Matt Kennedy/Art

Matt Kennedy/Art

Lauper *** Panik Collective Dancing About Architecture   by Matt Kennedy The quote “Dancing About Architecture” has been attributed to Laurie Anderson, Steve Martin, Frank Zappa, Martin Mull, Elvis Costello, Thelonius Monk, Clara Schumann, Miles Davis, George...
THOMAS LA BARBERA / PHOTOGRAPHER SPOTLIGHT

THOMAS LA BARBERA / PHOTOGRAPHER SPOTLIGHT

© Thomas La Barbera Dance the Night | 40″ x 24″ *** Photographer Spotlight Through My Lens After 30 years as a photojournalist, Tom La Barbera of Binghamton, NY,  still has a passion f0r  photography  which has given him a wide breadth of experience from...

John L. Stanizzi/Poetry

WALMART The knuckled trailer park rests in topsy repose on a plinth of ledge beside paltry little Windham Airport whose main function is flying people up so they can skydive down, and where every now and then at dusk a Cessna’s vesper whispers across the wide sky...
Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret/On Location-France

Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret/On Location-France

© Maurice Renoma Maurice Renoma : Purple Roses of Cairo   Maurice Renoma at the National Hotel, Miami Beach, 2st december 2016 – 30 April 2017 by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret The National Hotel showcases nearly 100 photographs and playful scenography of French...

Alan Britt/Poetry

PLANTING A SEED   (For many people)     In the back room with Van Morrison. In the back room. In the back of the back room with Duckett & Beaz, back somewhere below purple azaleas, on our backs & on the back of a B&O retiree’s gold-plated swan song....
Galanty Miller/Re-Tweets

Galanty Miller/Re-Tweets

Parker Gibbs photo. Unsplash *** Wheels of MisFortune and other fleeting thoughts   I broke up with the woman who traveled back with me in our time machine because I just don’t see a future together./ When I was a teenager, my parents forced me into “gay...
Sue Atkinson/Education

Sue Atkinson/Education

  Joris Voeten photo, Unsplash *** When Teaching Was Fun by Dr. Sue Atkinson We gather around Maria’s campfire, under a summer night sky punctuated by stars and fireflies, with a hint of the coming fall in the air. We do this every year. Most of us are teachers,...
Scott Kahn/In Time of Need

Scott Kahn/In Time of Need

©Scott Kahn The Walled City *** In Time of Need “Where have all the artists gone? Gone to graveyards every one ….”              Thanks to P, P & M   The only profession that may be more difficult to survive than Poetry is Art. Working Artist is regarded by many as...
8 Books Worth A Look/Reviews

8 Books Worth A Look/Reviews

Queen Kong by Amanda J. Bradley 88 Pages, 7 x 10 Library of Congress Control Number:  2017930503 ISBN:  978-1-63045-038-0 Anticipated Publication Date:  April 24,, 2017 Cover Illustration by Mikayla Lewis  by Emily Vogel, Poetry Editor Much of classic feminist theory...
Linda C. Wisniewski/Fiction

Linda C. Wisniewski/Fiction

Jez Timms, Unsplash *** THE LADY OF THE LAMP   by Linda C. Wisniewski Helen stood squarely before the garish old lamp in her living room. “You’re Ed’s, not mine. Never mine. And after today, I will never have to look at you again.” She carried her morning coffee...
Steve Poleskie/Then and  Now

Steve Poleskie/Then and Now

Jeanne Mackin photo Steve Poleskie and his screen prints at the American Center in Belgrade, June 1981 *** A Cold War Warrior   by Stephen Poleskie     There has been a lot of comment in the news lately about Russia and its leader. This got me thinking about my...

Peter Thabit Jones/Poetry

HERON: MONTEREY WHARF, CALIFORNIA Heron, hunchbacked, Drab chapel-grey, Bedraggled loner, Still as a statue On guard, staring Away and stood In a calmness Perfected since birth. What is a moment In unbothered composure? The ridiculous legs, The ungainly posture, The...
Carol Mikoda/Education

Carol Mikoda/Education

Callum MacAulay photo, unsplash. com *** At Play in the Fields of Deep Reading: March Poetry Madness   by Dr. Carol Mikoda “Did this guy write any other poems?” “I sure wish the Frost poem had made it to the finals.” “Did you count...
Jim Palombo/Politics

Jim Palombo/Politics

   Photo by PeteLinforth (Pixabay) *** GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS   by Jim Palombo The partnership of the Conservative agenda and Donald Trump is on. And the alliance, holy or otherwise, can be confusing. After all neither political nor individual behavior...
Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Yingpis Kalayom, Unsplash *** THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE YELLOW   by Mark Levy As I sit in the dental chair patiently allowing my dental hygienist, whose name is Julie, to clean my chompers, I start to think that I’ve spent a lot of time, energy, and money on my...