Remembering Nick Kolumban

Remembering Nick Kolumban

Nick Kolumban ** “inside a Yankee coat…”     by Paul Sohar Contributing Writer   There was a poetry reading in New Brunswick last June 14th to celebrate what would have been Nick Kolumban’s 78th birthday. Anne, his widow, was there,...
Gianna Putrino/Emerging Artist

Gianna Putrino/Emerging Artist

Gianna Putrino with some of her pastel drawings at the Anthony Brunelli Gallery in Binghamton, New York. Waking Up To Reality: ***************************** The Anxiety Series with Mike Foldes Founder, Managing Editor   RAGAZINE:  What were your artistic...

Jeffrey C. Alfier/Poetry

Farm Near a Bend in River Tummel   There was a shed here once. If you look close, you can see grass ghosting its outline.   Any tool the day required could be found here. Tack, as well: bits, bridles, a harness or two.   Never mind weather; some days I...
Then and Now

Then and Now

The author on his bicycle in Rome, ca 1985 Roman Ghosts by Steve Poleskie Contributing Editor/Columnist     Halloween is fast approaching, a holiday that has gone from a pagan celebration to a commercial event rivaling Christmas, which I suppose has evolved...
From the Edge

From the Edge

Photo by RyanMcGuire (Pixabay) YellowstoneNPS Heading out west on an open road *** *** The Great Escape     by Bill Dixon Contributing Columnist     I’d had a tough summer. I’d spent most all of it tearing apart apartments and putting them back...
Casual Observer

Casual Observer

Photo by johnhain (Pixabay)   Coming to My Senses   by Mark Levy Contributing Columnist     Quick! How many senses do you have? I’ll get you started. There’s the sense of sight, the sense of smell. Go ahead, count them up. I’ll wait.    ...
On Location/France

On Location/France

AAA Caroline Chevalier : AAA Out of the muddy water of life AAAA by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret Contributing Columnist   Caroline Chevalier, Dragonfly Series Arles (France), summer 2015.     One can enjoy the photographs of Caroline Chevalier by their...
Writers on Writing

Writers on Writing

Photo by Geralt (Pixabay) Slivers of Speculation: AAA Barry Lopez and Trauma Theory By Joe Amato & Kass Fleisher A conjecture and spoiler alert all at once: there are cognitive reasons why artifice intrudes so sparingly upon trauma writing.   * First though:...
Litsa Spanos/Blink

Litsa Spanos/Blink

Seta Injeyan, Amphibious Event / 48 x 36 / acrylic on canvas.  www.setainjeyan.com The Art of Business/The Business of Art   Ragazine.CC: Litsa, I first became aware of BLINK when a beautiful catalog addressed to Ragazine arrived.  It contained a huge catalog of...

Saramanda Swigart/Fiction

PARTING SHOT by Saramanda Swigart   Carrie fled to her father’s study to escape the archaeologists. By then, most of the artworks in the house had been sold, but the study still had a coveted collection of Near Eastern art. Carrie, twenty years old, lonely and...
Barbara Rosenthal/Art Review

Barbara Rosenthal/Art Review

Barbara Rosenthal Kok & Deiman, From the Coupling Series on view at AC Institute. Kok&Deiman: Coupling Series ************** Ryan Wurst: Drowning the Mouth Breathers by Barbara Rosenthal   One of the most understated and unassuming exhibitions of the...
Bud Glick / Photographer

Bud Glick / Photographer

©Bud Glick Bachelor Apartment, Mr. Ng, Bayard St., New York Chinatown, 1982 Documenting Chinatown Photographer rediscovers work from 30 years ago     An interview with Bud Glick     by Chuck Haupt Ragazine Photo Editor   Q: You had quite a...
Bookstores of New York

Bookstores of New York

RICKY OWENS PHOTO The author and his wife at the book launch of his novel Cold Earth Wanderers at The Corner Bookstore, November 2014.  * * * * * * Where Have All the Bookstores Gone? * * * New York City’s Independent Booksellers — * * * Endangered Species or Phoenix...
Rolling with the Stones

Rolling with the Stones

In rehearsals with the Stones (l to r): Mick Jagger, Johnny Starbuck, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Darryl Jones.   Johnny Starbuck: Recollections of a 30-year Stones’ Roadie By Jim Palombo and Johnny Starbuck   So I’m sitting in Hank’s Restaurant in San Miguel...
Fred Roberts/Music

Fred Roberts/Music

The BASE on the beach. The Base: *************** Where Is My Weather *************** (March 2015, Konkord)   by Fred Roberts Music Editor   If you look for Graz on a map you’ll find it sits in Austria roughly equidistant from the cities of Bratislava,...