Slug

It’s coming up. The end 
of July. My vacation. Two 
weeks. That’s what I get. 
Not that I do anything. 
I don’t. Or go anywhere. 
Nah. Just sleep late. 
Binge watch anything, 
everything. Eat bags of 
potato chips (too many). 
Order Door Dash (too 
often.) A slug. Basically. 
That’s what I become. 
But now, but now. I have 
Amelia. And I’m thinking, 
thinking. Road trip. Dog 
parks. That’s what I’m 
thinking. You know. 
Visit all the dog parks 
in Georgia. Tennessee 
too. I guess. But only 
the best ones. Yeah. 
Only those. She’d love it. 
Amelia. She would. I mean. 
Let’s face it. Slugs. Eew! 
Anything’s better than that.     

Laura Stamps is the author of over 50 novels and poetry collections. Most recently: “The Good Dog” (Prolific Pulse Press 2023), “Addicted to Dog Magazines” (Impspired, 2023), and “My Friend Tells Me She Wants a Dog” (Kittyfeather Press, 2023). Recipient of a Pulitzer Prize nomination and 7 Pushcart Prize nominations. Lover of feral cats, Chihuahuas, and Yorkies.

the higher-order thinking behind her smile




they agree to fast forward through the death scene




the salty air surrounds the living saint




the surface tension of the tear on old Joe's cheek




the sacramental washing of her breakfast bowl




abject individualism killed the sunflower




She said She was the cat's mother!




you changed a poem I never wrote




texting in a room filled with people who are not there




I was the F student who stayed up all night with the stars




she wants to know why I won't follow the directions on the box




his every word a choking hazard




only if the dolphins knew how good they looked on television




learning he was a bedwetting pyromaniac changed nothing




she got no argument when she said: This is purgatory!

I ASK FOR LIGHT IN THE FERVOR AND THE DRIFT

The word branches out As a creeper

The spell that sustains us dies on the tip of the tongue

Balances wear out for a while hands full

The lights dim and devour in the room of thirst

The cherry tree houses the sparrows

A gramophone makes you hear Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

In the meantime and letting the moments go by …

I ask for light as a symbol of my audacity

I ask for light, when I look at your eyes

and I see the eternity that begins to anticipate,

lying face of desire

I ask for light in fervor and drift

Soul and shadow that overflow like flight

GRACIELA NOEMI VILLAVERDE is a writer and poet from Concepción del Uruguay (Entre Rios) Argentina. Based in Buenos Aires She graduated in letters, author of seven books. Poetry genre. Awarded several times worldwide. She works as she, World Manager of Educational and Social Projects, of the Hispanic World Union of Writers .UHE World Honorary President of the same institution Activa de la Sade, Argentine Society of Writers. Commissioner of honor in the executive cabinet IN THE EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL RELATIONS DIVISION, of the UNACCC SOUTH AMERICA ARGENTINA CHAPTER.

Life is more precious than we think. The events and events we see affect us in different ways. During our life, we face a lot of obstacles and depressions, we lose our loved ones. As a person grows up, his experience increases. He begins to see the worries of life. Now when I was just two steps into school, I started having dreams, and as the years went by, my dreams grew bigger and bigger instead of coming true. Then I thought, is it possible to make a personʼs dream come true with only good intentions? However, I dreamed, but I did not work accordingly, and I turned 14 in the blink of an eye. Then I realized that the more effort a person makes, the more results they get, and I started to work. I learned to set a goal, not a dream . Of course, my teachers at school were the reason for this, and I became very interested in mathematics, and I worked on planning my future. I think that the opinions of people around us should be unimportant to us, because they are only distractions. We should live only with motivation. We should not ignore things that inspire us. If we are afraid to do it, then we should definitely try it. Of course, inattentiveness does not mean not listening to anyone’s opinions, but realizing whose opinions are important and who cares about us. The more knowledge we gain, the more we will achieve our goals. We must follow the path taught by our teachers and parents, only then will our destination be clear.

Mahammadiyeva Elnura, a student of school 68, Kashkadarya region of the Republic of Uzbekistan. She is interested in table tennis.

THE CURRENT UZBEK LITERARY ENVIRONMENT – IN MY INTERPRETATION.

Samarkand specialized art boarding school

Improvement of the creative environment, originality, creative individuality, uniqueness, and at the same time education of the young generation in the national literary spirit.

Abstract: The improvement of the creative environment, its originality, creative individuality, uniqueness, and at the same time has its influence on the upbringing of the young generation in the national literary spirit. Today, the literary environment is developing more and getting better day by day. In this article, in addition to this, we want to talk about the activities of writers who have been contributing to today’s flourishing literary environment and their creative heritage, as well as the activities of the press and mass media.

