The dreaming machine

The Final Poltergeist of Pompeii – Will Alexander

April 20, 2021

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

IN CONVERSATION WITH LANGUAGE-SPACE: A “Bio-bibliography” – YVES BERGERET

April 26, 2021

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

OUT OF BOUNDS

PLEA TO FREE THE SLAVES ADDRESSED TO PHARAOH – Mario Bellizzi, with author’s note

PLEA TO FREE THE SLAVES ADDRESSED TO PHARAOH B-ISMI-LLĀHI R-RAḤMĀNI R-RAḤĪMI Your Excellency, Pharaoh Cheops (or KHUFU) I am one...

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...

The Gateway to Europe: The Story of an Invisible Tragedy Taking Place on Our Borders, by Vincenzo Bagnoli

Late modernity and postmodernity, between Adorno and Baudrillard, have accustomed us to think that we can see everything. The electronic media illuminate the...

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Interviews and reviews

BEYOND LIGHT- Photo gallery from en nico’s photo exhibition, with review by Walter Valeri

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

Fiction

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

Introduction by Clark Bouwman One of Benedetti’s gifts is his ability to portray the world of children sensitively, realistically, and...

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

IN CONVERSATION WITH LANGUAGE-SPACE: A “Bio-bibliography” – YVES BERGERET

April 26, 2021

Every Shoe Tells its Own Story – Gonca Özmen, trans. by Neil P. Doherty

May 1, 2021

PLEA TO FREE THE SLAVES ADDRESSED TO PHARAOH – Mario Bellizzi, with author’s note

Translation and the problems of meaning – Zineb Saaid

April 26, 2021

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

In memory where you dwell – Poems by Helen Wickes

In Memoriam Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Three poems: Pity the Nation, Cries of Animals Dying, The History of the Airplane

February 23, 2021

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

May 2, 2021

Interviews and reviews

ART IN THE TIME OF PANDEMIC – From Quarantine to Community

by Dreaming Machine April 29, 2021

Poetry

Excerpts from Alessandro Brusa’s poetry collection “L’amore dei lupi” (Perrone 2021)

by Dreaming Machine April 30, 2021

Non fiction

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

by Dreaming Machine April 30, 2021

Interviews and reviews

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

by Dreaming Machine April 6, 2021

Non fiction

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

by Dreaming Machine April 30, 2021

Interviews and reviews

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

by Dreaming Machine April 28, 2021

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Poetry

In memory where you dwell – Poems by Helen Wickes

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

Fiction

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

Non fiction

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

Intersections

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

April 15, 2021

Poetry

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

Fiction

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

Non Fiction

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

The Dreaming Machine

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Interviews and reviews

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

Woe-is-me Turbulent years, each in their own way. Years made up of varying paths, various directions to choose from. ...

April 28, 2021

Non Fiction

Remembering Fawzi Karim – The Script of Storms: Reflections on Fawzi Karim, by Michael Hersch

I place my forehead on the plate glass-front And peered in at the darkness... And there was nothing there ...

November 29, 2019

Poetry

“Where a smile is the error of a wrinkle” 5 poems from “The South of Things” Part III – Pasqualino Bongiovanni

TO THE SOUTH OF THINGS In silence we return to where the sea, in winter, has the dirty colors ...

December 2, 2018

Intersections

silviotrump – Serena Piccoli

silviotrump (#toadeena) Europe |cradle of civilization| could not but teach you how to. Plato, Aristotle, Sappho, Dante and Silvio ...

November 30, 2017

Fiction

HARLEQUIN AND THE SCENT OF MONEY- by Walter Valeri, English translation by Marco Remo Zanelli

Playwright’s Note: For years, U.S. universities have used theatre as a medium for the learning of a second ...

April 29, 2018

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