiting for you. At midday, buried among flowers, I start to draw your name in the womb of the river’s…
Women, graffiti and wall art in Mimmo Pucciarelli’s photographs http://www.atelierdecreationlibertaire.com/croix-rousse-alternative/
SILVIA PIO and LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE (edited by) Anima Keltia on “Vita Dominae – Medieval and Renaissance Music”. Vita Dominae is the debut album by the Belgian artist Mélanie Bruniaux, aka Anima Keltia, released on the Maxy Sound label in…
SILVIA PIO (edited by) From The Emperor’s way to Constantinople (August 1990) The last Byzantine emperor was crowned at Mystras in Greece. He then travelled south by land to the great port of Monemvássia. From there he embarked for the…
JOKHA AL HARTHI Nassir al-Abd does not understand anymore; he used to conceptualize life as something stable. He used to touch the stability of life, but he knew, in a mysterious way, that it is not as stable as it…
ROBERTA FERRARIS The Occitan variant spoken in the Èllero valley indicates as «Quié (Kyé)» the 1st singular person subjective pronoun «I». Only in 1969, the linguist Corrado Grassi included this dialect spoken in some villages of the Monregalese valleys in…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) DISCOMFORTS Of course I feel miserable, now and then. Sick as a dog. Of course, now and then, everything hurts, or even worse- it is one or the other. Of course I should take some of…
