In Memoriam: Camilla Sohar

    Only if… A Poetry of Loss and Remembrance Poems by Paul Sohar   W When Camilla passed away last spring at the age of 50 due to a medical accident, her family and many friends were shocked, especially her father who had been her principal...

Young Poets of Oneonta

Prompts and New Voices I n the autumn semester of 2018, in my creative writing course at SUNY Oneonta, my students endeavored to write “thematically linked” poems. We read Adele Kenny’s “A Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing at All,” my book, “Dante’s Unintended Flight,”...
Evan Mantyk/Interview

Evan Mantyk/Interview

(Wikipedia) A nineteenth-century painting by the English painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicting the poetess Sappho gazing on in admiration as the poet Alcaeus plays the lyre. (Wikipedia) *** Classical Poets Have a Life of Their Own An interview with Evan Mantyk...

Real Life/Poetry Review

Taking the Temperature of the 21st Century Climate 6×9 Paperback 232 Pages Published by Omnidawn, 2018 ISBN-10: 1632430576 ISBN-13: 978-1632430571 Price: $14.62 on Amazon   Review by Emily Vogel Poetry Editor T he immanance of the speaker in Julie Carr’s new...
Perle Besserman/Fiction

Perle Besserman/Fiction

Photo by Jeffrey Blum on Unsplash *** The Touch   by Perle Besserman K arin doesn’t like Carl’s best friend Benjy, and she doesn’t want to join them in a game of poker, but she doesn’t say so because Benjy (who has come to live with them after being thrown out of...