L’avventura: A long poem by Dwayne Barrick
How dedicated we were then!
For Il Deserto Rosso Carlo Di Palma my cinematographer
had every leaf along a line of trees that would serve
as a distant scrim painted grey but only to be
realized while the sun was somewhat blind
yet on the day of shooting after days of painting
the sun was bright. He cancelled the shot.
Tricks of Lights/Poetry Book Review
REVIEW Tricks of Light: New and Selected Poems by Thad Rutkowski, (New York: Great Weather for Media, 2020) Publication date: April 6, 2020 $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-9981440-7-8 Paperback, 100 pages By Jim Feast Readers know from poems in Thad Rutkowski’s delightful...
Alan Britt
IT’S NOT OVER TILL WE SAY IT’S OVER That’s why they’re called safety matches; duck your head before striking. That’s when the tarnished Indian elephant coin bank with iron-stripped flathead screw divorced both ribcages spilling wheat pennies, buffaloes, Mercury...
Miriam O’Neal/Poetry Book Review
Carolyn Welch The Garden of Fragile Beings (2019) Finishing Line Press https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-garden-of-fragile-beings-by-carolyn-welch/ ISBN:978-1- 63534-736-4 6” X 9”, paperback, 88 pages ($19.99) A...
Laura Boss/Poetry
THIS THANKSGIVING This Thanksgiving my husband and I went to Atlanta to spend Thursday through Sunday with his very caring daughter Jim and I had gotten up at 3:20 a.m. and were at the airport by 5 My new husband ( not so different from...
Lucy Nell Stewart/Featured Artist: Video
Reality Check Artist Statement “I find great sustenance in the mother ship and all her elements. Coming from a classical and avant-garde theatre arts background I carry with me the proscenium to composite new worlds with my beloved and always surprising...
John Michael Flynn/Travel in Russia’s Far East
Dehydrated, constipated, stiff in the neck, I look around Novy airport and spot travelers who appear to suffer similar discomforts. I like knowing we share these. The room isn’t heated well. Yet none appear cold. I’ve learned that…
In The Trees/Fiction
Photo by Matthew T Rader on Unsplash *** In the Trees by Britnee Meiser Contributor t was the summer of the cicadas. Usually I liked to walk around barefoot, to lie in the grass beneath the great oaks...
The Ruined, Blessed Stairs/Donna Vitucci, Creative Nonfiction
The Ruined, Blessed Stairs by Donna D. Vitucci e of course desire their kisses, we cry out for them in dreams, try to grab up the mists before they fade. Sheet hems and ant trails in the dirt,...
Our Back Yard
More in our Back Yard: A few of the many, many people whose contributions to culture in the Southern Tier of Upstate NY, make Broome, Tioga and Tompkins counties a great place to live…
Our Back Yard: Mick McMahon/Poetry
Death of a Dandelion The day I died was not just one day. It was a year, maybe two, maybe three – It was slow. It was painful And it went unnoticed. The sun still rose. The day I died, I did not go coughing. There was no sobbing, no wheezing, I did not die...
Our Back Yard: Bertha Rogers/Anglo-Saxon Riddle Poems
Uncommon Creatures Perfect Paperback: 216 pages Publisher: Six Swans Artist Editions; First edition (April 1, 2019) Language: English ISBN-10: 1893389057 ISBN-13: 978-1893389052...
Our Back Yard: Keery Hastings/Poetry
Body Buried Body burned into a wooden box Or maybe gently paced into a casket; Dug just a bit too high underground. Dressed in a last pair of clothes; Hands to chest – A lonely name ground into pink marbled stone; Settled under the next available lot – The leaves from...
Our Back Yard/Poetry Review by Emily Vogel
Since Sunday BRITTANY TOMASELLI Distributed for Omnidawn Publishing, Inc. 48 pages | 5 1/2 x 7 | © 2019 Paper $13.95ISBN: 9781632430731Published October 2019 By Emily Vogel Poetry Editor Brittany Tomaselli’s most recent collection of poems, “Since Sunday”...
Our Back Yard: Then & Now, by Stephen Poleskie
Taking Another Fall by Stephen Poleskie Columnist t the end of my previous column I had implied that I might write about some of my other falls in the next issue. At the time I did not know that...
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 http://presapress.com/the-number-5-is-always-suspect-collaborative-poems ISBN: none (6” x 9”, paperback, 36 pages ($8.00) ...
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, inhumanly rude to say man...
Intercourse in Absentia/Cris Mazza
When Hugh Hefner died last year, the eulogies and obituaries gave him credit for starting the sexual revolution. Apparently the free and easy enjoyment of sex only needed someone (a man) to “start” it, and then it would happen. But what of those for whom it didn’t?
Lovers and Fighters/by Con Chapman
Wilde and Queensberry’s son Lord Alfred Douglas, though they were associated in the public mind as lovers, each preferred sex with boys. By offering himself up as a martyr in the Oedipal struggle between the boxing enthusiast Queensberry and his effeminate son, Wilde made sex between males socially acceptable — within limits.
Cynthia Karalla’s “Read Rose”
The magic of Karalla’s project lies in the play between a handful of visual elements, which allows to grasp at a single glance the multilayered complexities of society…
That Girl/Fiction by Kuzuha Makino
An abused young mother finds safety with her former teacher.
Dewitt Henry/Interview
DEWITT HENRY's "SWEET MARJORAM" An interview with the author by Jennifer Acker ENNIFER ACKER: How did this essay collection develop? It’s remarkably unified in tone and in approach to the subjects, so...
Carol Smallwood: Interviewing the Interviewer
MF: You once mentioned to me that you find editors are the unsung heroes of “the business” we are in. Can you elaborate on that?
CS: Editors are behind the scenes, helping others look good. We are there to help and must put our own need to write on hold.
Pyro: A memoir of California/Creative Nonfiction
Photo by Andy Watkins on Unsplash *** Pyro: a memoir of California by Gregory Von Dare y workday day began at 6:00 a.m. After the clock-in, my first task was to open a six-foot tall safe. That hulk was...