Katie Kanazawich / Photography

Katie Kanazawich / Photography

© Katie Kanazawich ***  Katie Takes Pictures Chasing the spontaneous image   Katie Kanazawich, a photographer born and raised in Binghamton, NY, specializing in portraiture. She has a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Advertising Photography....

Jason Allen/Poetry

Eavesdropping on Myself at Seventeen Yo man, come on, you might as well admit you really got no reason to be talking shit, except for the fear you got growing inside like a jungle plant or a monster’s mouth opening wide, and in the big scheme of things you ain’t much...
Wendy Fox/Fiction

Wendy Fox/Fiction

flickr.com/lucychian  via unsplash.com *** When You Talk About the Weather   by Wendy Fox You and I are at a party somewhere, and first we have to talk about the weather, because we live in Denver, Colorado, where the skyline is unsettled and the temperature...
Fred Roberts/Music

Fred Roberts/Music

Fred Roberts photo The husband and wife team of Henrietta Jacobson and Julius Adler, long time stars of the Yiddish theater on the Lower East Side, recorded on the Sun label. *** Sun Records   Introduction Mention the record label Sun and the first associations...
Susan Taylor Chchak/Fiction

Susan Taylor Chchak/Fiction

Binghamton University Crew photo *** COXSWAIN by Susan Taylor Chehak Do I have a drinking problem? Just wine, mostly. By the bottle. And here at these things I’m at my worst. I teach a class, conduct a conference, show up for the dinner or the lunch or the reading or...
Jim Palombo/Politics

Jim Palombo/Politics

Augusto Navarro photo/unsplash *** OFF THE CUFF by Jim Palombo This should be the last I’ll say about the presidential race. In short, Hillary will win as Donald continues his unpopularity with his so-called “own kind.” But don’t miss the real essence of what the...
Joe S. Pfister/Fiction

Joe S. Pfister/Fiction

Photo by Eric Draper, Courtesy of the George W. Bush Presidential Library President George W. Bush at work clearing brush at Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas. *** George Bush Saved from Snakebite   by Joe S. Pfister   W on His Ranch Before Laura stirs...
Lauren Johnson/Travel

Lauren Johnson/Travel

The Roman Forum *** Sinkholes in the Cobblestone: What Lucia Berlin Taught Me about Rome   by Lauren Johnson I had been in Rome for about a week when the sanitation workers went on strike. I noticed something was off as I walked through Trastevere: an ancient,...

Paul Sohar’s Budapest

Wax Alive   by Paul Sohar Wax figures are the last thing you’d expect to find in the Castle Hotel of Budapest, especially hidden in an elevator, but that’s the best explanation I can come up with for the strange encounter I had on a recent stay in this very...
Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Mark Levy/Casual Observer

US Parks Service photo Drifted snow in Glacier Gorge *** How I Know I’m Not In Florida By Mark Levy I moved from south Florida to Evergreen, Colorado, about a year ago. The other night, a nightmare woke me up. I dreamt I was still in Florida, yet many things...

Nothing Important Happened Today/Book Review

  Nothing Important Happened Today Publisher: Broadstone Books 418 Ann Street Frankfort, KY 40601-1929 Available on Amazon ISBN:  978-1-937968-23-6 Publication Date:  March 9, 2016 Paperback, 148 pages $18.95   “Nothing Important Happened Today”  by Arthur...
Sam Grieve/Fiction

Sam Grieve/Fiction

Anna Sastre, unsplash *** The Art of Speaking Proper   by Sam Grieve “Litchis, love,” corrects the woman. “You saying it wrong. It’s litchis. The woman makes the first syllable sound like lie, not lee. She has hands the color of cooked lobsters, and the...

Five More Books/V12N4

          A Prague Spring, Before and After (Poetry) by Michael Salcman Evening Street Press, 201 $25.00, 106 pages ISBN: 978-1-937347-33-8   A Prague Spring, Before and After  Reviewed by Charles Rammelkamp As William Faulkner wrote in...
Zdeno Kostka / Photography

Zdeno Kostka / Photography

© Zdeno Kostka Enchanted in Ice #39 *** Photographer Spotlight Enchanted in Ice  Zdeno Kostka was born in and still lives in Liptovsky Mikulas, in mountainous North Slovakia. A self-taught photographer, he works in water research. He has a years-long passion for...
Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret/On Location-France

Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret/On Location-France

© Polixeni Papapetrou Ocean Man, from the series, The Ghillies, 2013 Pigment ink print | 120 cm x 120 cm  *** Greek goddess of Australia : Polixeni Papapetrou Beyond Eden Monash Gallery of Art Melbourne, 22 October – 2 December 2016 Human Nature European Month...