Michelle Terry/Creative Nonfiction

Michelle Terry/Creative Nonfiction

Valerie Brown Photo   Pickin’ Wildflowers   by Michelle Terry   My Grandma Leona was not a classic Depression-era beauty. Her harvest-browned skin and murder of jet-black hair were an arrant contrast to her delicate, shrinking-violet counterparts...
James Palombo/Politics

James Palombo/Politics

by James Palombo Politics Editor I grew up in Endicott, New York, a small town that had a big-time connection to the corporate world. This connection was International Business Machines – in fact IBM had its largest manufacturing plant just a few minutes’ walk from my...

Macaulay G. Glynn/Four Poems

Eating Grapes in Church In the morning I watch my nana arrange two sets of vitamins on folded napkins before breakfast. Soft fish oil capsules gleam like a spray of jewels. Pop swallows each amber ellipse with orange juice. Before church, Nana puts on loud pink...

Three Poems by Jean C. Howard

HANDING OF THE FLAG (Services of William Reese)   At the grave site, as each star is swallowed by a fold or white-glove tuck, the flag moves, slowly, precisely, each tug calculated and rehearsed.   The gatherers are silent, hearing each move, though...

On Location/France

Vertiges animaliers de Tomi Ungerer   Tomi Ungerer: Elephants, Whales & Kangaroos, On exhibit in Nieves, Zurich   by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret Contributing editor Le caractère « tactile » du dessin d’Ungerer permet de comprendre l’élaboration d’une pensée...