Ready or Not: Film review by Madeline Dulabaum

Ready or Not: Film review by Madeline Dulabaum

PHOTO: COURTESY OF 20TH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION       Ready or Not: Here Come the Feminists   by Madeline Dulabaum Film Reviewer Aslender young woman dressed in a formal white wedding gown stands at the center of the posters for the 2019 horror flick...

The Days of the Untitled Mona

The Days of the Untitled Mona The transformation from the everyday person into a supreme being   DAY 7   The Mono Lisa: Politics of Sexuality By Pauline Joelle Panetta Edited by Dorothy Louise Zinn The object of analysis central to this essay is Cynthia...

The Number Five… /Book Review

          Bob Heman and Cindy Hochman The Number 5 Is Always Suspect — Collaborative Poems Presa Press, 2019 The Number 5 Is Always Suspect – Collaborative Poems ISBN: none (6” x 9”, paperback, 36 pages ($8.00)     THE NUMBER 5...

Henry Giroux/Political Commentary

  Depoliticization: Deadly Weapon of Neoliberal Fascism   by Henry Giroux Contributing Writer Increasingly, Americans live in an era in which every aspect of society displays symptoms of political, economic and ethical impoverishment. This condition extends...

Marc Darnell/Poetry

Gadget Man is a juicy machine– a talking sack of fluids, no soul, I mean no aura, no spirit seen. If you ask druids if man is a juicy machine they’ll say he’s a stream in sync with all the gods, but no soul.  I mean well, though I seem cold,...

His Back Yard: The City Farmer/by Don Wolfe

  by Donald Wolfe Urban Agrarian What transpires in the mind of a 73-year-old person to decide that it would be a good idea to plant corn in an unused patch of dirt in the middle of Broadway in NYC and become a city farmer? Beats the hell out of me!  The goal for...
OUR BACK YARD: Na Chainkua  (Chainky) Reindorf/Artist Interview

OUR BACK YARD: Na Chainkua (Chainky) Reindorf/Artist Interview

Chainky Reindorf at Brunelli Gallery   Artist updates traditions, blends cultures in her work   Artist Statement My work is informed and inspired by the visual language of West African textiles and the custom of using these textiles as a means of...
Deisboeck’s World

Deisboeck’s World

What’s So Funny?                                                                      ...

Intercourse in Absentia/Cris Mazza

  Intercourse in Absentia   By Cris Mazza Contributing Writer   Apparently I have not lived the kind of life a writer needs. I have not, nor has anyone in my immediate family, recovered from an addiction, nor from a catastrophic injury or disease. I’ve...
Lovers and Fighters/by Con Chapman

Lovers and Fighters/by Con Chapman

Photo by Hermes Rivera on Unsplash *** Lovers and Fighters: Not as Far Apart as They Seem   by Con Chapman Contributing Writer In 338 B.C., a troop of soldiers known as The Sacred Band of Thebes fought valiantly but were vanquished by the Macedonians along with...
Cynthia Karalla’s “Read Rose”

Cynthia Karalla’s “Read Rose”

Read Rose, A work in process *** The Flowering of a Socio-Political Statement Read Rose, by Cynthia Karalla   by Pauline Joelle Reviewer Thousands of pages of the notorious Mueller Report, combined with a variety of recycled materials, give birth to these...
That Girl/Fiction by Kuzuha Makino

That Girl/Fiction by Kuzuha Makino

Photo by Masaaki Komori on Unsplash *** That Girl   by Kuzuha Makino Translated by Toshiya Kamei   Iwas shopping for dinner at a local supermarket. Chinatsu was bawling, but I couldn’t calm her down. Akira-kun wanted to eat meat for dinner, so I’d withdrawn...

Dewitt Henry/Interview

DEWITT HENRY’s “SWEET MARJORAM” An interview with the author by Jennifer Acker   JENNIFER ACKER:  How did this essay collection develop? It’s remarkably unified in tone and in approach to the subjects, so I wondered if it was conceived as a...

Carol Smallwood: Interviewing the Interviewer

  Interviewing the Interviewer An e-talk with Carol Smallwood   by Mike Foldes Managing Editor Mike Foldes: Carol, please tell us a bit about your background and how you came to writing.  Carol Smallwood: My first book came from teachers asking where to get...
Bill Wolak/The Joy of Collage

Bill Wolak/The Joy of Collage

Everything Moonlight Promised *** Artist Spotlight Making Connections Artist’s Statement The joy of collage is finding the endless connections between seemingly unrelated things. In some collages, the juxtaposition of ordinary with the delirious diversity of dream...