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
REVIEW Tricks of Light: New and Selected Poems by Thad Rutkowski, (New York: Great Weather for Media, 2020) Publication date: April 6, 2020 $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-9981440-7-8 Paperback, 100 pages By Jim Feast Readers know from poems in Thad Rutkowski’s delightful...
Alan Britt
IT’S NOT OVER TILL WE SAY IT’S OVER That’s why they’re called safety matches; duck your head before striking. That’s when the tarnished Indian elephant coin bank with iron-stripped flathead screw divorced both ribcages spilling wheat pennies, buffaloes, Mercury...
Miriam O’Neal/Poetry Book Review
Carolyn Welch The Garden of Fragile Beings (2019) Finishing Line Press https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-garden-of-fragile-beings-by-carolyn-welch/ ISBN:978-1- 63534-736-4 6” X 9”, paperback, 88 pages ($19.99) A...
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
Reality Check Artist Statement “I find great sustenance in the mother ship and all her elements. Coming from a classical and avant-garde theatre arts background I carry with me the proscenium to composite new worlds with my beloved and always surprising...
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...
Our Back Yard: Bertha Rogers/Anglo-Saxon Riddle Poems
Uncommon Creatures Perfect Paperback: 216 pages Publisher: Six Swans Artist Editions; First edition (April 1, 2019) Language: English ISBN-10: 1893389057 ISBN-13: 978-1893389052...
Our Back Yard: Keery Hastings/Poetry
Body Buried Body burned into a wooden box Or maybe gently paced into a casket; Dug just a bit too high underground. Dressed in a last pair of clothes; Hands to chest – A lonely name ground into pink marbled stone; Settled under the next available lot – The leaves from...
Our Back Yard/Poetry Review by Emily Vogel
Since Sunday BRITTANY TOMASELLI Distributed for Omnidawn Publishing, Inc. 48 pages | 5 1/2 x 7 | © 2019 Paper $13.95ISBN: 9781632430731Published October 2019 By Emily Vogel Poetry Editor Brittany Tomaselli’s most recent collection of poems, “Since Sunday”...
Our Back Yard: Mike Foldes/Poetry
Dreaming in Hungarian Miskolc, Eger, Budapest, letcho, goulash, paprikash, nem, egan, dobos torte, smooth roads, fenceless fields ideally suited for horse-drawn wagons to leave wakes of broken grasses, transitory roadways for...
The Number Five… /Book Review
Bob Heman and Cindy Hochman The Number 5 Is Always Suspect — Collaborative Poems Presa Press, 2019 http://presapress.com/the-number-5-is-always-suspect-collaborative-poems ISBN: none (6” x 9”, paperback, 36 pages ($8.00) ...
Marc Darnell/Poetry
Gadget Man is a juicy machine-- a talking sack of fluids, no soul, I mean no aura, no spirit seen. If you ask druids if man is a juicy machine they'll say he's a stream in sync with all the gods, but no soul. I mean well, though I seem cold, inhumanly rude to say man...
Carol Smallwood: Interviewing the Interviewer
MF: You once mentioned to me that you find editors are the unsung heroes of “the business” we are in. Can you elaborate on that?
CS: Editors are behind the scenes, helping others look good. We are there to help and must put our own need to write on hold.
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;...
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...