Internet Archive Book Images Image from “The American anti-slavery almanac, for … : calculated for Boston, New York, and Pittsburgh ..” (1836) Before We Have an Honest Discussion About Race Whenever there’s a story of racial conflict in...
Solving Custody Battles (and Other Misanthropic Thoughts) My girlfriend and I have a kinky open relationship. We’ve agreed to whip other people./ Studies show most on-line bullies suffer a lot of on-line abuse at home./ Our family crest is striking and...
Lisa Beck’s installation in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Middle of Everywhere Lisa Beck, “The Middle of Everywhere” proposition de Caroline Soyez-Petithomme du 6 juin au 11 juillet 2015 Circuit, centre d’art contemporain, Lausanne. By Jean-Paul...
A portrait from Jean-Claude Bélégou’s series “Studies/Humanities”, a continuation of his “procession of the ’70s young models.” Jean-Claude Bélégou: * * * Yesterday as Today Jean-Claude Bélégou : 1969 Primitives – 2013...
Am I Being Too Literal? The word “literal,” for me, has gone from being mildly annoying to exasperating. After you hear why, I am pretty sure it will literally rankle you, too. Literal is an adjective that means taking a word in its usual, explicit, or...
Nick & Bootsy working the mics during their “music discovery” program in the studios of KKID radio, Missouri. The Basement Tapes: Up & Coming, Here & There on KKID: “Everyone is local to somewhere.” Imet Nick and Bootsy about 15...
Author John Smelcer at the summit of Mt. Sanford, Alaska. Photo taken by his brother. Savage Mountain: An Excerpt John Smelcer’s 50th book just came out this summer. “Savage Mountain” is a mountaineering novel set in 1980. It’s the story of...
86 Sonnets for the 21st Century Mary Barnet art by Richard E. Schiff Paperback: 134 pages Casa de Snapdragon, 2015 Avaliable at Amazon 86 Sonnets for the 21st Century Reviewed by Carol Smallwood I...
Peter Moore Photo The author, Poleskie (left), with Larry Zox and Larry Rivers on Union Square, NYC, 1968. Motorcycle Memories By Stephen Poleskie The historically cold winter has finally left us. As it’s warmer now, we have the windows open; no air...
Cuba, Michael Eastman photo, used with permission of the photographer. For more of the photographer’s work, click here. Rubik’s Cuba: A Traveler’s Varied Impressions by Jim Palombo Politics Editor It’s often hard...
After Birth, fiction by Elisa Albert Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015 ISBN-10: 0544273737 ISBN-13: 978-0544273733 Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches, hardback 208 pages, $23.00 After Birth...
Modern Dance, Women Dancing | Latex on Hardboard | 38″ x 24″ **************** “There are many threads on the fringe…” xxxxxxxxx Chris Dale is one of them… ********** *** Chris Dale is as self-effacing as one would expect a person to be whose...
A Short Treatise on Time “There are days when the fear of death illuminates everything.” —Ted Kooser I’m weary of bemoaning so many lost hours, as if we ever had any choice other than a one-way ticket with a time-stamp securely in place, like...
THE TROLLEY CAR All the windows broken snow drifted into the interior. Some demon had left it on six feet of track some seventy years ago. Demons function efficiently during the winter. It was seen and not seen. When eyes walked past...
“Dotage” Aging gracefully, With an eye for dementia I recognize celestial impotence Floating in my soup. The architecture to scale, Yet somehow out of proportion. My creator, a diminutive man Spilling forth in an...
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