The Dreaming Machine

The dreaming machine – issue number 2

POETRY

On the Wings of Young Bengali Poets – part I, edited by Aritra Sanyal

TABLETS II, Dunya Mikhail

MELVILLIAN, ONWARD and other poems, Helen Wickes

Poems from prison – A4, by Ashraf Fayadh – with photo gallery of his art work

Introducing the AfroWomen Poetry Project – First stop Ghana! – Antonella Sinopoli

Hijo – Ximena Soza

FIVE POEMS FROM THE SOUTH OF THINGS – A SUD DELLE COSE –Part II, by Pasqualino Bongiovanni

Poem in time of war, 2006 Part II – Anita Barrows

I guarded my theft like a relic –Four poems from “Noura” by Asmae Dachan

“My thoughts are hawks in search of earth’s splendours” – Unpublished poems by Stuart Cooke

Five Poems from “TUTTO QUESTO” (All of This), Maria Luisa Vezzali

From “The Quake and the Gust”, poems by Nuria Ruiz de Vinaspre

“Don’t exile me from your mist” – Five poems by Ferruccio Benzoni

 

FICTION

Excerpt from “L’opera degli ulivi”, by Santo Gioffrè

HARLEQUIN AND THE SCENT OF MONEY – by Walter Valeri, English translation by Marco Remo Zanelli

From “The Shroud Maker”, Ahmed Masoud

Excerpts from the novel “La maligredi”, by Gioacchino Criaco

Lina and her family, by Marina Sorina

 

NON FICTION

METICCIATO: On the problematic nature of a word –Camilla Hawthorne and Pina Piccolo

Zero: Circle without a Centre – The generation of poets writing in Bengali after 2000, by Aritra Sanyal

KAHLIL GIBRAN AND BLAKE’S RECONCILIATION OF OPPOSITES – PART II, Sana Darghmouni

Introduction to “The Poetry of Ferruccio Benzoni”, by Taylor Corse and Enrico Minardi

JEAN TROUNSTINE – CHANGING LIFES THROUGH LITERATURE AND DRAMA, by Walter Valeri

 

 

INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS

The Hidden Harmony –Oppido Lucano: Photo gallery and Poem by Giorgio Di Maio

Excerpts from Wuyi Jacobs’ Interview with Camilla Hawthorne on Racism and Xenophobia in Italy

Underneath the Soles – visual and writing traveling project on displacement – Ximena Soza

Bologna in 38 shots and poems – Paloma Criado

Mia Funk Interviews Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya for The Creative Process Project

Mia Funk Interviews Junot Diaz, for The Creative Process Project

The South as Destiny” poet Gezim Hajdari interviewed by Matilde Sciarrino

 

OUT OF BOUNDS

The Future of String Theory, Carolyn Miller

… and You are in a hammock – Three poems by Maged Zaher

MIGRATIONS, Pasquale Verdicchio

That “home” is a catwalk between abysses – Three poems and paintings by Fawzi Karim

“What the Water Knows” in memoriam of Sam Hamill

TERMINI TV – Narrating and Rapping – A Train Station As An Intersectional Public Space

“Checkpoint”, “Cactus Flower” and “Roirama” – Three poems by Julio Monteiro Martins

The Weeping Man, Paris and other prose poems, Gerald Fleming

… and now for something completely different – Poems and musings by Zack Rogow

Translation exercise N.1: excerpts from “The Siren” by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Ode to sadness, Ghayath Almadhoun

From SOUTH DAKOTA SUITE, Séamas Carraher

Excerpts from”Ogni luogo è Taksim” (Every place is Taksim), Murat Cinar & Deniz Yucel

 

OUT OF BOUNDS POETRY