Goodbye, Baffo! From France, poet Jessy Simonini reflects on his grandfather’s death due to Covid-19 in Italy
My grandfather just died, alone, in the intensive care unit of the Bologna University Hospital, in Italy. He was ...
“Diasporic Literatures: Where Do They Belong?” Excerpt from Part I of “Changing the Literary Map of Africa” (2019) by Alex Nderitu
Diasporic Literatures: Where Do They Belong? Graphic: afridiaspora.com ‘Africa is our centre of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother ...
Love, For a Limited Time Only – by Mia Funk
The first time I saw her she was in a window. Under her left breast was taped a cardboard sign: ...
Giacomo Cuttone’s Art in the Times of Coronavirus
Giovanbattista Vico claims that history is but a cycle of occurrences and recurrences. In short, in history there are some ...
While the Spring Light Moves Around the Room- Selected Poems from an Italian Lockdown by Rina Xhihani
Today I said twenty-three words Today I said twenty-three words Some people would say “a good twenty-three words” others ...
Designing Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Interview with Ruth E. Carter by Anna Lombardi, curated by Cristina Lombardi-Diop
As I watched, mesmerised, the costumes of Black Panther on the huge screen of a movie theatre in Chicago, I realised that ...
“The world is turning to clay”, selected poems from Ali Cobby Eckermann’s collection “Inside My Mother” (Giramondo 2015)
Australantis there’s a whole ocean filled with sand between what was and what will be where fish grows ...
Granville Redmond: Resilient Art at the Intersection of Differently Abled Senses, by Luciana Messina
People still wonder if the California plein-air impressionist painter, Granville Redmond (1871-1935), was so talented because he was deaf and ...
Letter to My Fellow Housekeepers from My Countryside Quarantine – by Meng Yu
Letter to my fellow housekeepers Sisters, whom I’ll soon see again, As of right now, some of you ...
“These Are Times of Unmaskings”- A Nurse Speaks Out from the Epicenter of the Covid -19 Pandemic in Italy
This interview was made on April 4, 2020 and portions of it will be broadcast by the WBAI radio station ...
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Memorial Reading Marathon for Julio Monteiro Martins, Dec. 27, zoom live
December 24, 2024 marks ten years since the premature passing of Brazilian/Italian writer Julio Monteiro Martins, important cultural figure from...
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