The dreaming machine

FICTION

“Sofía, qué soñaste?” – Vignette from Sonia Gutiérrez’s “Dreaming with Mariposas”

Dreaming with Aurora – Vignette from Sonia Gutiérrez’s Book Dreaming with Mariposas

A Fabled Footnote – A tale of schadenfreude and literary pleasure by Aritra Sanyal

No Time To Sleep: a theatre experience – Farah Ahamed

April 13, 2021

NON-FICTION

“The Rest is Wilderness”: Mario Benedetti’s Fractured Portrait of the Cold-War-Era U.S., by Clark Bouwman

The Creative Journey – On Art and Travel, by Glen Rogers

April 19, 2021

In Memoriam Mourid Barghouti – Essays by Ahmed Masoud and Angela Mainini

OUT OF BOUNDS

From The Antonym – Azrael’s Call – Hamiruddin Middya, trans. Rinita Roy

Pieces of shadow floating away – Poems by Lance Henson

In here the wind pushes against its memory The dark trees listening Where a psalm of witness hides.... Awakening in...

The times being what they are – Selected poems from Gentiana Minga’s trilingual collection

April 22, 2021

Selection from “Tempi che sono… (The times being what they are...) /Zeiten wie…/ Kohē që janë…”, Gentiana Minga's new trilingual collection...

Prologue in three voices: Introduction to SAL, by Paulo Chagas, Carlos Ramos and Paulo Ramos

April 15, 2021

Prologue in three voices I Confinements have these things - the violent extirpation of our individual and collective freedom fills...

INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS

Interviews and reviews

The Racial Justice Point of View – Camilla Boemio Interviews Artist Jebila Okongwu

April 6, 2021

Interviews and reviews

On the thread of hope- Sana Darghmouni reviews Abdellatif Laâbi’s latest poetry collection

April 22, 2021

THE DREAMING MACHINE N 8

Interviews and reviews

Spatial muses and multiple entanglements: Nsah Mala on his eco-poetry

Pina Piccolo: Would you, please, trace for our readers the evolution of your ‘ecological’ poetry over the years, from the...

ART IN THE TIME OF PANDEMIC – From Quarantine to Community

Prologue in three voices: Introduction to SAL, by Paulo Chagas, Carlos Ramos and Paulo Ramos

April 15, 2021

Perhaps, ask what a stone is for lizards: Eco-centric Poems by Nsah Mala

Between past and present – Photo gallery and poems by Nicoletta Lofoco

The present, either we see it from eternity … – Three poems by Julio Monteiro Martins, trans. by Don Stang and Helen Wickes

The Clowns, by Mario Benedetti – Translated and introduced by Clark Bouwman

The Lessons that Adults Can Learn from Grammar School Students about Gender Equality – by Paloma Duggan and Ximena Soza

“the have-nots” – Gia Marie Amella

April 21, 2021

Pathology – A poem by enderemiroğlu

The Racial Justice Point of View – Camilla Boemio Interviews Artist Jebila Okongwu

April 6, 2021

Poetry

or that is: when everything goes back to normal – José Eugenio Sanchez

by Dreaming Machine April 30, 2021

Interviews and reviews

Spatial muses and multiple entanglements: Nsah Mala on his eco-poetry

by Dreaming Machine April 29, 2021

Fiction

from The Antonym. Marco Polo Travels : 2020 – Amar Mitra, trans. Bishnupriya Chowdhuri

by Dreaming Machine April 19, 2021

Poetry

In memory where you dwell – Poems by Helen Wickes

by Dreaming Machine April 30, 2021

Poetry

To Give the World a Name – Six Unpublished Poems by Murray Silverstein

by Dreaming Machine April 29, 2021

Non fiction

FOR AN APPENDIX TO A CORONA, by Reginaldo Cerolini with Critical Afterword by Filippo Menozzi

by Dreaming Machine April 30, 2021

Featured articles - The dreaming machine n.8

Interviews and reviews

Matilde Sciarrino interviews Candelaria Romero: A storyteller who does theater

April 26, 2021

Interviews and reviews

ART IN THE TIME OF PANDEMIC – From Quarantine to Community

Fiction

A Fabled Footnote – A tale of schadenfreude and literary pleasure by Aritra Sanyal

Non fiction

FOR AN APPENDIX TO A CORONA, by Reginaldo Cerolini with Critical Afterword by Filippo Menozzi

Non Fiction

The Creative Journey – On Art and Travel, by Glen Rogers

April 19, 2021

Fiction

No Time To Sleep: a theatre experience – Farah Ahamed

April 13, 2021

Poetry

The present, either we see it from eternity … – Three poems by Julio Monteiro Martins, trans. by Don Stang and Helen Wickes

The Dreaming Machine

Writing and visual arts from the world.

Poetry

Hijo – Ximena Soza

Hijo, you have to understand that the blood you let out of your wrists, into the sink, into the floor, ...

April 29, 2018

Out of bounds

TO THE SOUTH OF THINGS – Pasqualino Bongiovanni

Poems translated by Helen Wickes and Donald Stang, based on Giuseppe Villella's original translation for the Canadian edition of To ...

November 28, 2017

Non Fiction

Dario Fo: Theatre’s Challenge to Power – Walter Valeri

Going above and beyond literary values (often expressed in hierarchies) which are the keys of access to culture as ...

May 1, 2019

Poetry

PROWLING MEMORY’S ROOMS: Poems by Helen Wickes

NARRATION He hollered She slapped He chose back of the hand She found the horse whip I visited ...

November 30, 2017

Interviews and reviews

AltoFest: Creating a Space of Shared Risk through Theatre – Reports on the Malta Experience

AFTERWORD Anna Gesualdi and Giovanni Trono Il s’agit de défaire l’espace, non moins que l’histoire, l’intrigue ou l’action. Gilles Deleuze ...

May 2, 2019

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Explorers of Consciousness – A glance at contemporary feminist poetry in India (Part I)

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