86 Sonnets/Book Review

86 Sonnets/Book Review

            86 Sonnets for the 21st Century Mary Barnet art by Richard E. Schiff Paperback: 134 pages Casa de Snapdragon, 2015 Avaliable at Amazon       86 Sonnets for the 21st Century   Reviewed by Carol Smallwood   I...
Then and Now/Steve Poleskie

Then and Now/Steve Poleskie

Peter Moore Photo The author, Poleskie (left), with Larry Zox and Larry Rivers on Union Square, NYC, 1968.       Motorcycle Memories By Stephen Poleskie The historically cold winter has finally left us. As it’s warmer now, we have the windows open; no air...
86 Sonnets/Book Review

After Birth/Book Review

    After Birth, fiction by Elisa Albert   Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015   ISBN-10: 0544273737   ISBN-13: 978-0544273733   Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches, hardback   208 pages, $23.00       After Birth...

Tony Magistrale/Poetry

A Short Treatise on Time “There are days when the fear of death illuminates everything.”           —Ted Kooser I’m weary of bemoaning so many lost hours,   as if we ever had any choice other than a one-way ticket with a time-stamp securely in place,   like...

Stephen Kaplan/Poetry

    THE TROLLEY CAR     All the windows broken snow drifted into the interior. Some demon had left it on six feet of track some seventy years ago. Demons function efficiently during the winter.   It was seen and not seen. When eyes walked past...