The Global Online Magazine of Arts, Information & Entertainment
January-Febuary 2015 |Volume 11 Number 1
Featured Posts
Memoir
John Smelcer
America’s Scrappy Novelist (and poet?): A Memoir of Norman Mailer
Creative Nonfiction
Molly Krause
A Legacy of
AIDS in Ebola
Fiction
William T. Hathaway
Night in Bishkek
A shot woke the man. He lifted his head, not knowing where he…
Photography
Benoit Jammes
SKITCHEN: The secret sporting life
of our friends the fruits and vegetables
Welcome
A whole new look
Bina Sarkar Ellias from Mumbai, publisher of the exquisite International Gallerie 
magazine, preceded reading a few of her poems at Jadite Gallery in Hell’s Kitchen (New York City) in late December with a brief commentary on her goals and wishes: that her magazine, and her life, help illuminate understanding for and an appreciation of the diversity of characters in the great play we’re all in, with its new passages and chapters written into history with each passing moment. The diversity of the assemblage at that gathering was certainly representative of her dream, and of so many…
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Photographer Janez Vlachy’s City Night series
Slovenian photographer Janez Vlachy captures “the special atmosphere of cities at night, which is so much different than during the day. The process is very slow, as I shoot with the large format camera. Sometimes police come along checking on what I am doing; I always carry some identification on me. I like the tranquility of the process.”
Also see his previous work in ragazine.cc and more of this series at his website.
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L’avventura: A long poem by Dwayne Barrick
How dedicated we were then!
For Il Deserto Rosso Carlo Di Palma my cinematographer
had every leaf along a line of trees that would serve
as a distant scrim painted grey but only to be
realized while the sun was somewhat blind
yet on the day of shooting after days of painting
the sun was bright. He cancelled the shot.
Tricks of Lights/Poetry Book Review
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Our Back Yard/Orazio Salati, Artist
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Miriam O’Neal/Poetry Book Review
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Neil Tetkowski: Art and Activism in Clay
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Laura Boss/Poetry
THIS THANKSGIVING This Thanksgiving my husband and I went to Atlanta to spend Thursday through Sunday with his very caring daughter Jim and I had gotten up at 3:20 a.m. and were at the airport by 5 My new husband ( not so different from...
Lucy Nell Stewart/Featured Artist: Video
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John Michael Flynn/Travel in Russia’s Far East
Dehydrated, constipated, stiff in the neck, I look around Novy airport and spot travelers who appear to suffer similar discomforts. I like knowing we share these. The room isn’t heated well. Yet none appear cold. I’ve learned that…
In The Trees/Fiction
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On Location, France/Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret
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A. J. Fries/Artist
This ongoing series started with simple portraits of the toys I remembered from childhood, evoking the nostalgia and celebrating the simplistic brilliance of their design. Well-loved and enthusiastically played with, these portraits remind the viewer of the world they left behind when they grew up…
Management by Emotions/by Carlos M. Rodriguez, Ph. D.
Management by Emotions: The “Artist” Inside Me by Carlos M. Rodriguez, Ph.D. Contributing Writer usiness organizations around the world strive for profitability, growth, and sustainability....
Duda Penteado/Art + Activist = Artivist
I had a chance recently to visit the Karl and Helen Burger Gallery at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, where Brazilian-American artist and cultural activist Duda Penteado has a solo show running through to December 2. The exhibition is free and open to the public…
The Ruined, Blessed Stairs/Donna Vitucci, Creative Nonfiction
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Lotta Lemetti/Photography
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Our Back Yard
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Our Back Yard: Mick McMahon/Poetry
Death of a Dandelion The day I died was not just one day. It was a year, maybe two, maybe three – It was slow. It was painful And it went unnoticed. The sun still rose. The day I died, I did not go coughing. There was no sobbing, no wheezing, I did not die...