Muhammad Shanazar was born into a poverty stricken family in a village of Sub Division Gujarkhan District, Rawalpindi, Pakistan on 25th November, 1960. As a child he collected fodder and fire wood, grazed cattle and ploughed the farms. He lived…
ANDREA PACE I was but a teenager when I met Robert Johnson for the first time, the man who sold his soul to the devil in order to learn to play the guitar. I was not a cheerful teenager, I…
MÜESSER YENİAY When we look back at Turkish women’s poetry of the Ottoman period, we also read an historical process. In Ottoman times, as it is known, women were not in the social arena at all. They could not be…
SILVIA PIO An experimental vineyard, a blond bluesman from Alabama, a small church with a funny sort of architecture: what do they have in common? You’ll be surprised to know that they are all pieces of the same puzzle, an…
Gabor G. Gyukics (born in 1958) is a Hungarian-American poet, literary translator and author of five books of original poetry, four in Hungarian, one in English (Last Smile), and nine books of translations including A Transparent Lion, selected poetry of…
