Summer’s Over, but Don’t Let That Stop You… from burying yourself in these fine reads by Mike Foldes Took awhile to get enough traction to settle down and actually plow through anything but a few hundred emails containing...
How to Write Classical Poetry: A Guide to Forms, Techniques, and Meaning Evan Mantyk, Connie Phillips, co-editors Classical Poets Publishing, 2017; 156 pages; illustrated; ISBN-10: 1546853316 Paperback, $19.99 on Amazon The classical forms of poetry, lodestars...
The Final Launch of “6×6”, the Poetry Periodical from Ugly Duckling Press Headlights beam along the industrial part of Flushing Ave as I walk through Ridgewood yet again. The 24-hour tire repair shop sits alongside the Chinese...
Escalation if I lay still enough long enough on the hard-packed snow, on the frozen mud and ice will my body warm up the ground enough to trick the tiny seeds into thinking that it’s spring? if we lie here together on the same patch of earth will our combined...
A Problem of Empire by Jim Palombo Politics Editor No doubt the U.S. is facing a myriad of national and international problems. Included in the mix are issues tied to equality, racism, crime, immigration, personal and public health, infrastructure rebuilding,...
Donald Trump’s Addiction to Violence The president has normalized violence by emboldening the idea that it is the only viable political response to social problems. BY HENRY GIROUX Donald Trump is addicted to violence. It is the principal force that shapes his...
Marco Maggi, Tod Lippy, Esopus and a Basement Booked As I entered the Jefferson Public Market Branch of the New York Public Library on 10th Street and 6th Avenue on the night of the reception for “Drawing Set”, I heard a bustling vibration of voices...
Floating Tales by Jeff Friedman ISBN 978-1-941196-46-5 $21.95, paper. Plume Editions, MadHat Press Asheville NC Plume Editions Floating Tales by Jeff Friedman With an introduction by Daniel Lawless Reviewed by William Doreski Although the...
SEMES EILAM ABRASAX Jonathan Penton’s Painting Rust & Blood and Salsa Reviewed by Tom Bradley No man, be he a writer, politician or diplomat, can be considered fully developed until he has squarely addressed the Jewish...
A Crack in the Sidewalk Barbara Rosenthal — NYC, Sept 1, 2017. My monthly column A Crack in the Sidewalk is by this first sentence here now, back upon the Earth. Greetings, dear readers! The column logo is what it looked like when it first launched, in...
Invisible Departures —internally displaced persons, Crimea, 2015 How long before choosing to kiss an angel’s hand, to reach for heaven’s fruit-bearing boughs— the bee not disturbed too drunk— How swollen the seeds of heavy-headed...
An Open Letter from Mia Hanson My name is Mia, and this May 18th I will be celebrating my seventeenth wedding anniversary to an artist of considerable integrity who not only delights me as a person, but inspires me daily with his uniquely visionary works of art. I met...
Nowadays sets up for the outdoor screening of the documentary, “What Lies Upstream?” Screening: “What Lies Upstream” Upon entering Nowadays, I am greeted by the familiar sight of young women in high-waist shorts and tattooed...
Listen to the Music: On the road in South Korea with David Gittens David Gittens is as close to a Renaissance man as one can get these days, when you include the facts that he’s an artist, musician, designer, inventor, and for many years an ambassador for peace...
Still from the video, Route 4 Artist Interview The Strange and Good Vibrations of Lucy Nell Stewart with Mike Foldes Ragazine: You’ve had a varied and colorful background with a focus on dance from the time you were a child in California. Was dance something...
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