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...
William Wolak/Words and Images

William Wolak/Words and Images

Wading in Whitewater, Bill Wolak *** “A Moan Just Beyond Delirium”   Artist’s Statement, by William Wolak Collage undresses the darkness with a mirror’s secret undertow.  It’s a dance done on burning kites while dreaming at the speed of light....

Three Poems by Ara Alexandre Shishmanian

Translations from the Romanian by Flavia Cosma   cum se striveşte un bob de strugure ce ciudat se striveşte un bob de strugure un bob de strugure se striveşte ca un gândac verde – ca un păianjen cu oglinda lichidă ca un glonte cu o singură pleoapă jur împrejurul...

Patrice Kanozsai/INTERVIEW

  Patrice Kanozsai is head of the French/Belgian Publishing house “Editions du Cygne”, and it’s English-language “sister” publishing house, SWAN WORLD. The following e-interview was taken just after the Los Angeles Book Fair that...

The Herd of Elephants in the Room

The  Herd of Elephants in the Room Barry Healey’s Letter to Justin Trudeau (et al)   In 1953 the population of humans on Planet Earth was 2.3 billion.  65 years later, it’s over 7 billion, 3 times the number in 1951. It would appear that we humans have one...

By Zoltán Böszörményi/Poetry in Translation

  The Poem Didn’t Join the Class Struggle (A vers nem lett osztalyharcos) By Zoltán Böszörményi translated from the Hungarian by Paul Sohar   (the poem dropped out didn’t join the class struggle toured Paris saw Endre Ady and went to Moscow  to trace the way...

SHOUT OUTS

What our staff and contributors are up to these days:     Mary  Gregory shares editing award for Arts Coverage Ragazine contributor Mary Gregory often writes reviews for NY Press/Straus News newspapers. This year, the NY Press Association gave its 2015 first...

The Interview, by Allan Shapiro

  the interview   by Allan Shapiro The handshake. So when I go to shake his hand, making sure to look him in the eyes and smile as I do, I call him Albert. My name is Albert. I say “Hi, Albert. I’m Alfred.” He’s Alfred. I’m Albert. Alfred says...
Curtis Salonick / Photographer Interview

Curtis Salonick / Photographer Interview

© Curtis Salonick The Departed 2 Pennsylvania GOTH “The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in England during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre” … from The Urban...
Music Review / Fred Roberts

Music Review / Fred Roberts

© 2015 Julia Kausch The Hoodoo Two Werewolves Ravage Rostock   by Fred Roberts Contributing Music Editor   T he Blues are alive and well in the Warnow Delta of Rostock, Germany. The Louisiana Bayou, home of the evil eye, mojos and spells, isn’t just a...
From the Edge/Column

From the Edge/Column

© Allen Forrest     Divorce, Florida and Me   by Bill Dixon Contributing Columnist   I guess the first time I came to Florida was in 1982, maybe 1983. My marriage had fallen apart, for which I (justly) blamed myself. I’d been a banker for about...
Club Royale/Fiction

Club Royale/Fiction

A CLUB ROYALE   by Dennis M. Desmond       “Early autumn, 1974, Lawton, Oklahoma “Indian Summer” in Oklahoma doesn’t involve Native Americans but it does bring plenty of heat, especially to the sidewalks of Fort Sill Boulevard, with its massage parlors, pool halls,...
Michael T. Young/Poetry

Michael T. Young/Poetry

  Ocean Script   The way its seeming omnipresent gestures hone to the corrugations of scallop shells, sand dollars and sea glass, leaves me deciphering the infinite one grain at a time.   So I step back.  Watch sandpipers leap into flight, skimming the...
L’arte assume Roma

L’arte assume Roma

. Scene from the film, Gwen Stacy – A Street Art Documentary (part1) DIONISO PUNK: All About Dreams   A couple of months ago we received an e-mail with links to a two-part documentary by Dioniso Punk on street art in Rome, Italy. The short films came from...
Then and Now/Steve Poleskie

Then and Now/Steve Poleskie

  ** ** X-TRA SERVICES by Stephen Poleskie               “The photo above is of me talking on a telephone when telephones were for talking on, not typing out messages to one’s friends with your thumb, or playing games, or getting directions that get...