Editorial
Warm greetings to all of you, our critical readers and charitable critics. More than once I’ve been asked (as I’m sure all of you have as well): Where can I read your poetry? Your prose? Who are your most interesting writers? What is Lithuanian literature like? What is most important to the writers in your country?
Antanas Šimkus
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Memory still erases and tears,
Erases and tears.
You would want it all to end more quickly,
The calendar to break off around Christmas time,
So in your inner manger, it would be all warm and…
Cities are just cities. This one too. On the road to Bethlehem.
Ramunė Brundzaitė
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I watch them
and write, my paper placed
on the AA book
as I wait for my meeting –
will my separation crack
with the ice of the lakes
and will I too feel
I am about to begin
Evil Fears Openness: Remembering The Chronicle of the Catholic Church of Lithuania on its Fifty-Year Anniversary
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By Laima Vincė
We typed the first issue of The Chronicle onto thin onion skin paper,” recalls Sister Gerarda, a softspoken diminutive nun who worked closely with Tamkevičius in his inner circle for years. “Then,” she giggled, covering her mouth with the palm of her hand, “we folded the thin paper into a small triangle and sewed it into the intimate triangle of a lady’s panties.
Eglė Frank
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The cops helped her bury the dog, cursing the whole time. “These women, always think of something. Who would’ve thought we’d be burying a dog? But you have to help a pretty girl, don’t you?” Their eyes flashed with twisted thoughts, their faces shining voluptuously. “Is it warm in your car?” she asked them. “I’m frozen.” While she made love to one of them, though she invited both, the other smoked nervously outside. “Do you like it?” he kept asking her, trying to cuddle like some little boy.
Undinė Radzevičiūtė
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Creative types can be divided into those who believe that they are led by an invisible hand, and those who believe that everything is controlled by chance. Though you can also meet hybrid varieties.
Then there are artists who just don't think about anything.
Debuts in Poetry that Reach for the Light
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By Neringa Butnoriūtė
The literary debuts of 2021 tell us that the role of the charismatic author is becoming more prominent. The poems have a strong focus on expressing the author’s worldview and thought process but are not necessarily bold or experimental. The variety of meaning has been limited, while the themes common to all these books can be summarized thusly: long live sensitivity, and long live attempts to reach for the light.
