Art on Concrete ! – Mario Loprete
Mario Loprete:
Painting for me is my first love. An important, pure love. Creating a painting, starting from the spasmodic research of a concept with...
Time to Rise – Cli-Fi and the Responsibility of New Visions – By Jim...
Cli-Fi cuts too close to home. Climate Fiction isn’t exactly speculative fiction or science fiction. It is the right here, right now. Our destructiveness...
Translation as Transhumance – By Mireille Gansel (Translated from the French by Ros Schwartz)...
(In this beautiful memoir of a life lived in and through translation, Mireille Gansel defines the process of bringing words from one language to...
My Journey as an Artist & Art Instructor – Cynthia Yatchman
I was lucky enough to grow up in a household that supported and practiced the arts. I went to elementary school at a time when...
The Anti-Poetry of Salvador Villanueva
By Gustavo Rivera
There is a sliver of truth when Josefina Rivera de Álvarez, in her book Literatura Puertorriquena: Su proceso en el tiempo (Puerto Rican...
Celebrating Gandhi – Haiku Posters By Masood Hussain & Gabriel Rosenstock
Kashmiri artist Masood Hussain teamed up with bilingual poet and haiku master Gabriel Rosenstock to create 6 haiku posters that celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gandhi, the apostle of civil disobedience.
Two Ancient Sumerian Elegies in English – By Tikva Hecht
Author's Note:
These elegies were originally written in Sumerian and are dated circa 1700 BC, making them among the oldest known written texts in the...
Concrete Art – By Mario Loprete
I live in Catanzaro, a small Calabrian city in the south of Italy. It’s a beautiful place to live in.
If geographically it's a great...
The Rise of the Cli-Fi Literary Genre – By Danny Bloom
As the 20th century began to morph into the 21st century in the late 1990s, the global landscape of cultural production started to teem...
Viktor Pelevin, a Reminder of What Was, and What May Come Again in Russia
By Jim Curtis
Viktor Pelevin (b. 1962) is arguably the key figure for anyone who wants to understand post-Stalinist, post-Soviet Russian culture, particularly with regard...