The Dreaming Machine

The dreaming machine – issue number 1

POETRY

 

ON THE WINGS OF LOVE – Poems by Young Poets from Uganda

WHAT DOES AND WHAT DOESN’T COME TO PASS – Jean Portante

HAIKU – Shokan Tadeshi Kondo

OF THE THINGS THAT HURT: Poetry from Kenya – Seise Bagbo and Kevin Mwachiro +

A WORLD WITHOUT A LIBRETTO: Poems by Julio Monteiro Martins 

PROWLING MEMORY’S ROOMS: Poems by Helen’s Wickes

LIGHT AT HALF MAST: POEMS FROM 15 HIPPOCRATES ST. – Thomas Ioannou

SYLLABUS NOTE – Shailja Patel

RECIPROCAL ARCHEOLOGIES – 6 Poems by David Gullette

THE POET IN PRISON: CRACKS IN THE SKIN – Ashraf Fayadh

POETRY FROM SOUTHAFRICA: Jim Pascual Agustin, Mario D’Offizi, Kyle Allen, Winslow Schalkwyk, Silke Heiss

IMAGINE THE HORSE CAN STRIDE ACROSS SEAS – Part I Poems by Anita Barrows

OF WARRIORS AND SWANS – Poems by Mapuche Poets Leonel Lienlaf and Juan Paulo Huirimilla

 

 

FICTION

THE POSITION – Julio Monteiro Martins

ADUA, excerpts – Igiaba Scego 

WORLDS IN 3 FLASHES – Short stories by Gerald J. Fleming 

THE PORCELAIN VASE – Lynne Knight

THE DAY I LEARNED I WAS NOT POOR – Ilka Oliva Corado

LATTENZUELA: 3 Short Stories by Lucia Cupertino

 

NON-FICTION

THE CHICAGO SURREALIST GROUP – Andrew Joron

LEANING AWAY FROM RACIAL EVAPORATIONS   – Candice Whitney

THE RACIAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE BLACK MEDITERRANEAN – Timothy Raeymaekers

KAHLIL GIBRAN AND BLAKE’S RECONCILIATION OF OPPOSITES- PART I – Sana Darghmouni 

APHASIA OF DOUBT: THE UNKNOWABLE REALITY – Camilla Boemio 

GOODBYE TO B. B. KING – Carolyn Miller

VOICE OF FREEDOM – TRAFFICKED WOMEN SPEAK

TWO MAPUCHE POETS – LEONEL LIENLAF AND JUAN PAULO HUIRIMILLA – Stuart Cooke(7)

 

INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS

REVIEW OF NONA FERNANDEZ’ NOVEL “CHILEAN ELECTRIC” – Maria Rossi 

POETRY OF RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE: A NEW ANTHOLOGY FROM 16 RIVERS PRESS  – Helen Wickes

A CLOUD, RAIN, MEMORY AND AN ACCENT – An Interview with Dunya Mikhail, by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis

A POSTPONEMENT OBSOLESCENCE: Miyoshi Barosh Interview Conducted by Camilla Boemio 

ON “ITALIANA” PHOTOGRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY BY GIULIO RIMONDI-Introduction by Christian Caujolle

NTERVIEW WITH ADEENA KARASICK – Aritra Sanyal, Kolkata, India 2017 

SHYLOCK SLIPS OUT OF HIS SKIN – Dramaturgical notes by Walter Valeri

PIO AND KOUDOUS ON A SCOOTER- Reflections on A Ciambra by Pina Piccolo

SHAILJA PATEL ON HOW THE EMPIRE TRAVELS BACK – Bani Amor interviews Shailja Patel

 

 

OUT OF BOUNDS

silviotrump – Serena Piccoli

FORTRESS EUROPE- SURVIVING AND DROWNING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN – Poems by Mohamed Malih and Pina Piccolo 

TO THE SOUTH OF THINGS – Pasqualino Bongiovanni 

TRAVELLERS – Poems by Aritra Sanyal

TO SHED OUR IMPOSSIBLE GRIEF – Carmelo Militano 

NINE INCONVENIENT LOVE POEMS – Walter Valeri 

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW and other poems – Zack Rogow

BUTTERFLIES OF THE NIGHT – 4 poems by Bartolomeo Bellanova

IN DEFENSE OF GOLDILOCKS – Jeanne Wagner

 

OUT OF BOUNDS POETRY