Richard Kostelanetz/APHORISMS

•••   About the poet: Citing Britannica.com, Richard Kostelanetz is an “American writer, artist, critic, and editor of the avant-garde who is productive in many fields.”  Kostelanetz attended Brown University (B.A., 1962), Columbia University (M.A.,...
Richard Young \ Artist Spotlight

Richard Young \ Artist Spotlight

©Richard Young Arabian Coffee Artist Spotlight A Style of His Own The work of Richard Young   Ragazine: Richard, can you tell us something of your background? Richard Young: Though I have always had a flair for pencil and chalk drawing, I graduated in engineering...
Emel Karakozak/ Photographer Spotlight

Emel Karakozak/ Photographer Spotlight

© Emel Karakozak  Budding 16  | 40x100cm |  C-print *** Photographer Spotlight BUDDING   Woman is a being through which man feels connected to nature, as woman is very similar to nature in birth-giving and life-blooming characteristics. That is why many languages...
A Crack in the Sidewalk/Barbara Rosenthal

A Crack in the Sidewalk/Barbara Rosenthal

  STUDIO ASSISTANTS: Expect the Unexpected and What Else to Expect   by Barbara Rosenthal Contributing Columnist NYC Jan 1, 2019 H appy New Year! Don’t worry. I’m not going to write about the coming apocalypse. What is occasioning this month’s column is a...
Larry Smith/Fiction

Larry Smith/Fiction

Photo by Sholto Ramsay on Unsplash   Beloved Uncle’s Hour of Need   by Larry Smith Contributor Unhappy people are America’s new underclass. You run into some guy on the street who’s just been fired from his job and has a family to worry about, and when you...

January Jukebox

  Colorado Musicians and Bands   Selected by Fred Roberts Music Editor Category: Rocky Mountain weather Song Title: Cyclone Artist: Fabulous Cyclones Year: 1960 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h71bsITpnU   Category: Colors of Colorado Song Title:...

On Location/France

  From Paris to Washington : new deal for artwork   by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret Contributing Columnist T he “Women House” exhibition co-produced by the Monnaie de Paris and the Washington National Museum of Women in the Arts links two elements...
Then and Now/Steve Poleskie

Then and Now/Steve Poleskie

  SIERRA LEONE SHOP WINDOW; PHOTOGRAPHER, STEVE POLESKIE 1972   Talking of Travels – Part Two   Stephen Poleskie/Then & Now     by Stephen Poleskie Columnist … I am sitting in the airport lounge in Freetown, Sierra Leone...
Fabia Wong/In Search Of …

Fabia Wong/In Search Of …

Photo by Randy Colas on Unsplash/Champs-Élysées, Paris, France *** The Serious Man and the rise of the mob: A contemporary contemplation of the works of Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt   by Fabia Chenivesse-Wong Columnist In the heart of...
Ana Jovanovska/Art

Ana Jovanovska/Art

Ana Jovanovska Mirrors Project *** Mirrors | Огледала   “Mirrors” is conceived as a local and participatory project. An online photo library is created with copyright documentary photographs from Kumanovo, made exclusively for the purposes of this...
Steven Masterson/Fiction

Steven Masterson/Fiction

PHOTO BY DMITRY ERMAKOV ON UNSPLASH *** LUCY’S UMBRELLA   by Steven Masterson Contributor   Lucy pulled her arms down his thighs until her hands reached his knees and pushed herself to her feet. Picking up her bag, she walked into the bathroom, closing the...

In Memoriam: Camilla Sohar

    Only if… A Poetry of Loss and Remembrance Poems by Paul Sohar   W When Camilla passed away last spring at the age of 50 due to a medical accident, her family and many friends were shocked, especially her father who had been her principal...

Young Poets of Oneonta

Prompts and New Voices I n the autumn semester of 2018, in my creative writing course at SUNY Oneonta, my students endeavored to write “thematically linked” poems. We read Adele Kenny’s “A Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing at All,” my book, “Dante’s Unintended Flight,”...
Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Mark Levy/Casual Observer

US Park Service General Grant National Memorial New York ***   Find a Grave   by Mark Levy Columnist   Quick: Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb? You know, the one at Riverside Drive and West 122nd Street in Manhattan. Grant’s Tomb, by the way, is formally...
Evan Mantyk/Interview

Evan Mantyk/Interview

(Wikipedia) A nineteenth-century painting by the English painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicting the poetess Sappho gazing on in admiration as the poet Alcaeus plays the lyre. (Wikipedia) *** Classical Poets Have a Life of Their Own An interview with Evan Mantyk...