Lysenko, Enemy of Soviet Science, and a Dissertation Left on a Windowsill In memory of my mother, Maya Borisovna Shternberg Back in the seventies, people emigrating from the Soviet Union were not allowed to take with them certain things, such as books published before 1917 (the year of the Bolshevik revolution), manuscripts, typescripts, works ofContinue reading “Lysenko, Enemy of Soviet Science, and a Dissertation Left on a Windowsill. Memoir by Nina Kossman”
Author Archives: darcie friesen hossack
Essay on Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire. by Olga Stein
Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire: The Soviet Jew in Full Colour Mikhail Iossel’s collection of memoir and lyrical pieces, Love Like Water, Love Like Fire, bears witness to a particular kind of experience — that of living and identifying as a Jew in the Soviet Union (now former Soviet Union) during theContinue reading “Essay on Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire. by Olga Stein”
Literary Spotlight. Gail Anderson Dargatz in conversation with Sue Burge
For this issue I am delighted to meet Canadian writer Gail Anderson-Dargatz. I’m not sure if there is a genre she hasn’t written in! Gail, you are an extremely successful and experienced writer, working across most genres: poetry, short stories, novels and YA fiction. Within these genres you tackle everything from thrillers to historical dramas,Continue reading “Literary Spotlight. Gail Anderson Dargatz in conversation with Sue Burge”
Sweating and Reading. an essay of books by Gordon Phinn
Books Referenced: Into the Soul of the World, Brad Wetzler (Hachette Books 2023)The Man Who Hacked the World, Alex Cody Foster (Turner Publishing 2022)Still Pictures, Janet Malcolm (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2023)Ghosts of the Orphanage, Christine Keneally (Public Affairs 2023)We Were Once a Family, Roxanna Asgarian (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2023)Just Once, No More, CharlesContinue reading “Sweating and Reading. an essay of books by Gordon Phinn”
Lori D. Roadhouse reviews Debra Black’s “love, lust, existence and other ephemeral things”
I read these poems first in order, then backwards, and also randomly. Each poem exists on its own merit, as a breath in time. The breaths come faster, or more slowly, depending on the subject matter, and depending on the order in which they are read. It’s almost a meditation, a rocking chair, representing theContinue reading “Lori D. Roadhouse reviews Debra Black’s “love, lust, existence and other ephemeral things””
From Spagin (Lecce, Italy). a review by Marcello Buttazzo. translated from the Italian by Bruce Hunter
From Spagin (Lecce, Italy) by Marcello Buttazzo. Translated from the Italian by Bruce Hunter. Bruce Hunter is a great Canadian poet and writer. In 2022 his book A Life in Poetry (based on his Two O’clock Creek- poems new and selected) was published in Italy. Bruce was deafened as a child and suffered from lowContinue reading “From Spagin (Lecce, Italy). a review by Marcello Buttazzo. translated from the Italian by Bruce Hunter”
three poems by Fabrice B. Poussin
Trail conversations “How you doin’? she asks not waiting for the conformist answer too busy taking a sip of her holy water wrapped in plastic and early morning dew. “Good mornin’!” they claim in bright accents from North to South and other climes boasting those ivory smiles as if tomorrow would never come. “Have aContinue reading “three poems by Fabrice B. Poussin”
Plant a tree. a poem by Geraldine Sinyuy
Plant a tree Walk today with those who will walk with you, Should they leave you half the way, Plant a tree for them and mark the day, So that if ever the road leads them back to you again, you’ll have at least a shelter to offer if not a fruit. Walk on andContinue reading “Plant a tree. a poem by Geraldine Sinyuy”
4 poems by Mansour Noorbakhsh
Sometimes ponder why the sky looks blue You force me to read your books. As you warn me from reading others. I’m wondering have you ever looked at the sky, at the bushes on your way, or at the sand and soil. Look at everything again. Sometimes stand under the rain till it washes yourContinue reading “4 poems by Mansour Noorbakhsh”
Violining. a poem by Catherine Zickgraf
Violining Gusts blow wild sky off its clothes line, and fog soaks into my coat. I lift the gate latch, enter under a canopy of greens and into the courtyard. I stay this January in Carmen de la Victoria, the stone and oak guest house of the Universidad de Granada. Halfway up the river valley,Continue reading “Violining. a poem by Catherine Zickgraf”
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