Photo by Artur Pokusin via Unsplash *** My Street, Their World By Carmen Firan Sipping my morning coffee. Spring was just around the corner, but not quite there yet. The sparrows have gone berserk, they’ve lost patience, flinging from one branch to another,...
Photo by adrigu TV Dinners by Alfredo Franco Thomas Black’s father left the family the summer before the Martin Luther King riots, when Thomas was five and they still lived in a real house in Virginia. He remembered the days leading up to his father’s...
Krista Mangulsone photo *** Right on Through By Christopher Dungey Glennie Milford rolled to a sitting position on the lumpy rooming-house mattress. A twinge of the North Korean shrapnel lodged behind his right meniscus reminded him about the weather. Classes at...
Vito Acconci Flashbacks During a relatively short but active stay in New York City in the ’70s, photographer Valerie Brown managed to capture on film a number of the most popular and/or important figures in the art world of the day. This all before...
Virtual View: Feeling the Heat, 2016 Artist Spotlight Virtually Yours For several years, Oakland, California-based artist Gabriel Navar created scores of images focusing on obsessive/compulsive use of smart phones. With the more recent expansion of...
The Latin Quarter by Flavia Cosma ISBN #-13: 9778-1-941196-21-2 $14.95/paper…94 pages MadHat Press Latin Quarter by Flavia Cosma Is life the way it should be? Review by Antoaneta Turda This question whizzes through my mind after reading the poetry book...
Firefly I dabble in wings in variations of flux Heraclitus is my friend everything in the world is my living room I am not pretty but let me show you my light here I land on your fingertip no no do not crush me I fear the dark as you do there are others I could have...
“Not Asking what if” by Adele Kenny Muse-Pie Press ISBN: 978-0-918452-51-8 Perfect Bound 80 Pages, 105 Haiku June 2016 Not Asking what if Review by Emily Vogel Just before I began reading Adele Kenny’s new book of haiku, I paid a visit to a nun, concerned that I had...
Elaine de Kooning and Steve Poleskie, photo by Eddie Johnson Remembering Elaine de Kooning at Chiron Press by Steve Poleskie Contributing Columnist The Denver Art Museum is currently holding an exhibition titled “Women of Abstract Expressionism.” It will be up...
An Elegy for Mother, or, an Attempted Remembrance of the Great Storm We say she lives on, untrue, in recollection like the dragon having hungered for more than kinsfolk — those long gone, flea-bitten, and burrow-rid by toxic smoke too hazy sick for honest...
counter girl by Monique Quintana There was a cute girl that checked us in at the counter. I liked her dimples the best, the way they dipped. I wanted to stick my pinky finger in them. They were so cute. She gave us the key for room 119. She was the best thing about...
politically-inclined.com *** CAMPAINS by Jim Palombo Politics Editor Yes, both the Republican and Democratic conventions have been painful. In the most free, most prosperous country in the world the political dialogue surrounding who will lead the country is...
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