Key words: literary environment, newspapers, magazines, press, new literary environment, information flow, political sections, shows.

Therefore, before we cover the current Uzbek literary environment, it can be recognized that the world literary environment has interacted with them.

The influence of the literary environment is not small in the formation of writers who made a great contribution to the development of world literature, as well as writers whose works were read with love in smaller circles. No matter how talented a writer is, not only the educational institutions he studied in, but also the literary environment he was involved in are of great importance in the formation of his worldview and the development of his artistic skills. First of all, let’s get acquainted with the current press activity.

There are 19 republican newspapers and 2 regional newspapers in Tashkent. (“Tashkent Hakikati”, “Tashkentskaya Pravda” “The reality of Tashkent”), 2 city newspapers (“Tashkent okshomi”, “Vecherniy Tashkent” “Tashkent evening”), 44 mass circulation newspapers are published. 62 of the 67 magazines published in the republic are published in Tashkent. 4 information agencies operate in Tashkent. Most of the publishing houses in Uzbekistan are located in Tashkent. Radio Tashkent occupies a leading position in radio broadcasting of Uzbekistan. For radio listeners of Tashkent city and region, broadcasts prepared by the chief editorial office of Tashkent city and Tashkent region radio stations are broadcasted every day (since 1971). The editor-in-chief has informational and socio-political departments. The editor-in-chief of Tashkent TV studio programs for residents of Tashkent city and Tashkent region prepares special program series.

TASHKENT.

Poets and writers from Tashkent will have the opportunity to publish their works in “Al-Isloh” magazine, “Taraqqi”, “Khurshid”, “Shuhrat”, “Tujjor”, “Asiyo”, “Sadoyi Turkistan” newspapers. At the moment, book publishing is underway, and various books and collections are being published.

KHORASM.

The Khorezm literary environment has been one of the components of Uzbek national literature. Therefore, the general characteristics and principles of each period were reflected in the oasis literature to a certain extent. Of course, Jadidism, which is considered a phenomenon of national awakening, is not an exception. Therefore, Jadidism and its literary direction have their own history in this region. This history began with the work of Kamil Khorezmi and reached its peak in the work of Avaz, and these life-giving ideas were continued by their followers into a new reality.

ANDIJAN

Andijan is one of the regional cultural centers with its ancient traditions, which has delivered many great artists, writers and poets to our national culture, and whose cultural life is still very lively. The organizational center of the literary process is the regional branch of the Union of Writers, literary life is connected with the activities of local press publications and educational institutions. At present, well-known writers and poets such as Olimjon Khaldor, Tolan Nizam, Tursunoy Sadiqova, Zamira Rozieva, Farid Usman, Nabi Jaloliddin, Khurshidabanu live and work in Andijan. In particular, Nabi Jalaluddin’s novels “Khayyom” and “The Mill” about Cholpon became a significant event in Uzbek literature.

CONCLUSION

To sum up, the capital city of Tashkent not only attracts famous writers and poets to its home, but also has an impact on their creative development. The reason is that many publications and books take a long time to be prepared in Tashkent, from being ready to being copied. In this process, it is appropriate for the author to work in Tashkent, but the emergence of publishing houses in some regions has become a problem for authors from such regions.

As for the modern literature of the literary environment, an impartial study of it on a regional scale allows to clarify some of its controversial aspects, to understand and re-evaluate its socio-aesthetic essence based on the ideology of independence, and to expand the existing ideas about the literary process of that time. In this place, the Khorezm literary environment can undoubtedly be one of the research objects.

THE LIST OF USED LITERATURE

1. Toshkent [ensiklopediya], T., 1992;
2.  Azadayev F., Tashkent vo vtoroy polovine XIXveka, T., 1959;
3.  Sokolov Yu. A..Tashkent, tashkentsi i Rossiya, T. 1965;
4.  Dobroyemislov A. I., Tashkent v proshlom i nastoyashem. Istoricheskiy ocherk. T., 1912;
5.  Bartold V. V., Sochineniya, 3t.; M., 1965;
6.  Muminova R. G., Filanovich M. I., Tashkent na perekrestke istorii, T., 2001;

On the Loose 

On neighborhood listservs,
He keeps reading 
About dogs
Getting out,
That never
Would have happened
With his London,
He probably
Would have
Had a 
Heart attack 
If that had
Ever happened
With his London.


London 

It’s been
A few weeks
Since he had
A good cry
But the tears
Are really 
Flowing now,
He just
Misses her
So much.


Taylor Dibbert is a writer, journalist, and poet in Washington, DC. “Home Again,” his debut poetry collection, is due out later this year.