The Dreaming Machine

The dreaming machine – issue number 4

POETRY

 

The Poet Attends a Writing Workshop, or Summer in Spoleto – Carolyn Miller

A Mother Named Her Child Rumor – Four Prose Poems by Danielle Paffunda

THIS IS NOT A FEMINIST POEM – Wana Udobang (a.k.a. Wana Wana)

So, listen: it’s morning now and the sky’s as blue as it’ll ever get” 8 Poems by Mark Tredinnick

CELTIC NATURAL MANUSCRIPTS – Serena Piccoli

Three poems from the forthcoming book “A Son of the Stars” – Carmelo Militano

“Vermeer’s Jacket” and other painterly poems – Helen Wickes

UNBOUND – Hawa Chimbugwe

 

FICTION

 

FATE OF LIFE – Abeja Salome, selected for Short Time in Short Stories

THE ECLIPSE – Amanthi Harris

The Poet – Anna Fresu

STABAT MATER – Julio Monteiro Martins

LIFE IS NOT DECIDED – Blessing Dafieldhare and Nsiimire Angella, from Short Time in Short Stories

Excerpt from “Beyond the Leash” a novel by Rose Romano

No roses, thank you – Anna Fresu

 

NON FICTION

 

ABOUT BEING HERE – life-j

No Poetry After Lampedusa? Compassion, Hostility, Testimony and the European “Migration Crisis” – Filippo Menozzi

New Roles for the Mask in 20th Century Theater – Donato Sartori

The Secret Song of Water: From Coleridge to Darwish – Fady Joudah

Circumnavigating the Maritime Republics: A Journey in Times of Port Closures – Giovanni Luca Asmundo

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

Overcoming Sales Resistance: Erectile “Dysfunction” and the Fiendish Brilliance of TV Advertising – Clark Bouwman

 

INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS

 

Atelier Montez: Let the Arts Inhabit a Productively Shared Space – Interview with Marcella Magaletti

In Times of Micro-Aggressions: “9-1-1 What’s Your Emergency? The Verdict” by Jovelyn D. Richards – Reviewed by Marina Romani

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe – Joaneath Spicer interviewed by Reginaldo Cerolini

OPEN LETTER BY A GROUP OF BLACK ITALIAN WOMEN

Michel Faber interviewed by Mia Funk for the Creative Process Project

Ashraf Fayadh’s “Sira maradiyya” Peeks out from Behind Prison Bars – Sana Darghmouni

The Art of the Brush and the Way of the Needle – Works by Hassan Vahedi and Seyed Mojtaba Vahedi

LAN SAMANTHA CHANG INTERVIEWED BY MIA FUNK, for the Creative Process Project

Hawa Nanjobe Kimbugwe, Young Ugandan Poet and Author of PHASES Interviewed by Hamid Barole Abdu

“Sciame” (SWARM) A SPOKEN WORD SHOW ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN – edited by Serena Piccoli and Giorgia Monti

OUT OF BOUNDS

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

Four Poets from the Encyclopedic Poetry School – Part I

Writing in the Crack between Two Languages: Aritra Sanyal Interviews Murat Nemet-Nejat

… this is east, this is west, this is called an adjacent angle – Poems by Prabir Roy

Three Poems about Homesickness – Marina Romani

BLACK WOMAN: VARIATIONS – Paintings by Viviana Zorzato, story by Giorgia Ragana, review by Ilaria Zorzan

We inhbit these times like a pouting bird – Five poems by Pina Piccolo

Reality is like ‘the flower in the mirror and the moon in the water’ – Artist Hu Huiming Portrayed by Writer Franca Dumano

FROM THE RICKETY WINDOWS OF HISTORY – Mario Bellizzi

I paint what I dream, and I dream what I paint” – The oneiric canvases of Dafinë Vitija

 

 

 

 

 

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