Michael Meyerhofer/Poetry

THE MAN WHO INVENTED FIRE A hundred million nights before the first electric chair, some bored Neanderthal with the luck of a TV detective knocked two rocks together and made them spark. Glacial wind pawed the hide hung over the cave-maw. Maybe an infant cried in the...
Wendy Stewart/Creative Nonfiction

Wendy Stewart/Creative Nonfiction

Photo by Gage Skidmore, CC Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail  *** By the Seats of Our Pants   “. . . the sadness lives in the recognition that a life cannot matter.” Claudia Rankine,  “Cornel West makes the point. . . ” from Don’t Let...
W. P. Kinsella, In Memoriam

W. P. Kinsella, In Memoriam

Scene from Field of Dreams, based on W. P. “Bill” Kinsella’s novel, Shoeless Joe. *** W. P. Kinsella Slides Home   by John Smelcer Contributing editor I became friends with Canadian writer W. P. “Bill” Kinsella in the mid-1990s. Over the years, we have...

More Book Reviews: Wish for Amnesia & State of Grace

State of Grace:  The Joshua Elegies by Alexis Rhone Fancher Published by KYSO Flash Press, 2015 ISBN 978-0-98-627032-1 52 pages $20.00 “…not an abstract metaphor.” Review by Paul Sohar Death is a ready-made dramatic situation; the word alone carries...
Steve Poleskie/Then and Now

Steve Poleskie/Then and Now

Steve Poleskie works with Helen Frankenthaler *** Helen Frankenthaler’s Scarf   by Stephen Poleskie My article on Elaine de Kooning in the last issue of Ragazine apparently proved quite popular. So I will write about another person included in the Denver Museum’s...