Sladjana Milenkovic
PhD Sladjana Milenkovic was born in 1973 in Sremska Mitrovica, Srebia. She finished Faculty of Philosophy department of Yugoslav literature and the Serbo-Croatian language in Novi Sad. At the same faculty she finished MA and the PhD studies. She works at the College of Professional Studies for education of preschool teachers and business informatics – Sirmium in Sremska Mitrovica as a teacher. She also worked as a journalist, now she is as editor in chief of the Journal of Science, Culture and Arts “Sunčani sat”. Member of the Association of Journalists of Serbia and of the Association of Writers of Vojvodina.
She has published more scientific monographs and textbooks for students and teachers, dozens of literary critical texts, and participated in several international conferences. She is the author of books of poetry Jutro zaspale srne (Svitak, Pozega, 1994), Goniči snova (Drugari, Jazak, 1995) Potpis sna (Brankovo kolo, Novi Sad, 1997) and Drugim rečima (Prometheus, Novi Sad, 2014) Goniči snova/Hounds of dreams (Književna zajednica, Sremska Mitrovica 2016). Her poetry has been awarded several times at literary events, and her poems have been translated in english, germany, turkish, swedish, japanese, romenian, maceodnican, and represented in many collections of poetry.
RULER
Religious keepers
of sacred relics are now
only yours.
Ducat and your character on it.
Carry it wherever they want,
people
and provide for a kilo of fruit.
Horoscope hiding
your climb and you fall.
Astrologer prophesied
the darkening of sacred relics
before the golden ruler.
Finiteness of life
you can not change
neither reign on religion.
A flash of life
in the eyes of those disappearing.
This roulette you have not got.
