Photo by Dan Luedert, 2004 Me with my student Jade at Vryman’s Erven Secondary School, New Amsterdam, Guyana. *** Un | Fixed Homeland: How Art makes me want to be a Guyana Girl again by Celeste Hamilton Dennis Before I left for Peace Corps Guyana in 2003, my father...
*** On fabricated autobiographies and other euphemisms By Galanty Miller I‘m organizing a fundraiser to pay for all this fancy cheese./ Our fingernails never stop growing — which, when you think about it, basically makes us monsters./ And yet...
Photo by Gaetano Racit The Revenant, by Vim, Catania, Italy. *** Street Art + Cinema Project by Stéphanie Martin Petit I call myself a street art hunter. Thanks to the use of digital cameras, tons of us have emerged during those last years and we are now...
Last Deceptions Regardless of how fond and fondling stars inculcate the dark there is yet to press the wax seal against each enveloped space— gaps infinite and intimate a woman standing by a window, her back to the audience of antiques: everything...
THE MAN WHO INVENTED FIRE A hundred million nights before the first electric chair, some bored Neanderthal with the luck of a TV detective knocked two rocks together and made them spark. Glacial wind pawed the hide hung over the cave-maw. Maybe an infant cried in the...
Photo by Gage Skidmore, CC Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail *** By the Seats of Our Pants “. . . the sadness lives in the recognition that a life cannot matter.” Claudia Rankine, “Cornel West makes the point. . . ” from Don’t Let...
Scene from Field of Dreams, based on W. P. “Bill” Kinsella’s novel, Shoeless Joe. *** W. P. Kinsella Slides Home by John Smelcer Contributing editor I became friends with Canadian writer W. P. “Bill” Kinsella in the mid-1990s. Over the years, we have...
State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies by Alexis Rhone Fancher Published by KYSO Flash Press, 2015 ISBN 978-0-98-627032-1 52 pages $20.00 “…not an abstract metaphor.” Review by Paul Sohar Death is a ready-made dramatic situation; the word alone carries...
Steve Poleskie works with Helen Frankenthaler *** Helen Frankenthaler’s Scarf by Stephen Poleskie My article on Elaine de Kooning in the last issue of Ragazine apparently proved quite popular. So I will write about another person included in the Denver Museum’s...
Thinking Dangerously in the Age of Normalized Ignorance Ed. Note: Critical Thinking: From time to time the imperative to consider the stakes takes stage. This is one of those times. Our thanks to Henry Giroux for sharing with us an article that appears...
Cover Me: Taking album art to new heights Interview by Fred Roberts, Music Editor One might call Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz the gray eminences behind modern rock and roll culture. They are responsible for imagery so iconic, it has become embedded in our...
All photos by Kelly Gammon White Inishbofin Island, off the coast of Connemara in the West of Ireland. A great place to walk, if you keep an eye out for sheep and such. *** Why Ireland? By Kelly Gammon White I’m sitting in Katie’s Cottage, a hybrid...
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The name Ragazine was coined in the mid-’70s in Columbus, Ohio, as the title of an alternative newspaper/magazine put together by a group of friends. It was revived in 2004 as ragazine.cc, the on-line magazine of arts, information and entertainment, a collaboration of artists, writers, poets, photographers, travelers and interested others. And that’s what it still is.
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