Orphaned Words: Forgotten Poems from a Haphazard Life by RD Armstrong $20.00 USD + shipping, 246 pp A Review by Judith Skillman In RD Armstrong’s Orphaned Words, we find a rare honesty, beginning with the poet’s forward: “If it weren’t for...
The making of the album cover artwork for Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Interview with David Larkham by Mike Goldstein, Contributing Writer Founder/Album Cover Hall of Fame Originally posted April 18, 2014, with updates added April, 2018 Like...
Photo by Brandon Morgan on Unsplash *** A Disease of My Own I have a lot of medical problems. I live in hope that I will develop a unique disease that someone will name after me. Most diseases are named after the physician or scientist who first described the...
malachybrowne Bird’s eye view of the Calais Jungle *** Walking the line: Macron’s new asylum law attempts to appease the Right without inflaming the Left This is the first in a two-part series about migration to France. It addresses the Macron...
by Mark Blickley, read by Zoe Anastassiou Real_Realism-_An_Art_Manifesto_for_the_Disenchanted (1) Why I Wrote “Real Realism: An Art Manifesto for the Disenchanted.” For many years I used the term Real Realism, as a fictitious anti-art movement to...
Leaving Moscow? By Stephen Poleskie Contributing Columnist “Just fill out this form and you can go. . . .” Jenya said, sliding a paper in front of me. “But it’s in Russian, I can’t read Russia,” I replied. “We know you can read it,” Jenya...
My Life in the Land of the Eternal Spring: The Coffee Plantation By Mark D. Walker Contributor Though I had lived and worked in Guatemala for seven years, it was a brief encounter with my young daughter, Michelle, on the San Francisco Miramar coffee...
TOM DEISBOECK *** Braised Bourdain by Jim Palombo Put in equal parts sadness, frustration, wonder and anger, and simmer for… oh, I don’t know, for awhile. When ready, serve to friends accompanied by an aged Bordeaux and immerse yourself in whatever...
The Invisible Man By the window, on a black bone chair the germs leave your body through smoke. Can two tandem blankly to bash out a cure? I have read that drones die in the act of mating. Honey-stomachs busting in the rub of it. The longtime residents warned...
Against the Ache: Elizabeth Cohen’s The Patron Saint of Cauliflower By Emily Carney Contributing Reviewer “I’m preparing for the end of the world / again,” writes Elizabeth Cohen, “which is to say I am making / goulash.” This is how Cohen introduces The...
“The Drunkards” by L.M. Rivera Omnidawn Publishing Copyright 2018 ISBN 1632430541, 9781632430540 144 Pages $11.93 Review by Emily Vogel L.M. Rivera’s new collection of poetry, “The Drunkards” is first of all predicated upon and associated with numerous notions and...
Snack Cat: Jazz you like it A musical collective An e-interview with Aleksi Glick by Mike Foldes Ragazine: Who are members of the collective? Glick: Below are the members of Snack Cat with the instrument they play. Aleksi Glick- lead guitar/...
*** The Essence of the Flip By James Palombo Politics Editor In watching the news over the past weeks I was struck by a reference to President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen and the possibility that he may “flip” on his most cherished client. In...
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