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Sonja de Vries is a documentary filmmaker, writer, activist and a mother. Born in Kentucky but raised by her family in Amsterdam, she grew up hearing family stories of resistance to Nazi Occupation. Sonja also spent time growing up on a farm, where she lives today with her son Devlin and partner Beth. [...]

Neil Chethik is speaker, author and expert specializing in men’s lives and family issues. He is the author of two acclaimed books: VoiceMale: What Husbands Really Think About Their Marriages, Their Wives, Sex, Housework and Commitment (Simon & Schuster 2006), and FatherLoss: How Sons of All Ages Come To Terms With the Deaths [...]

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s interview with Joel DiGirolamo

Joel DiGirolamo has over 30 years of staff and management experience in Fortune 500 companies. He has a BSEE, MBA, and an MS Psychology degree. The combination of his diverse work experience and education enable him to relate to individuals at all levels and positions of any organization in any [...]

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s interview with writer Nancy Jensen

Nancy Jensen is a graduate of the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Northwest Review, Other Voices, Under the Sun, ACM: Another Chicago Magazine, and The Louisville Review.
She is presently at work on [...]

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s interview with poet Sherry Chandler

Sherry Chandler is the author of two poetry books, Dance the Black-Eyed Girl (Finishing Line) and My Will and Testament Is on the Desk (FootHills Publishing). Her work has been nominated for the Kentucky Literary Award in poetry, and she has won several local prizes, including the Betty Gabehart [...]

Angel Angelov

Photo: rent-a-moose
The stretching, the yawning, the numerous coffee houses, even the forceful movement of his stiff joints did not chase away the dream that came upon him. The insurmountable draw towards the kingdom of Morpheus was persistently dragging him in an undesirable direction and only the blinking screen of the monitor was holding him [...]

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s interview with poet Barbara Crooker

Barbara Crooker is the author of more than 625 poems published in over 1925 anthologies, books, and magazines. She is the recipient of numerous literary awards, such as the 2007 Pen and Brush Poetry Prize.
A twenty-six time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she was nominated for the 1997 [...]

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s interview with Heather Derr-Smith

Heather Derr-Smith was born in Dallas, Texas but spent most of her childhood in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She earned her MFA in Poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1998. Her first book, “Each End of the World” was published by Main Street Rag Press in 2005. Her second book, “The [...]

Maggie Creshkoff
Pat Valdata is a poet and uses her words as a poet would, deftly weaving the story of a Hungarian immigrant family in the early decades of 19th century America.

Their triumphs and tragedies over three generations are mirrored by events on the world stage; and their personal loves and losses are echoed in [...]

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We, the editors of the international multimedia journal Public Republic, would like to congratulate our Editor-in-chief on her Birthday.
Dear Natalie,
May every day increase
the happiness in your life
the positive energy in your work
the optimism that lights up your relationships
the tenacity that pulls us forward
and the love that touches everything you do.
We love and admire you [...]

Katia Delavequia

We follow the Christian celebration. In the beginning of December the front of the houses are adorned with flashing little lights. The pine trees are decorated with colored balls.

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

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The eighty-five year old widower was crossing the park with his cane, working to maintain a slow, steady speed. He knew his friends were waiting for him – a thinning group of retired grandfathers, spotted with age like leopards, wearing wrinkled berets and hand-me-down clothes from their children.

Jim Embry is a photographer who lives and works in Lexington, Kentucky, where he recently held his latest exhibition. He is well-known for his many years of social activism fighting for racial equality, along with his leadership on issues of environmental sustainability.
Who is Jim Embry?

Star dust, congealed in this current form. I represent the millions [...]

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Photo: *PaysImaginaire*
Why did this big
Black bird
With a red beak
Have her feathery chest
Pressed on the glass
Of the fourth floor
As though
She were showing off a medal?