Vol. 2 No. 2: June 2023 CJMS

Editor’s Note - Welcome to the second issue of our second year: how time flies! It is with pleasure that we present three articles by second year Master’s Degree students in Anglistics at Gori State University. These young women are exceptional students in that they are the first Master’s candidates to choose to write their theses in English, rather than Georgian. This is a first for this university and we are proud of them for taking on such a challenge. Eter Churadze gives us English translations of two final miniatures from Niko Lortkipanidze, plus a short poem by Paolo Iashvili. We welcome a new contributor to this issue in our translation section, Lela Ebralidze. The American poet, Edgar Allen Poe, is a subject of her scientific research, and it is a pleasure to publish her translation into Georgian of one of his best-known works, Annabelle Lee. We include a contribution in our poetry section which was an entry to a competition held by the Milton Society of Africa (inspired by our own Milton Society of Georgia). Michael Chukwudi is a Nigerian-Indonesian-based author whose poem, DENIAL, addresses the unhealthy events in Nigeria, where injustice is now the order of the day. The poem is a call to restore justice, to shun the evils occurring in his native country. Thank you all, each one of you enriches our Journal!

Warm regards,
Danna Raupp

Editor-in-Chief