The Dreaming Machine

The Naked Shell of Aloneness – Kazi Rafi

The Shadow of a Shadow – Nandini Sahu

NON-FICTION

A tribute to Carla Macoggi – An invitation to reading her novels, by Jessy Simonini

Of romantic love and its perils: The lyrics of the enigmatic Barbara Strozzi – Luciana Messina

Pioneer’s Portrait: How Voltaire Contributed to Comparative Literature, by Razu Alauddin

May 6, 2023

OUT OF BOUNDS

Chapter four from “La cena- Avanzi dell’ex Jugoslavia”, by Božidar Stanišić

English translation by Pina Piccolo, courtesy of the author, from "La cena - Avanzi dell'ex Jugoslavia" Italian translation by Alice...

A song of peace and other poems by Julio Monteiro Martins

May 6, 2023

Translated from Italian by Don Stang and Helen Wickes Cover art: Boris Yeghiazaryan "Crimea. Seashore in a fog" 2021, courtesy...

I am the storm rattling iron door handles (Part I)- Poems by Michael D. Amitin

May 3, 2023

Cover art: Anton Tarasiuk "Drooping dove of liberty" 2022, courtesy of Ukrainian painters' exhibit in Padua Storm Churches.. House of...

INTERVIEWS &REVIEWS

Interviews and reviews

Camilla Boemio interviews Malaysian artist Kim Ng

Interviews and reviews

Of Concentric Storytelling, Footballs and the Shifting World

THE DREAMING MACHINEN 11

Interviews and reviews

Beauty and Defiance: Ukrainian contemporary paintings in Padua- Show organizer Liudmila Vladova Olenovych in conversation with Camilla Boemio

May 4, 2023

English translation by Melina Piccolo. Camilla Boemio: The war in Ukraine, the hardships faced by the people there, the suffering...

Bear encounters in Italy: Jj4, anthropomorphized nature and the dialectics of generations – Post by Maurizio Vitale (a.k.a. Jack Daniel)

Blowing on the shadow of fire: Six poems by Davide Cortese (from Tenebrezza, 2023)

May 5, 2023

Human Bestiary Series – Five Poems by Pina Piccolo

Of romantic love and its perils: The lyrics of the enigmatic Barbara Strozzi – Luciana Messina

PHOENIX (Part II) – YIN Xiaoyuan

November 27, 2023

A flock of cardinals melted in the scarlet sky: Poems by Daryna Gladun

May 3, 2023

In memoriam – Swimming in the Tigris, Greenford: The Poetical Journey of Fawzi Karim, by Marius Kociejowski

The Naked Shell of Aloneness – Kazi Rafi

Pioneer’s Portrait: How Voltaire Contributed to Comparative Literature, by Razu Alauddin

Paradoxes of misfits and wanderers: Modhura Bandyopadhyay reviews Stalks of Lotus

May 3, 2023

Camilla Boemio interviews Malaysian artist Kim Ng

Out of bounds

Balloon – Gerald Fleming

by Dreaming MachineMay 2, 2023

Fiction

Origin – 1. The House, at night, by Predrag Finci

by Dreaming MachineMay 4, 2023

Non Fiction

My Lover, My Body – Gonca Özmen, trans. by Neil P. Doherty

by Dreaming MachineMay 1, 2023

Poetry

Blowing on the shadow of fire: Six poems by Davide Cortese (from Tenebrezza, 2023)

by Dreaming MachineMay 5, 2023

Interviews and reviews

Ascension: A conversation with Matthew Smith

by Dreaming MachineMay 2, 2023

Out of bounds

A song of peace and other poems by Julio Monteiro Martins

by Dreaming MachineMay 6, 2023

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Of Concentric Storytelling, Footballs and the Shifting World

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Non Fiction

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Poetry

Blowing on the shadow of fire: Six poems by Davide Cortese (from Tenebrezza, 2023)

May 5, 2023

Non Fiction

A tribute to Carla Macoggi – An invitation to reading her novels, by Jessy Simonini

Fiction

Football is Life – Mojaffor Hossein

Poetry

Testing the worth of poetic bombshells – Four poems by Abdul Karim Al-Ahmad

May 7, 2023

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Poetry

These darknesses that awaken us: Three poems for Ukraine – Lance Henson

Cover art: Igor Prokafev "Donetsk airport" 2013, courtesy of Ukrainian painters' exhibit in Padua 2 a.m. These darknesses that awaken ...

May 3, 2023

Photogallery of Hassan Vahedi’s Paintings; Introduction to “Eclairements (Luminanze)” Catalog – Claudio Strinati

Poetry

“The Ghosts of Sea Salt Corpses” Isa Borgeson

The ghosts of sea salt corpses wander barangai coloco do not stop to pick up strangers of barnacle flesh soaking ...

December 2, 2018

Let the Rivers Speak! – Lucia Cupertino and the Poetry of the Global Souths, by Pina Piccolo

Out of bounds

Spreading your senses wide open like a peacock tail – Fragments from Borea, by Simonetta Sambiase

Seeing beyond the open sea, you procrastinate a long unstable longitude passes by a crowded line colored mass ...

December 1, 2021

Interviews and reviews

Securing the future for the Sorbian languages – Interview with Dr. Hauke Bartels about the work of the Sorbian Institute, Bautzen/Germany

Sorbian Institute in Cottbus (Photo by Georg Schaaf) Who are the Sorbs? Sorbs is the name given to members of ...

May 8, 2020

Interviews and reviews

Of Art, Solidarity, Resistance across Boundaries: Pina Piccolo Interviews Chilean Artist and Writer Ximena Soza

Pina Piccolo: Please tell us about your background Ximena Soza: I am a Chilean born artist, poet, educator and researcher, ...

December 4, 2019

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May 2, 2023

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