2025 — Volume XIX — Numbers 1 & 2

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This double issue for 2025 marks a pivotal moment in the life of the Mundus Artium journal. While extending the legacy of our world literature periodical founded in 1967—and the momentum of its relaunch in 2023 and continuation in 2024—this volume is shaped by a profound human transition.

The issue opens with a memorial section devoted to Frederick Turner (1943–2025)—poet, philosopher, translator, critic, teacher, president of Mundus Artium Press, and co-editor of this journal. Turner was the spirit behind this journal’s relaunch as a new series in 2023. An essay by the editors of Mundus Artium, “The Place of Free Time,” surveys Turner’s contributions to the journal and press, traces the threads of his legacy across this and prior issues, and closes with a poem in which he outlines his vision of paradise as boundless fellowship.

Further tributes from friends, students, and colleagues include words from the journal’s ongoing editor, poet Gjekë Marinaj, and from writer and educator John Perryman, performance artist Fred Curchak, and poet and educator David J. Rothman—the 2025 recipient of the Frederick Turner Prize for Poetry. The prize named in Turner’s honor will continue to support ethically engaged formal excellence in the craft he held so dear.

Beyond the tributes, the issue features Turner’s prose meditation “A Divestment” and two late poems, co-translations with Tirtha Mukhopadhyay of Bengali poems to Kali by Kamalakanta Bhattacharya and Ramprasad Sen, and a pithy translation (with the late Zsuzsanna Ozsváth) of János Arany’s renowned ballad “The Bards of Wales.”

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