Public Republic

By Evelina Lambreva Jecker Photo: pensiero All her girlfriends had a pet. All were benevolently spending fortunes on them. Mrs. Friedrich was the doting parent of a ten-year old Angora cat. The cat had regular appointments with a hairdresser and a cat manicurist, who would cut her claws with extreme care, while a special dentist, […]

Violeta Boncheva Photo: PUPIL_BCN The Gypsy and the horse Are hauling the kernel of life uphill, hoofs pounding on the precipitous rocks, As the Gypsy is cursing at just about anything that flitters on the face of this earth, and the whip is cracking. Not spared is even his mother, Who flashes her teeth, all […]

Milena Ivanova-Andreeva Photo: Dia™ Artificial clouds to cool Earth (a headline in Standart newspaper, July 1, 2006) Vienna’s biggest inconvenience is ashtrays: with every cigarette snuffed out in The Kiss, you increasingly give up on Klimt (at the expense of smoking).

Petar Tchouhov Photo: movimente I want you to do a little striptease for me no, I don’t mean you tie up your hair

Theo Edmonds Photo: Frenkieb In the modern times in which we live, we rarely hear of someone seeing an angel. We sometimes hear talk of angels. We have all certainly seen the great art throughout the ages that depict angels as glorious beings with wings and halos. In the Bible there are accounts of angels […]

Matt Urmy Photo: seanmcgrath Eyelids peel apart The body turns over Consciousness limps toward focus

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 […]

Julie Farkas Photo: le_don Fenner sat on a bar stool and watched Wenz stroke the cue stick through his fingers several times, then become very still. With a flick of his wrist, the cue ball raced for the eleven. When it collided at an angle, the eleven coasted towards the side pocket. But the cue […]

Theo Edmonds Photo: Bob.Fornal I love you. I love you too baby… I’ve loved you since that very first hour I met you That hour of angels Those inspirational, popular angels.

Matt Urmy Photo: Shereen M Yesterday morning I ate cold grits images of my son lying in a hospital bed leg covered in bandages and burns

Photo: toniblay My first memory is of falling down. One minute, I was running across my grandmother’s driveway, staring down at my new shoes. With their red uppers, sunshine yellow tongue, and bright blue laces, they were perfection in primary colors. That moment, I was the wind and my feet were a rainbow. The next […]

Hello! In this first “survey”, I would like to present you with several thought-provoking questions that I hope will help to make our virtual acquaintance.

Dear friends, We are now “officially” starting our Public Republic project in English! Encouraged by the exciting success of the journal in Bulgaria (www.public-republic.com) and by the enthusiasm of our US-editor Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, we prepared the site in a similarly broad manner as the Bulgarian edition. We believe, we will soon have many contributions, a […]