Fuentes Winner Luisa Valenzuela nails mother-daughter dynamic. Award Winner Ursula K. Le Guin reveals benefits of preaching to the choir. Mahmoud Darwish explores states of siege. Julie Busic reminds us wars reverberate long after the shooting's stopped.
New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler visits Occupy Wall St. & survives the day. Portland chronicler Jennifer Robin travels Portland's neofeudal Public Transport, & survives the night. Melanie Alldritt looks at looking at looking at that girl's hair in an infinite loop. Portland tr. OR. Book Award Finalist Matthew Robinson writes a timelapse Western history.
From further afield we've cartoons from director & illustrator Liz Swados, & Lithuanian Holocaust scholar Migle Anusauskaite; Cristina Álvarez Lopez runs with Keith Jarrett; Croatian writer Josip Razum shows a man, his wife, his family & a painting; Danish Birgit Munch describes peculiar disownments; Vénus Khoury-Ghata, tr. by Marilyn Hacker, reveals a secret prehistory of words. Oz poet Les Murray offers precise perceptions & Swiss author Christoph Keller recalls Murray's kindness; Croatian Armin Harambasic shows all of life, waiting at a train station.
Lidia Yuknavitch hatches an escape from Group, Susan Daitch guards the night, Rick Moody names all things legends omit. Mo Daviau nails Norman Mailer; Oscar winner Frederic Raphael nails a tale told by Petronius.
Croatian graphic artist Mirolsav Nemeth takes a gleeful graphic journey to Rome. Japanese artist Midori Oki's art installation dives beneath the skin; Croatian Monica Herceg & Estonian Triin Paja relate souls to forests; Lance Olsen shows a digressive street encounter between Bowie & a neighborhood character; Croatian essayist Dubravka Oraic Tolic shows how the world changed even before Baader Meinhof.
PNW writers Poe Ballantine & Kurt Eisenlohr go their sardonic ways while Mark Sargent describes being anywhere with Gregory Corso. Poets near & far: Coleman Stevenson, Leanne Grabel, Armin Tolentino, Brenda Taulbee, David Biespiel; Greek poets Dinos Siotis, Thanos Gogos, Phoebe Giannisi, Petros Skythiotis, poets fr. other climes, Robert Walser, Miroslav Kirin, Tomica Bajsic, Nina Wieda, Andrei Sen-Senkov, & Marge Piercy. Prose fr. Peter Fogtdal, & graphics fr. Tania Cardoso (Rio/Rotterdam) complete Gobshite 2023.
