Poetry on Big Screen: 12 Movies with Poetic References (Part 2)
Even though often considered a dying art, poetry still has an important place in people’s lives and, by extension, in popular culture.
Literary Travelogue: An Interview With Jelena Vukicevic (Visibaba)
Photo by Milos Petrovic We open our upcoming series of literary interviews with our conversation with Jelena Vukicevic, a professor of literature and a former bookseller. Jelena holds a BA…
Rediscovering Freedom with Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Effia and Esi have never met. Their stories begin in the mid-18th century Ghana, when the British slave trade starts to flourish in the country. One of the two half-sisters…
The Difference Between Pride and Responsibility in Preserving a Culture
There is a particular kind of pride that comes easily to people.
Absolutely No Hibernating Yet
A silly autumn story about a badger who wasn't quite ready for winter. Branko Badger had a list. Actually, Branko had several lists, but the most important one was called…
The Leaf That Refused to Fall
A story about one very stubborn leaf Every autumn, the old maple tree dropped its leaves. It dropped the red ones. It dropped the orange ones. It dropped the yellow…
The Country I Inherited but Never Lived In
On Serbian roots, American soil, and the complicated geography of belonging.
Ghost Girl and the Other Inconveniences of Being Alive – Part II
Further Reports from a Life Still in Progress Read the first part of this mico-chapbook here. VI THE WOMAN I THOUGHT I'D BE BY NOW . . . 15. I…
Ghost Girl and the Other Inconveniences of Being Alive
A micro-chapbook I A Brief Report from the Scene of the Crime . . . 1. The General Inconvenience of Being Alive By Thursday morning, I had decided that life…
Which Haunted Woman Am I?
Every October, I begin thinking about which haunted woman I would be. This is not the sort of question most people ask themselves. Most people are probably thinking about costumes.…