A Too Powerful Word

Tom Phillips (1964) is a British poet, playwright, writer, freelance journalist and the editor of the Balkan Poetry Today. His   plays have been produced in Bristol and Bath, and range from community musical Concorde Stories for BBC Radio Bristol to one-man show I went to Albania at Bristol Old Vic. He has published four poetry books. He lives and works in Bulgaria.    European Union At first it might have been coincidence that we heard so many car horns shifting through the Doppler effect, or checked in at hotels where girls in Sunday best held  hands and sang interminable folk tunes. Only, the following day, new coulpes emerged from scaffolded church with candles lit, and family groups assembled in a park for photographs where filigree blossom coincidentally obscured the Stalinist backdrop. Thirty, forty weddings eased from municipal ceremonies to pose beneath late-flowering cherry trees, anticipated pleasures, and advice they'd hardly need, being of an age when...

Carl Scharwath is an American photographer, short story writer and poet. His passion is running and he is very active in enjoying his hobby as well in winning many races. He lives and works in Florida, US. Night Cemetery Vision   Moonlight bathes headstones In elongated shadows, Casting a cynical glow.   Perfectly aligned mercenaries Long ago legions, Covenants to life’s carnage.   Brittle cement markers Forgotten names etched and Adorned in plastic flowers.   Resurrected in moments, Dream state paralysis- Are you remembered tonight? NATALITY ​ ​Every baby is born to greatness there is a stainless beauty installed in a clean heart love and tolerance wired into the soul The Latin Vulgate an icon of purpose imbues and cicerones the steady hand of a mother and father Lost in luminescent daylight and memories of thermal water to what end humanity awaits its glorious creation              ...

Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto  (1992) (@ChinuaEzenwa) is from Owerri-Nkworji in Nkwerre, Imo state, Nigeria and grew up between Germany and Nigeria. He has won the Association Of Nigerian Author’s Literary Award for Mazariyya Ana Teen Poetry Prize, 2009; Speak to the Heart Inc. Poetry Competition, 2016. He became a runner-up in Etisalat Prize for Literature, Flash fiction, 2014. He won the Castello di Duino Poesia Prize for an unpublished poem, 2018 which took him to Italy. He was the recipient of New Hampshire Institute of Art’s 2018 Writing Award, and also the recipient of New Hampshire Institute of Art’s 2018 scholarship to  MFA Program. In 2019, he was the winner of Sevhage/Angus Poetry Prize and second runner-up in 5th Singapore Poetry Contest. Some of his works have appeared in Lunaris Review, AFREADA, Poet Lore, Rush Magazine, Frontier, Palette, Malahat review, Southword Magazine, Vallum, Knicknackery, Bakwa Magazine, Salamander, Strange Horizons, One, Ake Review, Crannòg magazi...

Alexander Miroshnichenko (1964) is an Ukrainian painter. He is the member of The Union of Artists of Ukraine. He has participated at three international exhibitions.   

  Aleksandar Alimpić (1966) is a Serbian painter. He has graduated from the Academy of the Serbian Orthodox Church for Painting. He lives and works in Pančevo.  

Pankhuri Sinha (1975) is an Indian poet, writer and translator. She has published several books:  ‘Koi-bhi-Din’ and ‘Kissa-e-Kohinoor’, two books, both collections of literary stories published in 2005 and 2008, by Gyanpith, a reputed name in Hindi literary publishing;  Prison Talkies, a collection of poems, published by Xlibris,  Indiana, July 2013;  ‘Dear Suzannah’, second collection of poems published by Xlibris, Indiana, 2014;  Collection of poems in Hindi, ‘Raktim Sandhiyaan’, published by Sahitya Bhandar, and launched in Delhi world book fair 2015;  Second Collection of Hindi poems, ‘Bahas Paar ki Lambi Dhoop’ published by Bodhi Prakashan in 2017;  Third Collection of Hindi Poems ‘Pratyancha’, published by Bodhi Prakashan, in Nov 2018.  Awards:  Bihar Sahitya Sammelan Shatabdi Samman, by the Bihar Unit of Sahitya Academy, India, March 2019; h onoured by the International Jan Lekhak Sangh, Nepal, June 2018;  Pandulipi Puraskar, by B...