The Dreaming Machine

The dreaming machine – issue number 11

SPECIAL INSERT OF WRITINGS FOR UKRAINE

POETRY

The Bitter Bulbs of Trees Growing by the Roadsides of History – Three Poems by Iya Kiva

Like a Torn Necklace: Three Poems from the War in Ukraine – Oksana Stomina

Take Note of the Sun Shining Within Twilight – Four Poems by Natalia Beltchenko

What Was Heart Is Now a Scorched Branch – Three Poems by Elina Sventsytska

Glory to the Heroes! Poems by Volodymyr Tymchuk

A Mavka in Kharkiv – Inna Romenska

they bombed the fucking zoo -Michael D. Amitin

NON FICTION

THE AMAZONS OF THE APOCALYPSE, from”Ikonoklast – Oksana Šačko’: arte e rivoluzione” – Massimo Ceresa

INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS

The Excruciating Beauty of Ukrainian Bravery: Camilla Boemio Interviews Zarina Zabrisky on Her Photography Series

Reportage of War and Emotions, the Tour of Three Ukrainian Poets in Italy

From Euromaidan: Three Ukrainian poets to spoil Westsplaining fest in Italy – Zarina Zabrisky

Videos from worldwide readings in support of Ukrainian writers, September 7, 2022 – Zoom readings Italy

Exact Words for Disorientation – An interview with Iya Kiva by Alberto Fraccacreta

Works by Regular Contributors to the Dreaming Machine

POETRY

From AfroWomen Poetry – Three Poets from Tanzania: Langa Sarakikya, Gladness Mayenga, Miriam Lucas

Water: The longest Tunnel Where the Color Blue Is Born – Four Poems by SHANKAR LAHIRI

Message to Forough Farrokhzad and other poems – Samira Albouzedi

In Wartime – Carolyn Miller

Silent, watching the growth of nothingness – Three poems by Julio Monteiro Martins

THE WORD YOU SIT BESIDE – Five poems by Helen Wickes

LONG POEMS

Phoenix: Part I – Yin Xiaoyuan

The Shipwreck Saga – Lynne Knight

FICTION

BOW / BUK – Parimal Bhattacharya

A VERY DIFFERENT STORY (Part II) – Nandini Sahu

The Aunt, an Exhilarating Story by Francesca Gargallo

THE PROGENITOR – Zakir Talukder (transl. from Bengali By Masrufa Ayesha Nusrat)

Stalks of Lotus – Indrani Datta

Love in Africa and the Variety of its Declinations – Short-story Tasting from Disco Matanga by Alex Nderitu

NON FICTION

Menstruating in Fiction: The Autorial Gaze – Farah Ahamed

Aadya Shakti!, or Primal Energy -Lyla Freechild

THE TIME HAS COME -Gaius Tsaamo

INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS

The mushroom at the end of the world. camilla Boemio interviews Silia Ka Tung

Everything Moves and Everything Is about Relationships. Susan Aberg Interviews Painter Louise Victor

An Upside-Down Femme Fatale – Ankita Bose Reviews the Caged, by Ahana Biswas (Trans. Shamita Das Dasguta)

The art powership of friendship. Interview with Projek Rabak, by Camilla Boemio

OUT OF BOUNDS

THE MATERICIST MANIFESTO by AVANGUARDIE VERDI

Artwork by Mubeen Kishany – Contamination and Distancing

Materials from Worldwide Readings in Solidarity with Salman Rushdie – Bologna Event

Surrender to Our Explosive Democracy – Five Poems by Serena Piccoli from “gulp/gasp” (Moria Poetry 2022)

Me and French, or What I Did During the Pandemic (Moi et le français, ou Ce que j’ai fais pendant la pandémie) – Carolyn Miller

Becoming-animal as a Mirror – Ten Animals from Gabriele Galloni’s Bestiary