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Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Jasmina Tacheva talks with author Petya Kokudeva Hello! Petya or Radost and what does “fist” have to do with your name? My name is Kokudeva – and “kokuda” in the Rhodope region means fist. My first name means stone or rock in Greek. On the other hand I was originally named Radost, but then my […]

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Jasmina Tacheva Talks with Artist Yana Dimitrova Hi Yana! How is everything going – did Sandy disrupt any of your plans? Luckily we have been safe and sound in my part of Brooklyn, only lots of scary winds… the “post” Sandy period I think has been much more difficult to cope with in the entire […]

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Simon Perchik Photo: rivieragalleryartist And the sun by a single stroke broken into rain and forgetfulness –you lift a child’s bat that still has heat to it, a ball overgrown and against this mangy glove stumbles headlong as further on

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Milena Kirova, Ph.D. Photo: “Bagryana and Slovenia” Translated from Bulgarian by Ralitsa Muharska Bulgarian literary history is a well developed scholarly area with traditions going back to the late 19th century. What it still lacks, though, is a comprehensive systematic History of women’s literature. Of course, one could easily claim that the work of women […]

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov