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 another day goes by where “OMG That’s so...
*** Main art cutline Lydie Calloud’s Visions by Jean Paul Gavard Perret For Lydie Calloud basic harmonies transcribe the joy at being alive that we find in the banality of the everyday. She creates fragments and extracts of movements, faces, postures,...
“… my mortally endearing friends.” An artist friend, Karen Gunderson, introduced me to Clarence Brimley, a 35-year-old spoken-word poet from NYC. Clarence sent along a few of his poems, but without the voice. I wondered how they would sound/feel when...
MIDDLE NAMES by Mark Levy I’m going to give you plenty of advanced notice to get ready for Middle Name Pride Day this time around. Mark your calendars. My online sources list March 10th as the special day to celebrate middle names, or the first Friday of...
Mathewson 11 Micro aggressions rise blank to ascension: ur-cut, savage, to omit the dupe—(re)emerges to femme a skin of guts an oblique attraction. Earl Shoepeg sucks Eddy’s soul. Earl’s an Eddy rumpologist (‘st): burned as impurity, agent of rapture in...
Flux I see something of God in each hour of the twenty-four. — Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” In the dark acreage of the house a whole hill of love prevents the roof from collapsing. Birds tinge the fringes of my dreaming. It’s the...
Imprinting I’m tiring of confinement – this place filling of connections. They are spilling on the deck and out the front door to go smoke, they are cluttering the booths and barstools, making it impossible to move. Bartender knows my name ...
Banana Lady, Hanoi | Oil on Polyester | 50x75in | 2012 Getting Real with Anthony Brunelli “Anthony Brunelli is a world-renowned photo-realist painter from Binghamton, N.Y. … Early in his career, Anthony’s depictions of Binghamton, and the...
Thomas Merton and the Dalai Lama, Darhamsala, India, fall 1968. Merton’s habit and black cowl in this photo are part of the collection of Merton’s personal effects discovered by Ragazine Contributing Editor John Smelcer, stored by Merton’s...
Music, Romance and Madness has Six Strings by Bill Dixon Contributing Columnist I was in Maine, getting ready to make my annual late September trek, and head to Florida for six months. There were boxes and stacks of stuff to be packed and loaded...
The Clear Cut by Rob Hurson *** The Line of No Trees by Renée E. D’Aoust Before the clear cut. And after. Forest not as Dalí, but as Rothko. Not spirals of possibility despite excessive overgrowth, but flat-flat hopelessness with coded...
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