Five More Books/V12N4

          A Prague Spring, Before and After (Poetry) by Michael Salcman Evening Street Press, 201 $25.00, 106 pages ISBN: 978-1-937347-33-8   A Prague Spring, Before and After  Reviewed by Charles Rammelkamp As William Faulkner wrote in...

Marina Soler/Poetry

Last Deceptions   Regardless of how fond and fondling stars inculcate the dark there is yet to press the wax seal against each enveloped space— gaps  infinite and intimate a woman standing by a window, her back to the audience of antiques:   everything...

Michael Meyerhofer/Poetry

THE MAN WHO INVENTED FIRE A hundred million nights before the first electric chair, some bored Neanderthal with the luck of a TV detective knocked two rocks together and made them spark. Glacial wind pawed the hide hung over the cave-maw. Maybe an infant cried in the...
Wendy Stewart/Creative Nonfiction

Wendy Stewart/Creative Nonfiction

Photo by Gage Skidmore, CC Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail  *** By the Seats of Our Pants   “. . . the sadness lives in the recognition that a life cannot matter.” Claudia Rankine,  “Cornel West makes the point. . . ” from Don’t Let...
W. P. Kinsella, In Memoriam

W. P. Kinsella, In Memoriam

Scene from Field of Dreams, based on W. P. “Bill” Kinsella’s novel, Shoeless Joe. *** W. P. Kinsella Slides Home   by John Smelcer Contributing editor I became friends with Canadian writer W. P. “Bill” Kinsella in the mid-1990s. Over the years, we have...