Shane Carreon/Poetry

Kinilaw  One of these days I am going to ask my father how to make kinilaw, raw anchovies or tuna steeped in vinegar and coconut milk, the pieces eaten by hand from a communal bowl and eaten only with people you trust. Each anchovy held by its head, deftly deboned by...

Dave Roskos/Poetry

GATEKEEPERS If I say “Lock out the gatekeepers!” does it make me a gatekeeper? Some gates slam shut so fast they can sever a limb Other gates more lackadaisical, hinged on whims Saint Peter, the ultimate gatekeeper! (Heaven must be quite a club) Robert Frost said...

Emily Vogel reviews “Day Counter”

    Motherhood: An Erasure of the Self? A Review of “Day Counter, by Sara Mumolo Paperback: 80 pages Publisher: Omnidawn (October 30, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1632430606 ISBN-13: 978-1632430601 Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.3 x 8.9 inches   By...

Mark Blickley/Translated From the Portuguese

  Translated From the Portuguese This past Fall I co-curated an exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal, “Tributaries,” that opened on Sept. 30th and ran for three months under the auspices of the international artist’s cooperative, Urban Dialogues....

Larissa Shmailo

    Sly Bang / hybrid fiction by Larissa Shmailo You knew this is what the world really looked like all along.   A review by RW Spryszak ISBN-13: 978-1947980983 Spuyten Duyvil – New York 2018 198 pages I have a problem with what is sometimes known as...

Elliott Wilner/Creative Nonfiction

Alamy Stock Photo, Trinity Mirror, Mirrorpix   STREET CRIME:   Memories of Life on 28th Street   by Elliott Wilner Guest Contributor In the 1940s, when I was a young boy, 28th Street Northwest was a nondescript street in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of...
Songs for Alexandra

Songs for Alexandra

Songs for Alexandra   Selected by Fred Roberts Music Editor   Category: Autobiographical songs Song Title: Alexandra Artist: Allie X Year: 2016 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4pEWMx3YQ4   Category: Russian film music Song Title: Александра Artist: Sergey...

Barbara Rosenthal/A Crack in the Sidewalk

  FLYING HIGH, LYING LOW: The Ups and Downs of an International Art Career   by Barbara Rosenthal Contributing Columnist Northern Hemisphere, March-April, 2019 March 1, 2019, BERLIN — Whew! I am typing the first draft of this on Feb 10 while ingesting...
Galanty Miller/Re-Tweets

Galanty Miller/Re-Tweets

  Photo by Clark Tibbs on Unsplash   by Galanty Miller Columnist I truly believe that Internet pornography is ruining society… but improving the Internet./ At least my son died doing what he loved. (He loved dying.)/ First day of school?!?! Then where the...
Prelude to Cuba and Dallas

Prelude to Cuba and Dallas

Wikimedia Commons/Creative Commons/Republic of Korea Armed Forces South Korean Air Force F-4E   Prelude to Cuba and Dallas   By Bill Vernon President Kennedy was coming to Bogue Field standing with the other lower level NCOs on our half-hour trip to Bogue,...
Dominique Robin/Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret

Dominique Robin/Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret

    “Dominique Robin: Stone Puzzles from Tuscany’s Valdarno and N.Y.’s Hudson Valley” Location The Italian Academy 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027 (Just south of 118th Street) Event Date Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm...
Anna Claire Warfield/Artist Interview

Anna Claire Warfield/Artist Interview

Womb *** Traditionally grounded, breaking ground   Fabric artist Anna Warfield explains her work and how she came to it…   E-Interview with Mike Foldes   When did you become interested in art? I’ve been interested in art for as long as I can...

Martino Marangoni/Photography

Rebuilding / My Days in New York 1959-2018 by Martino Marangoni Publisher: The Eriskay Connection (December 18, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 9492051346 ISBN-13: 978-9492051349 Paperback: 240 pages Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.6 x 10.9 inches € 40.00 € 45.00/Signed...

Carol Smallwood Interviews Judith Skillman

    Judith Skillman’s poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of the Web, the UK Kit Award, and is included in Best Indie Verse of New England to mention just a few honors of this prominent American poet and translator. Her work has appeared in many...