THE MAN WHO INVENTED FIRE A hundred million nights before the first electric chair, some bored Neanderthal with the luck of a TV detective knocked two rocks together and made them spark. Glacial wind pawed the hide hung over the cave-maw. Maybe an infant cried in the...
Photo by Gage Skidmore, CC Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail *** By the Seats of Our Pants “. . . the sadness lives in the recognition that a life cannot matter.” Claudia Rankine, “Cornel West makes the point. . . ” from Don’t Let...
Scene from Field of Dreams, based on W. P. “Bill” Kinsella’s novel, Shoeless Joe. *** W. P. Kinsella Slides Home by John Smelcer Contributing editor I became friends with Canadian writer W. P. “Bill” Kinsella in the mid-1990s. Over the years, we have...
State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies by Alexis Rhone Fancher Published by KYSO Flash Press, 2015 ISBN 978-0-98-627032-1 52 pages $20.00 “…not an abstract metaphor.” Review by Paul Sohar Death is a ready-made dramatic situation; the word alone carries...
Steve Poleskie works with Helen Frankenthaler *** Helen Frankenthaler’s Scarf by Stephen Poleskie My article on Elaine de Kooning in the last issue of Ragazine apparently proved quite popular. So I will write about another person included in the Denver Museum’s...
Updated approximately six times a year, is a collaboration of emerging and established artists, writers, poets, musicians, photographers, travelers and interested others, with a goal to promote an eclectic selection of subject matter to an international audience. Please carefully read submission guidelines before sending material.
The name Ragazine was coined in the mid-’70s in Columbus, Ohio, as the title of an alternative newspaper/magazine put together by a group of friends. It was revived in 2004 as ragazine.cc, the on-line magazine of arts, information and entertainment, a collaboration of artists, writers, poets, photographers, travelers and interested others. And that’s what it still is.
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