Ben Myers/Poetry

 Three Poems   BENEDICTION: For My Father   In the gravel driveway beside the house of peeling paint there is a motorcycle, but it does not belong to you. The bike is black, a dragon painted on its gas tank, tail entwining a woman in fur bikini.   You are getting...
Remembering Nick Kolumban

Remembering Nick Kolumban

Nick Kolumban ** “inside a Yankee coat…”     by Paul Sohar Contributing Writer   There was a poetry reading in New Brunswick last June 14th to celebrate what would have been Nick Kolumban’s 78th birthday. Anne, his widow, was there,...

Jeffrey C. Alfier/Poetry

Farm Near a Bend in River Tummel   There was a shed here once. If you look close, you can see grass ghosting its outline.   Any tool the day required could be found here. Tack, as well: bits, bridles, a harness or two.   Never mind weather; some days I...
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...

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...