Italian

Four Short Stories about Growing Sad – Adrian Bravi

Adrian Bravi’s four short stories are instead teeming with a more homogeneous chorus of protagonists – gangs of children inhabiting poor neighborhoods in a small town in Argentina. The glue that holds together their esprit de corps is a childlike imaginative misreading of and sometimes contempt for the adult world, which leads them to exercise their power as a group by tormenting or further excluding marginalized people in their community.

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Poems by Francesca Farina

Francesca Farina is an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and culture professional. She has published a number of poetry works and a novel, Casa di mortin(www.bertonieditore.it). Literary awards or mentions include the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Eugenio Montale, Premio Tracce-Pablo Neruda, Premio Nazionale per il Sonetto Renato Fucini, and the Premio Scriveredonna.

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Poems by Alfredo Rienzi

Alfredo Rienzi (Venosa, 1959) lives in Turin since early childhood. He has published several volumes of poetry, from Contemplando Segni, winner of the X Montale Prize, in 7 poeti del Premio Montale  up to the recent Partenze e promesse. Presagi

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Dreams and Nightmares – On a razor’s edge: Editorial Note on Refugee Literature

Dreams and nightmares take turns in every sleep cycle. They even invade the hours awake. There shall no longer be a day without learning the shape of separation, without looking at broken pieces of heart, without longing for acceptance from foreign soils, skins and songs.The Antonym, sought out literary expressions—tales and artefacts built in that sleeplessness and plight.

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Poems by Brenda Porster

Brenda Porster writes both in English and Italian. Her poems appeared in numerous literary magazines, poetry anthologies and online literary sites in Italy and abroad, and have been translated into several languages.

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