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The frontispiece photo was taken this spring on May 8 at the dedication ceremony of Latvia’s Beehive Stand Monument to the Fallen and the Living in Lestene Soldiers’ Cemetery in Latvia. The dedication speech given by Valters Nollendorfs is on page 94.

 

L I T E R A T U R E

Selections of new poetry are from Paula Bička, Zane Brūvere Kvēpa, Gvido Drage (Redžinalds Grikmanis), Elīna Līce, Alise Mētra, Evija Puķe-Jansone, Raibīs (Oskars Orlovs), Linda Tīmane and Kristaps Upenieks.

Prose is from Dainis Deigelis, Sandra Dieziņa, Kristīne Jučkoviča, Uldis Ozolants, Inga Pizāne, Sandra Ratniece and Lea Vinks (Linda Vītuma).

Dagnija Dreika offers Latvian translations of samples from the English romantic poets Sir Walter Scott, William Words­worth, Percey Bisshe Shelley and George Gordon Byron.

Kristaps Vecgrāvis translates to the Latvian language four poems by Lithuanian dadaist/Imagist Pranas Morkūnas (1900-1941).

 

H I ST O R Y

Philologist/historian Jānis Zālītis tells the life story of the literary historian and prolific translator Edvīns Teivens (1900-1974).

 

T H E A T E R

Atis Rozentāls, theater critic and news editor for Latvia’s daily newspaper Diena, describes how four different professional Latvian theater companies each manifest a uniquely Latvian character in recent original productions.

 

V I S U A L   A R T

JG art editor Linda Treija describes a recent exhibit of the work of contemporary artist Gita Šmite, much of it on the theme of a shirt or blouse of good fortune received in childhood from her own mother.

Art historian Baiba Magdalena Eglīte writes about an exhibit of the art of Visvaldis Reinholds (1924-2016) at the Global Center for Latvian Art in Cēsis, Latvia.

 

B O O K   R E V I E W S

Laimdota Ločmele reviews the novel Herbārijs ar leduspuķēm (Herbarium with Frost Flowers) by Džena Andersone,

Ingus Barovskis: Stārks (Stork), a novel set in Latvia during the revolution of 1904, by the British/Latvian author Miks Koljers (Mike Collier),

Sanita Dāboliņa: Atgaisma (Reflection), a collection of short stories by Arno Jundze, and

Eva Mārtuža: Kundziņsalas teikas (Legends of Kundziņsala) by Andris Zeibots. Kundziņsala is a neighborhood of Rīga, fully enclaved by the Daugava River.