Rosalia Scalia/Fiction

MOTHER’S DRESSER   by Rosalia Scalia In the evening, after dinner, the grownups drink espresso laced with Sambuca or anisette, the aromas of licorice, of anise, of coffee rising up like extended fingers and mingling with whiffs of garlic, tomato, and basil,...
Then and Now/Stephen Poleskie

Then and Now/Stephen Poleskie

Steve Poleskie with his drawings that were “not art” in Rome exhibited at an art gallery in Manhattan. *** This Is Not Art. . . .   by Stephen Poleskie   Have you ever been insulted, I mean really insulted, and then felt good about it? You say that...

Three Poems by Trina Gaynon

Why Does the New Moon Hide?   Dogs barking at a skateboard rasping across the dark. The mother scolding her children to bed. A house where the wife is beaten. Tonight it is silent. May God keep her safe. The daughter leaving home, the door closed on her soft...
The Land of The Sleeping Buddha/Rishi Shankar

The Land of The Sleeping Buddha/Rishi Shankar

Photos by Rishi Shankar The snow laden peaks of  the Kanchendzonga (in the center) range create a shape like a man sleeping on his back. *** Into the land of The Sleeping Buddha   by Rishi Shankar   My memory strained hard To believe In the sweltering days under...
Interview with “Rosebud” co-founder Rod Clark

Interview with “Rosebud” co-founder Rod Clark

  *** Boss of “The Biggest Little…”   Rod Clark is co-founder and publisher of Rosebud, one of the longest-running independent literary anthologies published in the United States. By way of disclosure, one of his current cohorts in that...