“The Simpson Case” According to Mae, by Allen Forrest

“The Simpson Case” According to Mae, by Allen Forrest

          About Allen Forrest: Cartoonist/Illustrator. Born in Canada and bred in the U.S., Allen Forrest has worked in many mediums: computer graphics, theater, digital music, film, video, drawing and painting. You can read more about him in...
Michael Jantzen’s Energetic Art

Michael Jantzen’s Energetic Art

From Michael Jantzen’s Energetic Art project   At Play in the Fields of the World   Michael Jantzen says of his work, “I want to reinvent the built environment in order to extend the reach of consciousness.” That underlying sentiment is the foundation...
David Gittens/S. Korea Mon Amour

David Gittens/S. Korea Mon Amour

Photo: Kisoon Choi “Only Hearts” Art/Peace Project Sharing the peacemaking visions of 3,500 Sarasota, Florida students with students in Chungju, South Korea   Taking our Florida-grown art/peace project to Chungju, South Korea, as a featured segment of my artist’s...
Barbara Rosenthal/A Crack in the Sidewalk

Barbara Rosenthal/A Crack in the Sidewalk

  A Crack in the Sidewalk: Journaling   by Barbara Rosenthal — NYC, Nov. 1, 2017. Welcome back again to this monthly column. Looks like the way it began last month is the way it will go every month. That particular incidents will trigger the topics, some of...

Books for Long Nights/Reviews

  About Consciousness by Heath Brougher (ISBN #1974100529) 2017 46 pages,  12″ x 8.5″, paperback, full color ($14.99) Alien Buddha Press. Middleton, DE (https://alienbuddhapress.com/)   About Consciousness by Heath Brougher Review by Eli T. Mond...
Alexis Rhone Fancher/Fiction

Alexis Rhone Fancher/Fiction

Unsplash: Henning Witzel photo *** His Full Attention   by Alexis Rhone Fancher Eduardo’s exceptionally large. When he drives too fast up the mountain, yanking me to him on the curves, his body is an invitation. I keep my eyes on the road, a silver ribbon, illuminated...
At the Năvodari Camp/Daniel Dragomirescu

At the Năvodari Camp/Daniel Dragomirescu

Novodari, Romania. Booking.com photo ••• At the Năvodari Camp   For Irina, who went to the Năvodari camp by Daniel Dragomirescu One of the dreams I had cherished for a long time when I was a child was to go the mountains or the seaside, since in the places I had...
On Location/Greg Stewart’s NY

On Location/Greg Stewart’s NY

Greg Stewart photo Jack and Odetta, Stage Left 2  Odetta Hartman Rocks the House at Rough Trade   Review and photos by Greg Stewart   Odetta Hartman and Jack Inslee take the stage under blue lights at Rough Trade in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  Jack fills a long...

Fred Bendheim’s “Shapings”

  Artist Statement: My current work spans the boundaries between painting and sculpture. They are abstract, shaped paintings and relief sculptures, usually on wood or PVC, which I call “shapings”. My subjects are usually abstract: they are made of...

Prisms, Particles, and Refractions/Book Review

Prisms, Particles, and Refractions by Carol Smallwood Finishing Line Press, 2017 85 pp. $18.99 www.finishinglinepress.com   Reviewed by Judith Skillman Carol Smallwood’s new collection, Prisms, Particles, and Refractions is at once playful and serious. Her work...

Richard Livermore/Poetry

The following poem by Richard Livermore is excerpted from his book in progress “New Selected Poems”, which will be published in Bibliotheca Universalis, a series of chapbooks organized and published by Daniel Dragomirescu in Bucharest, Romania.    by...
Greg Stewart/On-Location: New York

Greg Stewart/On-Location: New York

Celebrating Rumi: An Alchemical Feast of Food Poetry and Music by Greg Stewart On a blustery autumn night in the Lower East Side I found my way into a birthday celebration for the beloved Sufi poet, Rumi. In the 13th century this great lyricist and spiritualist lived...
Around New York/Greg Stewart

Around New York/Greg Stewart

Princess Nokia and Suzi Analogue Rock the House at Villain by Gregory Stewart “My name is Suzi Analogue! We gonn vibe tonight!” A whirlwind of light beams out and around the crowd. A wall of sound comes through the two large towers of speakers hanging just...
Around New York/Greg Stewart

Around New York/Greg Stewart

A Late Summer Day On Governor’s Island   by Greg Stewart A  beautiful Saturday morning sky opens up to me as I drive through the crowded, hectic streets of Brooklyn from my home in Bushwick to the pier on the Western edge of the peninsula. The sun creeps slowly,...

Notes from Wheeler Hill/Michael Czarnecki

  Introduction to “Notes from Wheeler Hill”   As I sit writing this I’m nearly 3,000 miles away from Wheeler Hill, NY. When I look up I see Pacific waves crashing against numerous rocks and sea stacks beyond the 250-foot cliff that lies just a few dozen...