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...

Painting Rust & Blood and Salsa – Tom Bradley Review

    SEMES EILAM ABRASAX Jonathan Penton’s  Painting Rust & Blood and Salsa     Reviewed by Tom Bradley   No man, be he a writer, politician or diplomat, can be considered fully developed until he has squarely addressed the Jewish...

Dzvinia Orlowsky/3 Poems

Invisible Departures                            —internally displaced persons, Crimea, 2015   How long before choosing to kiss an angel’s hand, to reach for heaven’s fruit-bearing boughs— the bee not disturbed too drunk— How swollen the seeds of heavy-headed...