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   According to Ironman triathlon mythology Germans are most enthusiastic; but no matter where we come from all...

T.R. Hummer/Poetry

Trees of America I have seen these trees before, mostly in paintings    from the 19th century: that one is a Thomas Cole, Not really an oak; and this black walnut, though little    does it know, is in fact a fine example of an Eliza Pratt Greatorex. I never took a...
Fabia Wong/In search of:

Fabia Wong/In search of:

    In search of:  Part II France: A look back at a history of migration   by Fabia Wong Contributing Columnist In the late autumn of last year, my husband and I cycled along the Canal du Midi, a 17th Century feat of engineering that traverses 240 km of...

Album Art/Michael Goldstein

*** Album Cover Artist Portfolio: Mick Haggerty   by Mike Goldstein, Curator, AlbumCoverHallofFame.comJuly, 2018 Every once in a while, I get to pinch myself with pleasure when I realize that I’ve been given the opportunity to meet and interview many of the...

Visit to the Old Country/Fred Roberts

  What You Haven’t Heard About Poland   by Fred RobertsMusic Editor Intro Every time I visit Poland I invariably discover “new” albums from the golden era of the Polish musical scene, the 60s, 70s and 80s. During the Cold War the Iron Curtain may have...

Ocean Ghosts/Ben White

Ocean Ghosts by Ben White Contributing Writer I could feel the ghosts; the ocean ghosts. They were ghosts of sea-going culture, ghosts of history, ghosts of traditions, ghosts of ships, and ghosts of war; the ghosts of men surrounding the cruise as the MORGENTAHU...
Sherrie Harvey/Creative Nonfiction

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

Rich Ives/Flash Nonfiction

Murphy Photo *** One Perception of Grandeur Passes Quietly into Another   by Rich IvesContributing Writer In the ceiling above the sky’s ceiling, the fallen seed cannot see the flower. I’m reading a worthless book by candlelight when an owl asking me to ignore it...

Ewa Mazierska/Travel

    The Scarves from Candolim   by Ewa Mazierska Contributing Writer From my holiday in Candolim in India I brought home fifteen scarves. They were sold to me by Lisa, a beach vendor, working on a strip of beach belonging to our hotel. Her other job was...

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...

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...

Suchita Bhhatia/On Filmmaking in India

  Reaching the Door     by Suchita Bhhatia Contributing Writer Last night a filmmaker friend of mine informed me that he was contemplating suicide. No, he hasn’t killed himself yet! And no, this is not a joke. There have been incidents of drunk...

Tom Zatar Kay/Holy Shit: A 3-hour Poem

ZATARS-COMPUTER-VOICE-3-AND-A-HALF-HOUR-POEM “Holy Shit” Metaphysical Poetry Readings prose monologues euphony BOOMING onomatopoeia Computer Oral Art. Excerpted from the book “Holy Shit” By Tom ZataR Kay. “Human Robot Poetry” When...