‘A Dark and Coming Thing’: Badmind in Caribbean Literature By Vladimir Lucien It was Lorna Goodison’s latest book that first made me aware of our canonical Caribbean writers, in older…
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Aleppo Between Past and Present : Saleh Razzouk 1. After 2013: After 2013 the city of Aleppo entered a a mine field. Today, no one can move or go around the city without complications….
From Margo Berdeshevsky Living in the Shadows of Winter and all the etceteras… It is long. It is cold. It is complicated. It’s Russian roulette, I nod. It can…
the Republic of Užupis exists independently in the heart of Vilnius…a bohemian port with its own mermaid and angel…home to artists and vagrants, gentry, moonshine, ravens, one buzzard, and pigeons,…
LETTER FROM PARIS, autumn 2014 from Margo Berdeshevsky It’s been awhile. But my eyes are open. As always, I want to join in calling in the light. In believing…
by Cynthia Abdallah Growing up in Kenya, in a literary tradition that stresses orality and community in poetic pieces, I came to be particularly attuned to rhythmic sounds and counterpoints….
We’ve had a hard winter and a long cold spring in Scotland. StAnza, the festival I organise was an unlikely success, given that instead of the spring flowers and March…
by Kerry Shawn Keys the Republic of Užupis exists independently in the heart of Vilnius…a bohemian port with its own mermaid and angel…home to artists and vagrants, gentry, moonshine, ravens,…
from Margo Berdeshevsky IT WAS MAY DAY IN PARIS…or WAS IT ONLY THE IMAGE? “Une petit(e) Piece Dieu Nous Benisse.” A coin—a little coin, God Bless us. I noticed that…
Eastern/Central Europe and Excursions elsewhere Summer, 2011 Summers in Lithuania are usually quite lovely. The cities are not overwhelmed with zealous tourists taking photos…