Summer Reading for the Fall

    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...

Carol Smallwood/Book Review

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...
Greg Stewart- On Location/New York

Greg Stewart- On Location/New York

  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...

Holly Day/3 poems

     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...

Problem of Empire/Jim Palombo

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,...