To Sylvia: A Book Review by Candice Lousia Daquin To Sylvia, a Poetry Collection by Anushka Mitra (WissenMonk Publications, 2025) In this slim volume of poetry influenced by its eponymous heroine, poet Anushka Mitra directly questions the very subjects Sylvia Plath did, through an echo refrain of Plath’s considerations and Anushka’s own forthright way of…
A Mouth Full of Salt
A Mouth Full of Salt: A Book Review by Candice Louisa Daquin A Mouth Full of Salt, a Novel by Reem Gaafar (Invisible Publishing, 2025) Gaafar’s debut novel begins with the search for a missing boy in the village, presumed drowned in the Nile. Having spent much time by the Nile as a child of…
Diamonds and Rust
Diamonds and Rust: A Book Review by Candice Louisa Daquin Diamonds & Rust (Toad Press, 2025), a Chapbook by Catalina Vergara, Translated by Tiffany Troy Diamonds & Rust is in English and Spanish on facing pages, and the books subject matter, as mentioned by the translator, is: “inspired by themes of love and memory in…
Anatoliy Anatoliy
Two poems by Anatoliy Anatoliy, translated from Ukrainian by Olena O’Lear Look, There’s on the Skyline the Smother Look, there’s on the skyline the smother —but we did not choose it, my brother.The dragon’s dark ages and yearswere forging both shackles and spears;from all the unovercome races,they chose us in their cruel chases.And what will…
Francis Kurkievicz
Two poems translated from Portuguese by the poet It Took Me a Long Time to Penetrate this Forest It took me a long time to penetrate this forest—youth knows neither invitation nor prudence.I followed the trailwith innocence in my eyes,with curiosity in my soul,as my body was magnetized.I crossed green cathedralsand gave myself to a…
Ma Yongbo
Two poems translated from the Chinese by the poet A Man Carrying a Pane of Glass A man walks carrying a pane of glass on the road with the sharp, rough edge wrapped in newspaper that screens his upper body, thinking himself invisible to others. His upper half appears flat through the glass, making it different from carrying a…
James B. Nicola
Alternate Perspectives For instance, that a graveyard is a gardentoo, which, though seeming still, careers through spaceon a great round spheroid ship squashed in at poleswith flaws, dents, bumps, like an uncultured pearl,a natural jewel. And when a soul’s turned init fertilizes futures with more carbonand sand to make more pearl, emerald, diamond.Or that Earth’s…
Richard Stimac
Mermet Springs, Illinois In Little Egypt, near Cairo, Thebes, and Karnak,Straight along Highway 57 south,Along the current’s misgiving switchbackWhere the river is wider than at the delta’s mouth,In an old stone pit, we’ve sunk our culture’s wrecks:A coal car, airplane, pick-up truck, the scrapAnd waste of someone’s dreams, life, foregone projects.Our lives’ ends fit so…
Rick Christiansen
Not a Hero Just not yet shatteredReflecting and bending lightWe are all new glass My father was past 80 when he finally began to tell us about the war.It was his first war, when he was only 20.He served during three conflicts.But it was that first war that marked him. It started when we found…
Autumn Renewal: Life and Legends – Thirteen
“Every ending carries the seed of a beginning. After the silence, the voices return…” The Thirteenth Edition of “Life and Legends” – “Autumn Renewal” is now live. To read the current edition, please visit us at www.lifeandlegends.com
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Life and Legends Relaunches with Renewed Editorial Vision and Open Call for Submissions
PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Greater Los Angeles: California: June 30, 2025: Life and Legends, an internationally recognized literary magazine founded in 2014 as part of the Silent River Film and Literary Society—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization—now enters a new chapter following the dissolution of its parent organization’s nonprofit status, as an independent platform, under the…