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...

BOOKS and More Books/September 2017

    Floating Tales by Jeff Friedman ISBN 978-1-941196-46-5 $21.95, paper. Plume Editions, MadHat Press Asheville NC Plume Editions   Floating Tales by Jeff Friedman With an introduction by Daniel Lawless   Reviewed by William Doreski Although the...