Book Reviews V12N4/July-August 2016

Book Reviews V12N4/July-August 2016

This Amazing Cage of Light by Martine Bellen ISBN-13: 978-1941550328 – Paper/$18.00 Spuyten Duyvil: 2015 www.spuytenduyvil.net   This Amazing Cage of Light Review by Tom DeBeauchamp   In “Cuccina,” one of the poem’s in her new collection,...
Mike Foldes/Yunior Hurtado-Artist Interview

Mike Foldes/Yunior Hurtado-Artist Interview

ESPERA | 90×130 cm   The Music of Cuba in Color An interview with Yunior Hurtado Torres   With Mike Foldes Q) When did you get interested in art?  A) Desde niño siempre he querido hacer cosas, copiar de lo que nos rodea y dibujarlo a mi manera. No tenia...

Rosalia Scalia/Fiction

MOTHER’S DRESSER   by Rosalia Scalia In the evening, after dinner, the grownups drink espresso laced with Sambuca or anisette, the aromas of licorice, of anise, of coffee rising up like extended fingers and mingling with whiffs of garlic, tomato, and basil,...
Then and Now/Stephen Poleskie

Then and Now/Stephen Poleskie

Steve Poleskie with his drawings that were “not art” in Rome exhibited at an art gallery in Manhattan. *** This Is Not Art. . . .   by Stephen Poleskie   Have you ever been insulted, I mean really insulted, and then felt good about it? You say that...

Three Poems by Trina Gaynon

Why Does the New Moon Hide?   Dogs barking at a skateboard rasping across the dark. The mother scolding her children to bed. A house where the wife is beaten. Tonight it is silent. May God keep her safe. The daughter leaving home, the door closed on her soft...
The Land of The Sleeping Buddha/Rishi Shankar

The Land of The Sleeping Buddha/Rishi Shankar

Photos by Rishi Shankar The snow laden peaks of  the Kanchendzonga (in the center) range create a shape like a man sleeping on his back. *** Into the land of The Sleeping Buddha   by Rishi Shankar   My memory strained hard To believe In the sweltering days under...
Interview with “Rosebud” co-founder Rod Clark

Interview with “Rosebud” co-founder Rod Clark

  *** Boss of “The Biggest Little…”   Rod Clark is co-founder and publisher of Rosebud, one of the longest-running independent literary anthologies published in the United States. By way of disclosure, one of his current cohorts in that...
Janez Vlachy / Photographer Spotlight

Janez Vlachy / Photographer Spotlight

© JANEZ VLACHY Photographer Spotlight Slovenia’s Man on the Street Artist’s statement: I still stop my future models when I see them coming down the street and invite them to come to my studio, telling them I am making a new exhibition series. Some are...
Michelle Terry/Creative Nonfiction

Michelle Terry/Creative Nonfiction

Valerie Brown Photo   Pickin’ Wildflowers   by Michelle Terry   My Grandma Leona was not a classic Depression-era beauty. Her harvest-browned skin and murder of jet-black hair were an arrant contrast to her delicate, shrinking-violet counterparts...
James Palombo/Politics

James Palombo/Politics

by James Palombo Politics Editor I grew up in Endicott, New York, a small town that had a big-time connection to the corporate world. This connection was International Business Machines – in fact IBM had its largest manufacturing plant just a few minutes’ walk from my...

Three Poems by Jean C. Howard

HANDING OF THE FLAG (Services of William Reese)   At the grave site, as each star is swallowed by a fold or white-glove tuck, the flag moves, slowly, precisely, each tug calculated and rehearsed.   The gatherers are silent, hearing each move, though...

On Location/France

Vertiges animaliers de Tomi Ungerer   Tomi Ungerer: Elephants, Whales & Kangaroos, On exhibit in Nieves, Zurich   by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret Contributing editor Le caractère « tactile » du dessin d’Ungerer permet de comprendre l’élaboration d’une pensée...
From the Edge/Bill Dixon

From the Edge/Bill Dixon

Evan Kirby Photo *** Part II The Continued Story: Florida by Bill Dixon Mars, I suspected, was actually a little nicer and more logical than NE 22nd Ave, Miami, Florida. I drove down in the old diesel VW Rabbit. It fit right in with the neighborhood. I could park it...
The Starving Artist/Legal

The Starving Artist/Legal

Crowdfunding by LendingMemo The Legal Side of Crowdfunding   by Roman Zelichenko and Mark Levy   As more and more artists, photographers, and movie makers are turning to crowdfunding to raise money for their projects, it’s important to think about and...

Galanty Miller’s ReTweets

    Open Relationships, Haunted Burial Grounds, Texting While Driving, and Other Random Ironies   by Scott “Galanty” Miller My girlfriend and I have a kinky open relationship. We’ve agreed to whip other people./ Studies show most on-line...