The Hitchhiker I was driving down Beverly Boulevard in a gold 1971 Volvo that looked like a spaceship. My dad had purchased the car for me a year before from a disillusioned actress in the San Fernando Valley. When we arrived at her home to pick up the car, the actress let us in and began sobbing. She said she was moving toContinue reading “The Hitchhiker. Non-fiction by Tracey Keilly”
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Words Ignoring Wars. A review of books by Gordon Phinn
Words Ignoring Wars Books Referenced: Agent of Change, Huda Mukbil (McGill/Queens 2023)Tabula Rasa, John McFee (Farrar, Straus &Giroux 2023)Paper Trails, Roy MacGregor (Random House Canada 2023)Notes on a Writer’s Life, David Adams Richards (Pottersfield Press 2023)The Last News Vendor, Michael Mirolla (Quattro Books 2019)Maze, Hugh Thomas (Invisible Publishing 2019)Jangle Straw, Hugh Thomas (Turret House 2023)CellSea,Continue reading “Words Ignoring Wars. A review of books by Gordon Phinn”
From Africa with Love. A review by Dr Geraldine Sinyuy
From Africa with Love: Voices from a Creative Continent curated and edited by Kelly Kaur in conjunction with Wole Adedoyin, Director, IHRAF African Secretariat. A Publication of the International Human Rights Arts Festival (IHRAF), 2023. From Africa with Love: Voices from a Creative Continent is a collective call for revival, a revolution churned through allContinue reading “From Africa with Love. A review by Dr Geraldine Sinyuy”
Sushant Thapa Reviews Binod Dawadi and Sydnie Beaupre’s The Power of Words
Critical Beauty of Words: The Power of Words I am thrilled to have read “The Power of Words,” a poetry collection written by Binod Dawadi from Nepal and Sydnie Beaupre from Canada who doubles as editor. This collaboration of two poetic souls has created indelible marks on the sands of modern literature. But it canContinue reading “Sushant Thapa Reviews Binod Dawadi and Sydnie Beaupre’s The Power of Words”
Love and Bilingualism as Survival Strategies. Diana Manole Reviews Clara Burghelea’s Praise the Unburied
Love and Bilingualism as Survival Strategies Clara Burghelea, Praise the Unburied (Dublin: Chaffinch Press. 2021) Praise the Unburied, Clara Burghelea’s second poetry collection, starts with the motto, “Every poem is the story of itself” (Tracy K. Smith), foreshadowing a metaliterary discourse. In a postmodern gesture, the poet indeed allows each poem to testify about itself,Continue reading “Love and Bilingualism as Survival Strategies. Diana Manole Reviews Clara Burghelea’s Praise the Unburied”
3 poems by Mykyta Ryzhykh
The sky is moving The ant’s gaze falls into the suggestion of life Failure of life after adulthood Older children are moving into the abyss The abyss from which it all began The iron tooth of a smile haunts the blind The ash sketch of a heart beats like a real one Who fell intoContinue reading “3 poems by Mykyta Ryzhykh”
3 poems by Yuan Hongri. Translated by Yuanbing Zhang
Never-withering Light I can’t say the mystery of the gods yet, the devil is coveting the diamond of heaven. There is a golden kingdom whose light is like wine inside the ancient earth. The smiles of the gods are beside you, as if they are the rounds of invisible sun and moon. And your soulContinue reading “3 poems by Yuan Hongri. Translated by Yuanbing Zhang”
in this corner of the universe there is a constellation set aside for you. A poem by Charlotte Amelia Poe
in this corner of the universe there is a constellation set aside for you If you buy enough gold acrylic paint, and paint stars on your ceiling against the dark, then maybe, just maybe, the world won’t end. And if it ends anyway, debris beating at the plasterboard as the ceiling groans and the starsContinue reading “in this corner of the universe there is a constellation set aside for you. A poem by Charlotte Amelia Poe”
4 poems by Gordon Phinn
For Charles Simic Yes, you were here, for what Now seems an unquantifyable idyll In that picnic of horrors Holding forth in the headlines. Only now do I see that trail of Breadcrumbs, artfully arranged To tempt the idle into exploring The maze of your curiosity. Arriving at a semblance of center One sees theContinue reading “4 poems by Gordon Phinn”
3 poems by WCLJ Poet in Residence, Mansour Noorbakhsh
To the extent of all your surroundings __Dedicated to all working children. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” __Frederick Douglass Maybe you have been sitting for hours behind trees or in the shade of rocks and hills waiting for the train to come. Maybe you are boredContinue reading “3 poems by WCLJ Poet in Residence, Mansour Noorbakhsh”
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