Essays – Fall/Winter 2004


To Be the Roots: Introduction to Latvian Feature. By J.C. Todd

The Butterfly’s Apology byMāris Salējs

Do I or don’t I. . . By EdvīnsRaups

Poetry By Knuts Skujenieks

A Defense of Poetic Witness. ByAliki Barnstone

How Eva Victoria Perera Learned To Flywith Chagall By Aliki Barnstone




Previous Issues

The Imaginative Life and the Social Responsibilityof Writers By Alison Croggon

Scriptorium By RosalindBrackenbury

Arbiter of NeitherComfort nor Style: My Mother and Shoes By Joyce Wilson

Interrogating the Heart By MTC Cronin

Time to Transplant: In Memory of NijoleMiliauskaite By Laima Sruoginis

A Question ofResponsibility By Claudia K. Grinnell

Fire on the Lake: Live fromDruskininkai By regular columnist J.C. Todd

Poets in Marseille By the writer and journalist, Rosalind Brackenbury.

What Use Is Poetry in the Contemporary World?By MTC Cronin.

Potluck By regular columnist J.C. Todd

“Messengers:” By regularcolumnist J.C.Todd.

Notes on My Arthritic HeartBy Liz Hall-Downs.

Introduction to Queensland Poetry By Liz Hall-Downs.

Fit of Passion: Public Performance of thePoetry of Gender By Liz Hall-Downs (with Kim Downs).

Two Essays on Poetics and the Erotic By AlisonCroggon.

The W.B.Yeats InternationalSummer School By DonaldLevering.

MyChickens Byregular columnist Joyce Wilson.

“The Nation Sings:” By Laima Sruoginis.

“more modestly I look on lithuanian poetry:”
By J.C.Todd.

Commentary By Kornelijus Platelis, SigitasGeda, Laurynas Katkus, Giedre Kazlauskaite.

The Canadian Online Lit Scene
By Canadian MichaelBryson.

Mastering the Master:Appropriations of Crisis Conversion in the Poems of 1862 By Aliki Barnstone.


Universal Net-Meetings andPrivate Poetics: an Excursus into the Future of Cyber-Culture. By ErminiaPassannanti.