From the “The APNEA Poems”, by Bill Yarrow

From the “The APNEA Poems”, by Bill Yarrow

    The following selection is from the collection, “THE APNEA POEMS,” by Bill Yarrow.    EYES OFF THE ROAD One by one I lost my desires.  Dirty ambition left first. Knowledge raged but then it cooled.  Riches never had the hook very deep. ...
Hiroshi Hayakawa/ Artist Spotlight

Hiroshi Hayakawa/ Artist Spotlight

Vanitas-2 Graphite on Bristol board  |  20”x 26” | 2014 Artist Spotlight van·i·tas/ˈvanəˌtäs/noun”Vanitas, (Latin: , “vanity”) in art, a genre of still-life paintings that flourished in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. A vanitas painting contains...
Brian Cullman on W. S. Merwin

Brian Cullman on W. S. Merwin

  W. S. Merwin: In memoriam   by Brian Cullman Contributing Writer   My parents had dinner with Robert Frost once. They said he stared at his lamb chops angrily, stopped, fixed his eyes on them, and then turned his attention back to his plate. And though it...
The Hunt for Emmanuel Macron/by Fabia Wong

The Hunt for Emmanuel Macron/by Fabia Wong

Photo by Randy Colas on Unsplash *** The hunt for Emmanuel Macron: What happens when the press and public become locked in a feedback loop of extremism     by Fabia Chenivesse-Wong Contributing Writer In May 2017, Emmanuel Macron was elected as President of...

Jim Palombo/Politics

  FOR THE RECORD   by J. Palombo Columnist Over the past ten years I’ve been the Politics Editor for Ragazine, writing articles on a wide range of political, economic and social issues. An important theme running through many of the pieces, fueled by my four...