Hilde Keteleer: The Belgian Novelist and Poet Born in 1955, Hilde Keteleer is a distinguished writer and poet, and an active member of the renowned Flemish PEN Club in Flanders—a branch of the International PEN organization. She is also a core member of its board of...

Thorns of Water and the Rust of Diamonds They are the wondrous ones—the loyal exiles, the brilliant creators, the anonymous poor, the idle dreamers, the cunning thieves, the distant strangers, the inert, the useless—yet somehow, the very inspiration for dreams of...

Sudan: A Struggle Marked by Hunger… and Miserable Alternatives Everything in Sudan has changed, yet there are no longer any unifying visions embracing the full spectrum of society. Genuine political models, developmental renaissance, or economic breakthroughs...

The Snowbird and the Fragrance of the Desert When my heart becomes a fountain of blessings, a city sculpted from soft crystal, glowing symphonies, candles, flowers, and a mass the size of rare suns and distant galaxies, I awaken like eternal lightning. I write her...

Karel Sergen: The Philosopher-Poet of Humanism Beyond Borders In a serene village near the Belgian-Dutch border, specifically in Turnhout, Karel Sergen was born in 1954. A philosopher-poet rooted in the rich Flemish literary tradition, Sergen inhabits a historic rural...

An article about the Cameroonian poet, playwright Blaise Kaptue Fotso Blaise Kaptue Fotso is a young Cameroonian poet living in cold exile, like hundreds of other Cameroonian activists. He completed his university education at the University of Yaoundé and writes...

An article about the Russian poet and writer Alexander Melnik Born in 1961 in Moldova during the Soviet era, the poet Alexandre Melnik pursued his studies at the prestigious Moscow Institute of Geodesy and Cartography. In the year 2000, he left his homeland and...