Youth Elena was a teenager whose maturing womanhood made itself known every month by five days of bleeding. She knew when it would begin and when it would end, and that was one of the few constants in her life. Elena liked the word cycle: every month, as though with a stick in the sand
After a long journey, I arrived at the Baltic Center for Writers and Translators and found its director, Lena, pruning roses in the courtyard. After all, I’m back in the town people call “the city of roses and ruins.” The last time I visited this town was four years ago, in May; the roses had
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It is symbolic that my first published review was of poet and artist Dovilė Bagdonaitė’s second book, takeliai_žolėje (paths_in_the_grass), published by Baziliskas in 2022. At the time, this poetry collection felt remarkably fresh, vibrant, and memorable. It seemed that, at last, the poems of a contemporary young woman had been written for young people. In
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Prrrpoem I’d like to write a poem so tender that a kitten would enter it to lap up some milk it would smell of cupcakes and swirl with clouds of cotton candy the sun would shine through containing a summer (sunday) afternoon it would tuck a reader in with a down blanket and spoon them
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Marius Burokas – Улица Пылесос (Vacuum Cleaner Street) Read More »
What does it feel like to arrive anew in a country one was born into? To try on its seas of water and wheat for size, to trade a conifer forest for towering concrete, the present capital (Vilnius) – for a historic one (Kaunas) and to go back on that deal again? Let me tell
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One of the most notable shifts in Lithuanian diaspora research over the past decade has been the move from institutions and historical events toward individual experience, memory, and life narratives (oral history). This direction has gained particular momentum with the development of studies in transnationalism, life writing, cultural memory, and postmemory. Laima Vincė is a
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Arcadia Your body is like a brownish sheet of paper may I crumple it? may my fingers write on it? I snuggle up to a sheet of paper kissing you, though I desire to hate I’d like your body to be a hotel I could spend a week there a five-star hotel in the city
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