Our Back Yard: Mike Foldes/Poetry

          Dreaming in Hungarian Miskolc, Eger, Budapest, letcho, goulash, paprikash, nem, egan, dobos torte, smooth roads, fenceless fields ideally suited for horse-drawn wagons to leave wakes of  broken grasses, transitory roadways for...

The Number Five… /Book Review

          Bob Heman and Cindy Hochman The Number 5 Is Always Suspect — Collaborative Poems Presa Press, 2019 The Number 5 Is Always Suspect – Collaborative Poems ISBN: none (6” x 9”, paperback, 36 pages ($8.00)     THE NUMBER 5...

Marc Darnell/Poetry

Gadget Man is a juicy machine– a talking sack of fluids, no soul, I mean no aura, no spirit seen. If you ask druids if man is a juicy machine they’ll say he’s a stream in sync with all the gods, but no soul.  I mean well, though I seem cold,...

Carol Smallwood: Interviewing the Interviewer

  Interviewing the Interviewer An e-talk with Carol Smallwood   by Mike Foldes Managing Editor Mike Foldes: Carol, please tell us a bit about your background and how you came to writing.  Carol Smallwood: My first book came from teachers asking where to get...

The Memory of Objects/Book Review

  Bad Harvest (ISBN-13: 978-0887486388) by Dzvinia Orlowsky Carnegie Mellon University Press https://www.cmu.edu/universitypress/ 5.5” x 8.5” paperback, 80 pages $15.95   THE MEMORY OF OBJECTS Review by Olena Jennings   A poem can depict a memory the...