Trafika Europe 4 - Armenian Rhapsody

in our Trafika Europe “Four Takes” event, during her recent visit to NYC.

Although all the Armenian writers presented here live in Armenia, we’re taking note of the culture’s geographical dispersion symbolically by interspersing them among the other works in this issue – rather than grouping them in their own section. Works by Armenian writers are indicated by an asterisk (*) in the Table of Contents. The international nature of Europeans today is further highlighted in this issue. German novelist Stephanie Kremser grew up in São Paulo, attended film school in Munich, and lives with her husband, the Catalan writer Jordi Puntí, in Barcelona. Superb Romanian poet Adrian Oproiu lives, works and teaches long-term in Croatia. Besides his poems in these pages, you can read his sublime poetic essay on the psychic displacement he experiences with words (especially given his cross-cultural living), here – it’s in our monthly Trafika Europe Corner column, at a sister site, Ohio Edit . Also cross-culturally, we’ve got exciting new science fiction from Ukrainian novelist Taras Antypovych, and verse which astonishes from Italian poet Vincenzo Bagnoli – stunning, not to be missed – in collaboration with photographer / translator Valeria Reggi. We’re grateful for talented artist Arthur Lee Talley, who has contributed the artwork for the title pages and cover of this issue. Enjoy this extended romp through today’s Europe!