Monique Quintana/Fiction

counter girl by Monique Quintana There was a cute girl that checked us in at the counter. I liked her dimples the best, the way they dipped. I wanted to stick my pinky finger in them. They were so cute. She gave us the key for room 119. She was the best thing about...

Charles Edward Brooks/Fiction

FORTY WHACKS   by Charles Edward Brooks My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps,  drums and tambours I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. —Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet  ...
Ann Cefola/Cindy Hochman-Editor Interview

Ann Cefola/Cindy Hochman-Editor Interview

    How to Save Your Manuscript Before It Leaves Your Laptop: An Interview with Cindy Hochman   by Ann Cefola Cindy Hochman peers over a manuscript. On the first page, she has already discovered a typo, a punctuation error, and a malaprop. She feels a...

Donovan Borger/Poetry

Festival Through the earthworm scent of fresh-broken sod plowed in a wide ring where the city’s walls would go, families gathered to see the settlement founded by the boy to whom a wolf gave her milk, the man who killed his brother with a shovel to see Rome built....
Book Reviews V12N4/July-August 2016

Book Reviews V12N4/July-August 2016

This Amazing Cage of Light by Martine Bellen ISBN-13: 978-1941550328 – Paper/$18.00 Spuyten Duyvil: 2015 www.spuytenduyvil.net   This Amazing Cage of Light Review by Tom DeBeauchamp   In “Cuccina,” one of the poem’s in her new collection,...