Cover: Nov.-Dec. 2009

What’s really great about this update are the volunteers – many of them contributing for the first time – who breathe fresh life into our pages. Putting out a magazine of any kind – paper or plastic – is not a job for one person. The more eclectic, the more it takes to make happen. Many thanks to editors Joe Weil (poetry); Jim Palombo (politics); Leslie Heywood (creative non-fiction); Mark Levy and Ryan Miosek, (legal); Metta Sama and Phyllis Mass (fiction);  Lynda Barreto (“The Litchfields”); Molly Goldblatt (Out Loud), and the many “interested others” who help in large and small ways to keep the ball rolling.

These editors’ contributions, along with the people whose work they bring to your attention, deserve special credit for helping us fill a void in your on-line experience. Find out more about our editors in “About Us”, about their submission policies in “Submissions”; and about the contributors themselves in the short bios that appear with each selection.

Guest curators Robert Hazzon, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Larry Hamill, of Columbus, Ohio, were asked to gather work from fellow artists and photographers they believe merit a larger audience. You can find their selections on the Art and Photography pages, respectively. Hazzon’s photographs appeared in the September-October issue of ragazine.cc, and  Hamill’s work appears in several issues — including this one, where you’ll find a number of whimsical “camera” shots that go to the heart of the tools of his trade.

A few things about the new Word Press blog format
(in case you didn’t notice):

•             We can archive automatically and completely;
•             You can register/subscribe more easily;
•              You can comment immediately on what you see/read;
•              We can build pages more rapidly, though not with the kind of design flexibility we’d like; we’ll work on that;
•              We’re now “Kindle-ready” — you can download stories to your e-ink book and take them with you on the road. Just like “Ulysses”, only shorter.
•             You can still tell your mother and your friends about us. And we hope you do. Word-of-mouth is everything.

“Kindle-ready” — What’s it mean?

On the go? Take along ragazine.cc. Simply dial in to zinepal at (http://www.zinepal.com/create) and create your own feed: http://ragazine.cc/feed/.  Once we’re aboard your Kindle or other e-ink device, you’ll be able to read stories, check out the art, share in the lives of others, all while sitting on a beach in the Bahamas or Havana.

Thanks for reading!
Mike F.

 

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