* Tower (Blues Mondo). Tatyana Apraksina
“from the objectlessness of the inaudible”

* “Because They’re People.” Ella Molochkovetskaya, Olga Romanova
“Since it’s a theater within a theater, everyone is everyone there”

* Transcribers Anonymous. Tom Cobbe
“suites, sonatas and sets of variations. Oh dear. There go the holidays.”

* You Know Where They Are. John P. Rogers
“time will stop at nothing”
“something like a clock embryo in a shot glass”

* Chromatoplastics. On Color, Form and the Fundamentals of Fine Art. Olga Zemlyanikina
“A spot of color as a tool for conveying the type, character and direction of movement”

* Heeding the Calling. At the Black & Brown Comics Festival (Blues Report). James Manteith
“artists display comics with a blend of mysticism, prophecy and science fiction dubbed ‘Afrofuturism’“

*Eight Cemeteries. Sempa Dordzhe
“His head was in the southwest and his feet were in the northeast, and from them, eight great cemeteries arose in all the worlds”

* Wallace Stevens’ Thirteen Blackbirds. Vladimir Verov
“True poetry is not subject to decay”

*Spanish Rock. The Beginning. Olga Romanova
“too rocker for punks and too punk for rockers”

* The Art of Whispering. A New Poetry Collection by Gjekë Marinaj.
“the poetic lives in both hemispheres, constantly cultivating literary relationships”

* An Old Novel’s Insights and Predictions. Ekaterina Ovcharova
“the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries in Germany was marked by the appearance of two fundamentally different concepts of the eternal image — Goethe, who crowned the tradition with his two-part play, and Bonaventure, who opened the way to its deconstruction.”
“The hero has no soul to sell, and there’s no one to sell it to.”

*Car Stories. Bill Yake
“then I could see dancing shadows on the asphalt beneath the engine”