Etiqueta: essay
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Martial Law Implemented in the Neighboring Country by C J Anderson-Wu
First, the tourists disappear from the shopping areas, their nasal-sounding language no longer heard. Second, the travelers are missing from the Airbnbs that once accommodated them, their cheerful laughter no longer lingering at night. Third, the soap operas that allowed us to cry with our beloved actors are no longer…
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A Review of Snigdha Agrawal’s “Fragments of Time (Memoirs)” by Barbara Leonhard
Fragments of Time: Memoirs (Notion Press, February 11, 2025) is an inspiring legacy of one person’s life of legends. In her memoir, Snigdha Agrawal weaves us into her art as though we are threads in the tapestry of her being. The “fragments” (memories) from her birth to her senior years…
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Distraction-less by Susana Cabaço
How easy it is to get distracted these days?! Even if your intentions are clear and elevated and your focus is sharp, there is always a chance of getting out of your inner alignment and individual path to wander in the quite often superficial and pointless fields of the contemporary…
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Letter from Istanbul By John RC Potter
Note: This essay was originally published by The Montreal Review. “Allahu akbar!” The repeated Arabic call to prayer issued by the nearby mosque (‘cami’ in Turkish, ‘masjid’ in Arabic) is the first sound I hear early each pre-dawn morning. The modern mecca of Istanbul has been known historically as Byzantium,…
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First Day of the Rest by Christina Chin & Michael Hough (Nun ProphetPress)Reviewed by Taofeek Ayeyemi
The beauty of Japanese poetry forms lies in both their strictness in form andflexibility in substance. There is renku, which split up to allowing individualhokku (which became haiku). Then haiku led to haiku sequence, haiga (which ishaiku scribbled on a photo or image), and haibun (haiku accompanying a prosepoetry). And…
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CATCH AS CATCH CAN by Robert Beveridge
Two boys, four or five years old,standing about six feet apart,are playing catch on a sunny lawnwith a large black-and-white cat. They are tossing the cat carefullyback and forth, staggering underits weight, but they catch itevery time. Its heavy body dangleslimp, relaxed and purring. Any kind of love, no matter…
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Leandro Feal, the Ninja Photographer
By KATHERINE PERZANT (https://nocountrymagazine.com) I I can hear the small stones falling because I am behind, they sound like the agitated tail of a rattlesnake… In blue jeans and a farmer’s shirt, the Cuban photographer Leandro Feal is climbing a staircase. The steps, though made of concrete, give way under…
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Dear Jacksonville by JENNY SANCHEZ & MARTHA LUISA HERNÁNDEZ CADENAS
I don’t know you, and I won’t ever get to know you, but you have piqued my absolute interest. I can only imagine your climate, even though I can visit the “Official Travel Website for Jacksonville FL.” My sweat is dripping as I write, and my imagination clings to rituals…
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Eternalness by Susana Cabaço
The moment you realize and accept your eternalness, you start to experience life from a totally different level. Your expanded self-perception takes you far beyond the limitations of physicality. The lens of timelessness not only relativizes different aspects of your earthly experience but also enables you to see many distorted…
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Laura Capote Mercadal: the “Wefts” of an “Intersectional Feminist Photographer”
by CARLA GLORIA COLOMÉ by Nocountrymagazine It was a Colas brand camera, white, disposable, and with a single roll of film the first device through which the photographer Laura Capote Mercadal (Havana, 1991) looked at the world with curiosity. It had been given to her mother as a gift by…
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The Biggest Power Outage Ever in Cuba by Jesús Adonis Martínez
There is this almost unanimous feeling that the electrical collapse that occurred in Cuba on October 17—which paralyzed the country in its entirety and plunged into darkness a population already exhausted by countless hardships—would be an extreme symptom of the multidimensional, endemic crisis that the island has been facing for…
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The ethereal panacea by Susana Cabaço
Silence is like an ethereal panacea that smoothly nurtures and heals your personal fields. It brings you closer to your core self, the infinite source of light and life within. In this powered-by-silence soul proximity, there’s self-replenishment, and in your self-fullness that which is blocking your innate luminance is naturally…
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Lord Acton by Luisa Zambrotta
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton, described as “the magistrate of history”, was born in Naples, Italy, on 10 January 1834.He was the grandson of the Neapolitan admiral and minister Sir John Acton, who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Naples under Ferdinand IV and was…
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The Empty Bed of Marilyn Monroe by Peter Magliocco
It doesn’t matter who you areWhen the lights go out& you find yourself nakedAt the end of creationBefore redundant life plods onIn the everyday banalityMarked by occasional weirdnessUnhinging your memoryHigh winds dislodge youFrom salvation’s peakThe Fates cast sorrows& play their oldies Pop tunesOn your brain’s left side(The one still weakly…
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Your light matters by Susana Cabaço
Sink inside you, into that place of silence beyond thoughts, where an ethereal, imperceptible presence always lies. Let yourself feel the comfort, the all-embracing, spiritual comfiness that calms body, mind, and heart, and be loved, cherished by a heavenly tenderness that is beyond any condition. Be one with that which…
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The Photographer Tempted by Death by Iván De La Nuez
By nocountrymagazine Boris Mikhailov was born in Kharkiv (Ukraine, 1938). Although his recognition was relatively late, he has won, among other awards, the Hasselblad Prize, considered the Nobel Prize for photography. Mikhailov has lived through Communism, the Second World War, the fall of the USSR, and life as an emigrant…
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