Gina Larkin/Poetry

    AT THE SALON     Magazine pages filled with products to volumize, customize, hydrolosize, defrizz. Almost as any pages as are devoted to organizing the closet that stores the bottles and pumps and tubes of promise. The stylist runs her fingers...
Festival Notebooks/Book Review

Festival Notebooks/Book Review

  Festival Notebooks: 2009-2014   Trilingual anthology of international writers who participated so far in the International Writers’ and Artists’ Residence at Val-David, Quebec, Canada)   Flavia Cosma, Editor   Červená Barva Press...
Festival Notebooks/Book Review

Habeas Corpus/Book Review

  Habeas Corpus   by Cindy Hochman   (Glass Lyre Press, 2015)   ISBN-10: 1941783023   ISBN-13: 978-1941783023   Softbound, 27 pages, $12.00           Habeas Corpus   Reviewed by Jeff Santosuosso    ...
Walter Gurbo’s Drawing Room

Walter Gurbo’s Drawing Room

          Happy Mother’s Day ********** ***********               To see more images, visit the Drawing...

Galanty Retweets

*** *** *** Unnecessary clapping * * * and other white elephants *** from Galanty Miller *** I gave it all up to pursue my dream of being poor./ Let’s all give a big round of applause to unnecessary clapping./ I won’t be able to attend your wedding because I’ve been...
On Location / Liverpool

On Location / Liverpool

Billy McCrae | G20 DoubleTake | 2014     LOOK/15: Exchange *********** This Year’s Liverpool International Photography Festival  Exchange May Be Biggest Yet This month’s biennial Liverpool International Photography Festival LOOK/15: Exchange,...
Music/Fred Roberts

Music/Fred Roberts

*   A World Premiere Video from Club K   Let M Shake (Small Bear Records)     by Fred Roberts Music Editor Special to Ragazine.CC     Ragazine is pleased to present a world premiere video by Club K out of Kristianstad, Sweden. If you’ve...
Strange Theater/Book Review

Strange Theater/Book Review

  Strange Theater   by John Amen NYQ Books, 2015 http://books.nyq.org/author/johnamen Paperback ISBN:  978-1-63045-008-3               Reviewed by Paul Sohar   John Amen has a surprise for his readers every time he comes...
Then and Now / Steve Poleskie

Then and Now / Steve Poleskie

photographer unknown The author wearing one of the “magic shirts” in his Cornell studio, ca 1992 * * CHAIN MAN’S FREE STORE   by Stephen Poleskie   The shirt I am wearing while writing this piece is over forty-five years old. It is still in perfect...
Karen Schubert/Fiction

Karen Schubert/Fiction

Moving Box by ChristianReese   * * Saving a Space   by Karen Schubert     The blueberry ginger muffins were still warm, so I’d left the basket uncovered. I was balancing it and a thermos of coffee with one hand, using the other to get around a box that...

Mollie McNeil/Fiction

      Underpass     by  Mollie McNeil     I’m stuck in my babysitter’s broken-down Toyota at a stinky gas station, but I don’t really mind because I’m gliding Wanton Red across my lips. Mwah! I kiss the rearview mirror. Don’t you...

Dió-genes Abréu/Poetry

      THIS NEGRO   This negro doesn’t speak of rivers, I speak of Haitian children whipped by misery and denied a nationality;   this negro doesn’t speak of rivers, there are other currents marking the cartography of this map we call Republic;...
Strange Theater/Book Review

Diner Stories/Book Review

    Diner Stories: Off the Menu Edited by Daniel McTaggart         Mountain State Press Inc., Charleston, WV, 25304 www.mountainstatepress.org Order from Amazon.com ISBN: 978-0-941092-71-5 Published in 2015 234 pages, 6” x 9”, Paperback,...
João Cerqueira/Fiction

João Cerqueira/Fiction

 Photo by danfador (Pixabay) *     “For the Love of Nature”   An excerpt from The Second Coming of Jesus, by João Cerqueira   This excerpt, “For the Love of Nature,”  is from the novel  The second coming of Jesus,...
Michael Jantzen/Art & Architecture

Michael Jantzen/Art & Architecture

* * The Interactive Sliced House   “If I have the time, I usually develop an idea at least to the model stage very fast, a few days at most!  I usually have two or three projects going at once and they often feed on each other and sometimes directly affect...