Hungry Words/Book Review
HUNGRY WORDS By R. Bremner Alien Buddha Press Erie, PA 2018 $9.89 Paperback: 62 pages. 6”x9” ISBN # 9781724991140 Review by Richard Paul Bremner’s Hungry Words takes us on a trip through city streets, suburban sidewalks, and several minds in varying degrees of health...
Luxembourg/Book Review
LUXEMBOURG by Stephen Oliver Greywacke Press, Canberra 2018 112pp., $24.95 Reviewed by Nicholas Reid hough I’ve never met Stephen Oliver in person, I’ve been reviewing his poetry for nearly twenty...
Poet Drew Pisarra, with Clarinda Harriss
INFINITY STANDING UP Capturing Fire Press, Washington, DC ISBN: 978-1-7328759-1-3, 58 pages, $10.00 Review by Clarinda Harriss t was a lucky day for me a review copy of Drew Pisarra’s stunning sonnet...
A Hobbit/Fiction by Alf Marks
A Hobbit By Alfred Marks ave comes on the Cronulla Street Mall, hoping the kids will remember what day this is. The early breakfast punters are dotted under their umbrellas. Daughter Zoe likes...
Poena Damni/Poetry Review
Poena Damni Review/essay by Toti O’Brien Dimitris Lyacos Poena Damni (2018) (Translated by Shorsha Sullivan) Shoestring Press http://www.shoestring-press.com/ ISBN: 978-1-912524-01-3 (3 book box set, $19.95) 1. Who is the man in Z213? The...
Good Boy/Fiction by Eric DePriester
Good Boy by Eric DePriester tuart grazed the open bar at his high school reunion, forcing conversation long enough to catch the bartender’s eye. As he ordered a scotch on the rocks, a familiar voice...
Thomas Merton’s Pulitzer Nod/John Smelcer & Paul Pearson
Thomas Merton was a man of singular faith, conviction, and humility. He was a vociferous advocate of social justice, racial equality, and peace and a staunch critic of America’s war in Vietnam. Despite the unnerving fact that people wanted to harm him (Merton once wrote how men who planned to waylay him would stake out the dirt road to his hermitage), he remained resolute, like his friend Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Ghost of Berry Creek/Environment
In early July, when I first saw the creek, there had been plenty of water downstream from the collection site. But by August, flow had been reduced to a point where all the water was now being captured by the pipe. Below the intake, the streamside wetland plants had shriveled, or never had a chance to sprout, or had simply disappeared over the years from the altered habitat.
From the “The APNEA Poems”, by Bill Yarrow
I was strapped for cache so I called my friend Paolowho wears Ecuadorian gray and prefers Celine to Celanand asked him how to juggle all the crap life was throwing my way,and he said, …
Brian Cullman on W. S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin: In memoriam by Brian Cullman Contributing Writer y parents had dinner with Robert Frost once. They said he stared at his lamb chops angrily, stopped, fixed his eyes on them, and...
Lucinda Watson/Poetry
MURMURATION “A rare gathering of starlings that looks like dancing clouds” passed over my head this morning like a shiver in a graveyard. Murmuration The sky darkened, my dogs slowed their pace, and I still struggled to hold up the dike against the flood of winter. My...
Joe Weil/Poetry
The flowers offend me because they are filthy-- their roots scraggly with dirt And the sky offends me because it is bigger than I and how dare that sky dwarf me? And you offend me because... well just because. I think you like flowers I think you like the sky. You...
Shane Carreon/Poetry
Kinilaw One of these days I am going to ask my father how to make kinilaw, raw anchovies or tuna steeped in vinegar and coconut milk, the pieces eaten by hand from a communal bowl and eaten only with people you trust. Each anchovy held by its head, deftly deboned by...
Dave Roskos/Poetry
GATEKEEPERS If I say “Lock out the gatekeepers!” does it make me a gatekeeper? Some gates slam shut so fast they can sever a limb Other gates more lackadaisical, hinged on whims Saint Peter, the ultimate gatekeeper! (Heaven must be quite a club) Robert Frost said...
Emily Vogel reviews “Day Counter”
Motherhood: An Erasure of the Self? A Review of “Day Counter, by Sara Mumolo Paperback: 80 pages Publisher: Omnidawn (October 30, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1632430606 ISBN-13: 978-1632430601 Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.3 x 8.9 inches By...
Mark Blickley/Translated From the Portuguese
Translated From the Portuguese his past Fall I co-curated an exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal, "Tributaries," that opened on Sept. 30th and ran for three months under the auspices of the international...
Larissa Shmailo
Sly Bang / hybrid fiction by Larissa Shmailo You knew this is what the world really looked like all along. A review by RW Spryszak ISBN-13: 978-1947980983 Spuyten Duyvil – New York 2018 198 pages [dropcap style="font-size: 46px;...
Elliott Wilner/Creative Nonfiction
Alamy Stock Photo, Trinity Mirror, Mirrorpix STREET CRIME: Memories of Life on 28th Street by Elliott Wilner Guest Contributor n the 1940s, when I was a young boy, 28th Street Northwest was a...
Prelude to Cuba and Dallas
President Kennedy was coming to Bogue Field? Standing with the other lower level NCOs on our half-hour trip to Bogue, one hand on a metal pole screwed fast to ceiling and deck, I swayed with the bouncy rhythm of our cattle car and tried to maintain my balance. The North Carolina countryside zoomed past outside like a movie on fast forward, and the open windows and doors sucked hot air inside. The roar in my ears…
Martino Marangoni/Photography
Rebuilding / My Days in New York 1959-2018 by Martino Marangoni Publisher: The Eriskay Connection (December 18, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 9492051346 ISBN-13: 978-9492051349 Paperback: 240 pages Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.6 x 10.9 inches € 40.00 € 45.00/Signed...
Carol Smallwood Interviews Judith Skillman
Judith Skillman’s poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of the Web, the UK Kit Award, and is included in Best Indie Verse of New England to mention just a few honors of this prominent American poet and translator. Her work has appeared in many...
Of Brooms and Ennui/L. John Harris
Of Brooms and Ennui on the Île Saint-Louis by L. John Harris (Excerpted from "Café French: A Flâneur's Guide to the Language, Lore and Food of the Paris Café." Text and illustrations by L. John Harris. Forthcoming Fall, 2019 from el Leon Literary Arts.) ...
Claudia Serea & Maria Haro/TWOXISM
TWOXISM poems and visual art by Claudia Serea and Maria Haro 8th House Publishing (Montreal, Canada, 2018) 6” x 9”, paperback, 112 pages ($20.00) http://www.8thhousepublishing.com/8thHouseStore/poetry/twoxism-by-claudia-serea-maria-haro.html...
Anne Whitehouse/Poetry
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER Growing up in the South, she never felt she fit in, being way too serious and none too popular. She came north to be educated, and, leaning to the law, clerked for a federal judge and joined the Justice Department. Reared among D.C....
OUTSIDE/INSIDE, Book Review
OUTSIDE/INSIDE …just outside the art world’s inside by Martha King Blaze VOX Books Kenmore, NY ISBN: 978-1-60964-314-0 Copyright 2018 480 pages/Paperback $20.00 on Amazon by Mike Foldes ...