PS1 NY Art Book Fair 2018
Finding Alternatives: The NY Art Book Fair he world of publishing is far from dead. At least if you're into the best of what can be done with ink and paper. The annual book fair at PS1 in...
Jessica Noyes McEntee/Fiction
Can You Say Capitalism? by Jessica Noyes McEntee Contributing Writer Papa always said, “Princesses have princes to come to their rescue, but you have me. And Donovan, in a pinch—he’s on the payroll for that.” An unsentimental sort, he never followed up...
Joe Giordano/Fiction
At the Cemetery by Joe Giordano Contributing Writer "Who died?" Craig’s eyes rose. They were brown like a Basset Hound. "What? Oh, Frank, you surprised me." If we weren’t on the beach, or under the boardwalk with a chick, the guys hung out at Conor’s Irish Pub...
Maria Mazziotti Gillan/Poetry
So Many Things I Wish I Had Done So many things I wish I had done, so many things I wish I had said, all those words that could have comforted but that I withheld, so now even so many years after my father’s death I wish I could call him back from inside the mausoleum...
William Crawford/Flash Photo
Crawdaddy Conjures Up A Mostly Forgotten Japanese Pop Star, Aku Sakamoto, To Break International Tension On The Golden Gate. by William Crawford Contributor immy Pro runs a tight ship...
Karen Lethlean/An Ironman’s Story
Say What?! Ironman: The most grueling race in the worldwhere a lifetime training often is not enough by Karen LethleanContributing Writer ccording to Ironman triathlon mythology Germans are...
T.R. Hummer/Poetry
What’s the matter with the old musicians
of Kansas City? From here they look
Like planets exploded in the prairie wind.
That’s why the sunset swings
So hard, distant and bright and bloody.
Ocean Ghosts/Ben White
And I was haunted. All the way across the ocean on the way to Tokyo to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Japanese Coast Guard, I was haunted by the sea, the stories, the history, the unknown, the traditions, the journey. The haunting itself is a ghost.
Sherrie Harvey/Creative Nonfiction
Photo by Jenny Marvin on Unsplash *** The Bermuda Triangle by Sherrie Harvey Contributing Writer How would you girls like to spend the summer in Bermuda? My mom asks my younger sister and me. The May fervor of the approaching summer excites us. My tumultuous...
Lyn Lifshin/Four Poems of Aleppo
LIFE IN ALEPPO a day without bombs, is good. You can leave your apart- ment, wander thru small oasis of color and light. No words, only the sense of loss. No color except for an plot of green and one plum tree, not turned to drift wood. One man who has not left, says...
Rich Ives/Flash Nonfiction
was busy naming the clouds before I knew it. I called them what happens next, and I called them this is the way it has always been. I put new clothes on them, and I taught them to dance differently. I tried to get that slouch out of their walk, but they always smiled with self-satisfaction. All you had to do was make a few things happen and everyone forgot about the limp.
Jim Feast/Book Review
border crossings by Thaddeus RutkowskiPaperback, 6"x9"96 pagesSensitive Skin BooksISBN: 978-1977850898$12.95 by Jim Feast There is a poem called “Border Crossings” in a new book of the same name by Thaddeus Rutkowski. It’s a...
Michael T. Young/Poetry
Dredging Gulls tow my gaze out beyond the breakwaters and jetties, to coast there among the glass towers. Wind whips the water in me into waves and spindrift. Along all my shores are hardnesses broken down into sand, fragments supposed to equal the history of me....
Fiction/Jean E. Verthein
Plie, Adjust, Tundu, Tap by Jean E. Verthein Contributing Writer Three in the morning. The phone rang. It did, didn’t it? After all, detectives called for midnight lineups to check whether the attacker from six months earlier was there. But...
Ed Coffey/Essay
Why Do I Race? by Ed CoffeyContributing Writer ran for 10 years before I ever even knew that ordinary people raced. I thought that racing was for elite or, at least, very talented runners. The people I saw...
Hunger and Hallelujahs book review
Hunger and Hallelujahs by Philip Elliott Fiction Big Pond Rumours Press, 2018 $10.00 (Canadian), 22 page ISBN: 978-0-9959662-3-9 Reviewed by Charles Rammelkamp he unnamed Irish girl at the heart of...
Brendan Brady/Poetry
The Snow in March is Tired Powdered abstractions in an opaque vanity, sickly snow perspires and gasps, engorged and sinking into sleep. A lullaby swallowed is wasted under evening daffodil while streetlights seize, blinking and confused. The power flashed and the...
Henry Giroux’s Summer Critical Reading List
Henry Giroux’s Critical Reads in the Age of the American Nightmare By Henry A. Giroux Contributing Editor t is hard to imagine a more urgent moment for developing a language of critique...
Evan Lockwood/Commentary
Epiphany in a Pizza Shop A Trumpian Reverie By Evan Lockwood Illegally stoned on a plant not federally legal yet, in line at a pizza shop on a Friday night. The line is uncomfortably long for being this stoned. A young girl – clearly the daughter of an...
Paul Sohar on John Amen’s “… Overwhelm”
“Illusion of an Overwhelm” by John Amen New York Quarterly Books First Edition 72 Pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1630450480 ISBN-13: 978-1630450489 By Paul Sohar It was no illusion, but a real “overwhelm” that this reader experienced going over John Amen’s latest...
Judith Skillman/RD Armstrong Review
Orphaned Words: Forgotten Poems from a Haphazard Life by RD Armstrong $20.00 USD + shipping, 246 pp A Review by Judith Skillman In RD Armstrong’s Orphaned Words, we find a rare honesty, beginning with the poet’s forward: “If it weren’t for...
Mark Walker/Creative Nonfiction
My Life in the Land of the Eternal Spring: The Coffee Plantation By Mark D. Walker Contributor hough I had lived and worked in Guatemala for seven years, it was a brief encounter with my young...
Cammy Pedroja/3 Poems
The Invisible Man By the window, on a black bone chair the germs leave your body through smoke. Can two tandem blankly to bash out a cure? I have read that drones die in the act of mating. Honey-stomachs busting in the rub of it. The longtime residents warned...
Emily Carney Reviews Elizabeth Cohen
Against the Ache: Elizabeth Cohen’s The Patron Saint of Cauliflower By Emily Carney Contributing Reviewer “I’m preparing for the end of the world / again,” writes Elizabeth Cohen, “which is to say I am making / goulash.” This is how Cohen introduces The...
The Drunkards/Book Review
“The Drunkards” by L.M. Rivera Omnidawn Publishing Copyright 2018 ISBN 1632430541, 9781632430540 144 Pages $11.93 Review by Emily Vogel L.M. Rivera’s new collection of poetry, “The Drunkards” is first of all predicated upon and associated with numerous notions and...