Public Republic

An interview by Yasen Vasilev and Natalia Nikolaeva with Virginia Zaharieva
Translation from Bulgarian: Asya Draganova

“Stories can teach, repair mistakes, enlighten the heart and chase away the dark, they can provide psychological shelter, and contribute to change and the healing of wounds.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The reason for our meeting with Virginia Zaharieva is her [...]

Petia Petkova’s interview with the photographer Pavel Badzhakov /Pavzo/
Translation by Maria Aladzhova

“I was born in the most beautiful city of Bulgaria – Plovdiv – 31 and a half years ago, in the month of the most horned sign, so of course all of my sentences start with the word “I”… My occupation has been [...]

An interview with the swedish writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri by Desislava Velichkova
You were in Bulgaria just a year ago. Tell me about Sofia. Tell me your own opinion about the city!
Unfortunately, I was in Sofia for too short a time to get to know it. Hopefully we will become friends next time.
What about your phone [...]

Yana Radilova’s interview with the photographer Art McLeod

My name is Art McLeod. I have been a nature photographer for many years. I grew up in Northern Ontario, Canada. My parents are wildlife photographers and have been ever since I was a child. We spent a lot of time in the wilderness and that had a [...]

An interview with Anna Sanfeliu by Desislava Velichkova
Anna Sanfeliu was born in 1977 in Barcelona, Spain. With 3 years she moved to Mexico with her family and stayed 16 years until she finished high school. During that period Anna had her first contact with photography and  took her first analogue course.
“We where few in [...]

Interview with Nancy Ross-Flanigan by Cathy Shap Nickola

Halfway through my teens, in the mid-1960s, my father abruptly announced he was moving the family from Oklahoma to a pin-dot of an island in the South Pacific. Strange Territory is a story about learning to feel at home in two alien places at once: the remote U.S. [...]

An interview with Laurent Goldstein by Desislava Velichkova
Laurent Goldstein was trained to be an architect, but then he became the designer and the art manager of several high fashion companies in Paris, London and Milan, before settling in India in order to launch a household linen label.
Along the Ganges relationships with people are different [...]

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 [...]

A short story about the memory of photography
Velina Vateva’s interview with the photographer Iness Rychlik

How does photography extend to the way you see the world?
I have always loved observing things around me, but photography has taught me to be more precise in the way I see everything and I now dedicate a lot of [...]

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 [...]

Interview with Elena Peteva by Yassen Vassilev

Elena Peteva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1978. She lives and works in the United States, where she moved in 1995. She studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy (1995-1997), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1999-2004), as well as at the private studios of Odd Nerdrum in [...]

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 [...]

Interview with Blaga Dimitrova’s Poetry by Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi

Farideh Hassanzadeh (Mostafavi), an Iranian poet, has translated poems by Blaga Dimitrova into Farsi. She wrote to Dimitrova and asked for an interview. The great poet was in her last days and could only send her books. Farideh decided to arrange an interview with the poetry of her [...]

Interview with Marilyn Kallet by Matt Urmy

Marilyn Kallet was born in Montgomery, Alabama, and grew up in New York. She is the author of 14 books, including Circe, After Hours, poetry from BkMk Press, and Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard, translations from Black Widow Press. In 2009, Black Widow will publish Packing Light: [...]

Interview with Artist Iliana Ivanova by Natalia Nikolaeva

After having presented a small virtual exhibition with paintings of the young artist Iliana Ivanova, I suggest that we try to see in my interview with her, her point of view about art and the meaning painting has in her life.

An interview with the young designer Gradinko Aladinkov by Natalia Nikolaeva
Hamburg is the city where I have lived in the past eight years. I am still in the process of discovering its interesting faces, surprising metamorphoses, hidden features and unique charm.

It is not a chance that Hamburg’s haunting northern beauty and its original architecture [...]

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”
Walt Whitman

My introduction to the art of Evgeny Dinev is an insight into the skill of the author to capture the awe and wisdom of the moment, the beauty and uniqueness of the small things; an insight into his ability [...]