Real Life/Poetry Review

Taking the Temperature of the 21st Century Climate 6×9 Paperback 232 Pages Published by Omnidawn, 2018 ISBN-10: 1632430576 ISBN-13: 978-1632430571 Price: $14.62 on Amazon   Review by Emily Vogel Poetry Editor T he immanance of the speaker in Julie Carr’s new...

Christmassy Playlist 2018/Music

  A World of  Christmas Music (that’s not all sleigh bells)     by Fred Roberts Music Editor Category: Angsty Christmas cheer Song Title: Cindy Wants to Cry Artist: Gary Wilson Year: 2016 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zID8H6fOS0 Category:...
Gift Boxes for the Rich

Gift Boxes for the Rich

Cynthia Karalla Cynthia Karalla’s Gift {boxes} For The Rich Review by Frank Mattondo In the Eighties, I remember meeting a fellow (older than me) who considered himself very lucky to have known a few of the odd satellites who orbited Andy Warhol. Having recently...
A Crack in the Sidewalk/Barbara Rosenthal

A Crack in the Sidewalk/Barbara Rosenthal

  MEDIA ART RESTORATION: The Craft of the Art of the New Old New   by Barbara Rosenthal Contributing Columnist NYC Nov 1, 2018 G reetings, Readers, for this last issue of the year, and what could be more fitting for this philosophy of art column, as we ring...
TIME OF CHANGE @ Throckmorton Fine Art

TIME OF CHANGE @ Throckmorton Fine Art

Lola Alvarez Bravo The Dream | Isabel Villasenor Tenacatita Jalisco | 1941 |  Gelatin silver print | 8 x 10 *** TIME OF CHANGE Visual Dialogue between Lola Alvarez Bravo and Mariana Yampolsky   The following essay appears in the guide to TIME OF CHANGE, the...

Fabia Wong/In search of …

  Identity and Due Process in the #MeToo era   by Fabia Chenivesse-Wong 1185 October 20 T he election that saw Donald Trump become the President of the United States brought on an intensive period of soul searching, understandably and necessarily, for those...
Stephen Poleskie/Then & Now

Stephen Poleskie/Then & Now

Lorry passengers unloading in downtown Bo, Sierra Leone, Stephen Poleskie photo, 1973   Talking of Travels   by Stephen Poleskie A few weeks ago a good friend of mine, who I hadn’t seen in some time, stopped by the house for a chat. He had just gotten back...
Jose Rodeiro/Artist Interview

Jose Rodeiro/Artist Interview

Jose Rodeiro | Blue Bacchanalia Amazar |  24″ x 18″ *** Amnesis: Making the Invisible Visible (& vice versa)   An artful conversation between Jose Rodeiro and Mike Foldes O On Friday, September 13, 2018, poet and publisher Mike Foldes sat down...
Perle Besserman/Fiction

Perle Besserman/Fiction

Photo by Jeffrey Blum on Unsplash *** The Touch   by Perle Besserman K arin doesn’t like Carl’s best friend Benjy, and she doesn’t want to join them in a game of poker, but she doesn’t say so because Benjy (who has come to live with them after being thrown out of...
Bruce Nauman at MoMA

Bruce Nauman at MoMA

© Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Human nature/Life Death/Knows Doesn’t know | 1983 |  Neon tubing | 107 x 107 *** Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts.   Where: MOMA PS1 in Long Island City and The Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan When:...
Fred Roberts/Music: New in Europe

Fred Roberts/Music: New in Europe

Photo by Casey Horner on Unsplash *** Space, Time & Magical Sound Our intrepid music editor drops us at heaven’s door   by Fred Roberts Music Editor Introduction A wonderful therapy for the modern age is to blend out all the headlines and news stories...
Yoshiro Takayasu/Fiction

Yoshiro Takayasu/Fiction

A Kabuki theatre, coloured woodcut triptych by Utagawa Toyokuni, c. 1800; in the British Museum *** A Farce   by Yoshiro Takayasu (translated by Toshiya Kamei) M atsuko had been at loose ends ever since her only son left home and started college. Then Kiiko, a...
R. Benedito Ferrão/Creative Nonfiction

R. Benedito Ferrão/Creative Nonfiction

Photo by Javi Lorbada on Unsplash *** A Girl from Zanzibar, a Guy from Goa, and that Chap (from) Mercury   by R. Benedito Ferrão I had finally arrived, but the start of this journey of a lifetime had already begun badly. Journeying from the metropole – London –...

Ronald Primeau/Poetry Review

In the Measuring by Carol Smallwood Shanti Arts, 2018. Brunswick, Maine 116 pages, $14.95, paperback. Available on Amazon. Review by Ronald Primeau I t is often said that we cannot measure what is real, what actually counts or matters most. In The Measuring...
The Magician’s Trick/Bill Mesce, Jr.

The Magician’s Trick/Bill Mesce, Jr.

Photo by Rob Potter on Unsplash *** The Magician’s Trick: Telling, Not Showing   by Bill Mesce, Jr. Possibly one of the most cited maxims in writing is, “Show, don’t tell.”  And like most writing maxims, this is worthwhile more-often-than-not advice, but...