The Memory of Objects/Book Review
Bad Harvest (ISBN-13: 978-0887486388) by Dzvinia Orlowsky Carnegie Mellon University Press https://www.cmu.edu/universitypress/ 5.5” x 8.5” paperback, 80 pages $15.95 THE MEMORY OF OBJECTS Review by Olena Jennings [dropcap style="font-size: 46px;...
Ava, Lana and Old Bob Campbell
Photo by Ashutosh Nandeshwar on Unsplash *** Ava, Lana, and Old Bob Campbell by Wayne Turmel Contributing Writer Las Vegas, 2018 ob Campbell was seventy-five by this point. He was never much of a BS...
Navigating Sicily/Travel
Photo by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash *** Navigating Sicily by Carol Severino Contributing Writer s an Italian American (half Sicilian, one-quarter Neapolitan) who takes Italian courses and...
Susan Hodara/Creative Nonfiction
n the forlorn lot, I take a look. Headlights entirely gone, grille curved inward, metal crunched. “Fuuuuckkk!” The word surges from me as I clench my fists, furious at the deer, sad for my mother, who was so proud of the care that had gone into this car, so pleased that Sofie would have it.
The Music of the Aztecs/Poetry Review
The Music of the Aztecs Edited by David B. Churchill Pony One Dog Press (Paper, $19.95) (ISBN #978-0-9753095-4-4: 115 pages) PO Box 30552 Bethesda, MD 20824 The Music of the Aztecs Review by Bill Cushing Contributing Writer [dropcap...
Steve Dalachinsky/Poetry
the club ok so dolphy left the country & i just missed trane but i got to see ayler doesn’t that qualify me for the club? where are the wash clothes when you need one & why...
Steve Carter/Poetry
"The Slave Ship" J.M.W. Turner (British School) 1775-1851 A wash of color. Red emerges, then yellow, white, finally the darker colors. A streak of brightness, neither yellow...
The Refugee, by Zoltán Böszörményi/Review
The Refugee by Zoltán Böszörményi Translated from the Hungarian by Paul Sohar Your Specs/An imprint of SynergEbooks ISBN 978-0-7443-2357-3 Copyright 2019 204 pages Paperback $12.98 on Amazon “There is only one way in which one can endure man’s...
Raven, by John Smelcer/Poetry book review
Using Raven as the standing metaphor for Human, we receive lessons in love, ethics and morality. The poems in this collection reflect upon the enduring hardships and unanswerables facing mankind that influence both the choices we make, and the effects those decisions have on others.
Entwined/Creative Nonfiction
Entwined is a creative nonfiction piece that pulls readers into an unexpected intersection between the narrator, an ambiguous stranger, and a girl. This unsettling meeting mirrors the author’s own troubled emotional state, as she struggles to separate the two to reveal the truth of the encounter.
A Grand Adventure/Fiction
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — Georges Seurat. Art Institute of Chicago *** A Grand Adventure by Gina Willner-Pardo er elderly mother’s death left Laila Rayburn untethered, a condition she had never...
A Room in the World/Fiction
A hundred-dollar radio lurks on the hutch playing its concoction of progressive radio and commercial crap at low volume. By the radio a red scaly organizer suns itself under a craning lamp.
The Reunion/Marlene Olin
He packed a week before his flight, bringing twice the amount of clothes that he needed. A sport coat in case people were dressing up. Jeans in case people were dressing down. A sweater in case it was cold. A golf shirt in case it was warm. For the first time in his life, Calvin went to a fancy salon where they manicured his nails and shaved his beard. He felt buffed and polished, his engine in good working order, his chassis gleaming. He read and reread each of Miriam’s books. He felt ready to tackle the world.
The Illustrated “On the Road”/Christopher Panzner
“The Illustrated On the Road,” by Jack Kerouac Illustrations by Christopher Panzner Project Details: he idea was to create a watercolor/ink carnet de voyage (travel sketchbook or...
Rustin Larson/Poetry
Me, Being Rude A woman knocks, asks what I think the purpose of life is. Possible answers: 1) No. No, thank you. 2) The purpose of life is to not be asked such questions. 3) There is no purpose. Life just is. If the rose-petal goddess likes me, that’s a good thing....
The Music of the Aztecs/Book Review
“A Sibyl of Fortune,” Jan Claire Starkey’s segment, touches on the mythic — both legendary and personal — from “God” to “The Sphinx,” and she recalls her childhood in “Magic Castles.” However, she really shines when undertaking one of the most irresistible topics for poets — that of Icarus — in “Above the Labyrinth.” However, this rendition takes after the stance of a mother as onlooker to her progeny’s downfall.
Bruce McRae/Poetry
In The Beginning Was Their End The prophecy suggests the same old sun in the same old story. That the sky will brighten come morning. The prophecy tells us, without a doubt, an infant shall be led by death. It’s written in your book of the stars. It’s written in...
Lisa Dougherty/Poetry
A Raggity-Anne Her hair was short. A kind of long Bob. She was day-cared for the night time working Mom. So she found my lap familiar. First it was story time. Sat her there. Moved her arms as if they were an extension of we can be ridiculous sometimes. She’d...
We Became Summer/Book Review
We Became Summer by Amy Barone NYQ Books https://books.nyq.org/catalog.php 2018 (ISBN: 978-1-63045-053-3) (5” x 7”, paperback, 92 pages, $15.95) Review by Tsaurah Litzky Memorable Encounters Start With A Tongue1 [dropcap style="font-size: 46px;...
Eric Fulgione/Poetry
Rye Sunburnt meadows stretch their golden tendrils and wrap me in their mystery. Cattails whisper soft secrets, beckoning me into their infectious oblivion. I keep walking. Sepia filters discard harsh hues and grey thoughts. Monochrome memories trapped in a tinted...
Andrew Higgins/Poetry
The Joy of Shopping We've all made that mistake, waiting by the bar for happiness to stumble in and open his wallet. But it never happens. So we learn to buy it, nursing those seconds when options hang like garments arranged on a black wire rack. On Losing Out...
The Dead Kid Poems/Review
The Dead Kid Poems Alexis Rhone Fancher The Dead Kid Poems (April 2019) Press: KYSO Flas http://www.kysoflash.com/Books.aspx#DeadKid (available on Amazon) ISBN: 978-09980375-2-3 6” x 9”, paperback, 51 pages ($15.00) Reviewed by Alexandra Umlas [dropcap...
Kelly Wise/Poetry
Monopoly In front of our Victorian mansion, Alongside other houses of its’ kind Between the pearly white curb and the jagged sidewalk, Rolls a stripe of green. In the middle is a dusty stone brick, The remains of something much taller. That’s where the horses were...
Icarus Rising/Book Review
Icarus Rising By Don Beukes Alien Buddha Press https://alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/blog/ ISBN-13:978-1979636162 106 pages/paperback ($9.99) Reviewed by Heath Brougher on Beukes’ second book Icarus...
The Out of Body Shop/Book Review
The Arc and the Mirror: A review of The Out of Body Shop By Nancy Mitchell MadHat Press https://madhat-press.com/products/the-out-of-body-shop-by-nancy-mitchell Reviewed by Miriam O’Neal t begins with the...