“Often regarded as one of the pioneers of women’s war writing in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lazarevska represents an alternative to the heroic war discourse…” Maida Salkanović on Alma Lazarevska’s groundbreaking ‘Death in the Museum of Modern Art’.
“I’d like to make my readers wake up in a stranger’s clothes.” Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało, our Poet of the Month for September, talks to Maida Salkanović.
“Being a former slavophile and Yugonostalgic, Skopje represented a distant dream…” Maida Salkanović visits Macedonia’s “city of a thousand statues”.
Maida Salkanović reviews Amir Osmančević’s “poignant testimony of wasted human lives and the disrupted social structures war leaves behind.”
“Poets today may bear no responsibility to write poems with a social/moral message. Yet this freedom comes with a price.” Shanta Acharya, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Maida Salkanović.
Contributing writer Maida Salkanović explores the modern day fall-out of peace negotiations in Bosnia-Herzegovina more than 20 years ago.
Maida Salkanović reviews ‘Crossing Black Waters’, Athena Kashyap’s first poetry collection.
Junior Poetry Editor Maida Salkanović takes us on a journey through her Sarajevo, where impermanence takes on a whole new meaning.
“When the media is not objective, catering more to the sensationalist and vested interests, then art can and has to step in…” Athena Kashyap, our Poet of the Month, talks to Maida Salkanović.
by Gordana Simeunović, translated from the Serbian by Maida Salkanović