March 26, 2023

20th Anniversary Issue: Edited by Richard Levine and Barry Wallenstein

A Letter
To Our Readers By Bertha Rogers
Call to Armistice – Poems and Commentary
Preface By Richard Levine
Call to Armistice – Poems and Commentary
Commentary By Jan Barry
Call to Armistice – Poems and Commentary
A Poem and Commentary By W. D. Ehrhart
Call to Armistice – Poems and Commentary
Two Poems By Richard Levine
Call to Armistice – Poems and Commentary
Slice of Life–Quiet Time in War By Marc Levy
Call to Armistice – Poems and Commentary
Three Poems and Commentary By Fred Marchant
Call to Armistice – Poems and Commentary
Two Poems and Commentary By Suzanne S. Rancourt
Call to Armistice – Poems and Commentary
A Poem By Karen Skolfield
Call to Armistice – Poems and Commentary
Commentary By Julia Whitehead
Call to Armistice – Poems and Commentary
A Poem By Dan Wilcox
Call to Armistice – Poems and Commentary
Commentary By Veterans for Peace
Essay
Theatre A Literary Art? By Christopher Hirschmann Brandt
Essay
The Power of Tides, The Impulses of Mankind: A Marxist and Cultural Materialist View of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness By Mark Doherty
Essay
The Fool As Teacher: Poetry and Karl G. Kasberg By Robert Klein Engler
Essay
POETRY AND THE POLITICS OF AIRY NOTHING By Robert Klein Engler
Essay
Trump talks like a stand-up comic, but the joke is on American people By Marc Jampole
Essay
Examples of Unclear Writing … Letters from Applicants for Public Assistance By Kallistos
Essay
The Arrivals, NYC, 1951: from, Daughters of the Stone By Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Essay
from: DAVID’S TREE: Escaping Skin (Chapter 10 of Swampitude: Escapes with the Congaree) By Quitman Marshall
Essay
Lady Vanessa By Andrew Sarewitz
Essay
Cover Story By Margo Taft Stever
Poetry
Self-Portrait Using the Word “No” By David Tucker
Poetry
Dear Beth By David Tucker
Poetry
CLOCKS CLICKING By Helen Tzagoloff
Poetry
CONTINUUM By Helen Tzagoloff
Poetry
The Cost of Powder By Gerald Wagoner
Poetry
Files By Barry Wallenstein
Poetry
Elegy By Barry Wallenstein
Poetry
DEAD ANIMAL #5: Prince By Chocolate Waters
Poetry
The River Escapes By Joe Weil
Poetry
To Be Alive By Judith Werner
Poetry
Keep it in the Ground By Jan Barry
Poetry
Nothing’s End By Judith Werner
Poetry
My Wife Wants Sheep (a dream) By Jon Benner
Poetry
The open Gate By Jon Benner
Poetry
I BROUGHT HER TULIPS By Kathleen Widdoes
Poetry
How Can You Tell It’s a Poem If It Doesn’t Rhyme? By Laurel Blossom
Poetry
COUNTRY COUSINS By Kathleen Widdoes
Poetry
BY ALL MEANS By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Poetry
Heartbroken By Laurel Blossom
Poetry
THE MYSTIC’S MISTAKES By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Poetry
Riveted By Christopher Hirschmann Brandt
Poetry
From This Soil By Michael T. Young
Poetry
Distance No Time By Christopher Hirschmann Brandt
Poetry
Echoes in Sleep By Michael T. Young
Poetry
Atheist Prayer By Christopher Hirschmann Brandt
Poetry
The Sleeping Earth By Michael T. Young
Poetry
PORCIÓN OF PASIÓN By Patricia Brody
Poetry
Among Children By Kip Zegers
Poetry
Thanksgiving By Patricia Brody
Poetry
Graduations By Kip Zegers
Poetry
Danger in the Night By Patricia Brody
Poetry
VII from “History” (a crown) By Robert Burr
Poetry
Always Iago By Robert Burr
Poetry
Feeling By Robert Burr
Poetry
Ball and Chain By Patricia Carragon
Poetry
Mona Lisa By Patricia Carragon
Poetry
THE DARK SIDE OF ME By Albert Dépas
Poetry
MISS OPPORTUNITIE By Albert Dépas
Poetry
The A’s Have It By W. D. Ehrhart
Poetry
Alice Paul By Barbara Elovic
Poetry
At the Next Table By Rhina P. Espaillat
Poetry
Late Snow By Rhina P. Espaillat
Poetry
My Facetious Me, An Autobiography By Allen C. Fischer
Poetry
Men, Myths & Madness By Allen C. Fischer
Poetry
Dreams from a Diagnosis By Allen C. Fischer
Poetry
Seasickness By David Francis
Poetry
Once Bitten By Vernon Frazer
Poetry
Singularities in Everyday Life By Philip Fried
Poetry
Sunday in the Park By Philip Fried
Poetry
On the 6th Floor at the VA Medical Center By Carol Graser
Poetry
How I Left Germany By Walter Hess
Poetry
Haimat* By Walter Hess
Poetry
Children’s Drawings By Walter Hess
Poetry
To Nazim Hikmet By Walter Hess
Poetry
Nature By Amy Holman
Poetry
Conditional Love By Kate Irving
Poetry
THE FLANEUR’S GAZE By Marc Jampole
Poetry
MANNAHATTA MORNING By Marc Jampole
Poetry
Three Selections from Poems from The Elaine Race Massacre By J Chester Johnson
Poetry
Ubi Sunt By David M. Katz
Poetry
Facebook Photo By David M. Katz
Poetry
Tyrolean Hills By Maeve Kinkead
Poetry
Straitened Circumstance By Maeve Kinkead
Poetry
After Wallace Stevens, “Of Mere Being” By Samantha Kitsch
Poetry
The Death of a Butterfly By Samantha Kitsch
Poetry
glissando By Samantha Kitsch
Poetry
Hall of the Red Earl By Alison Koffler
Poetry
THE HOBBY HORSE By Dean Kostos
Poetry
Renga Chunk 2 & 3 By Milton Dawg, Michael Morical, and Philip Miller
Poetry
AWABI FISHERS By Dean Kostos
Poetry
Portrait miniature By Robert Kramer
Poetry
OUR HOUSE By Annie LaBarge
Poetry
Mackerel and Bottle By Gerry LaFemina
Poetry
Alive By Pamela L. Laskin
Poetry
HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE By Iris Lee
Poetry
THE IDEA OF HENRY THE CAT IN KEY WEST By Iris Lee
Poetry
9th St. By Beth Levin
Poetry
Extract of Time By Beth Levin
Poetry
PARABLE OF THE FOX By Helane Levine-Keating
Poetry
ROAD By Helane Levine-Keating
Poetry
leaf By ellen 'windy' aug lytle
Poetry
love, alone By ellen 'windy' aug lytle
Poetry
AN UNIMAGINABLE SPECIES By Djelloul Marbrook
Poetry
CHEAPENING TO GOLD By Djelloul Marbrook
Poetry
Reading Invisible Man By Quitman Marshall
Poetry
Alligator By Quitman Marshall
Poetry
THE UNDERTAKING By Stephen Massimilla
Poetry
WHAT ENDURES By Stephen Massimilla
Poetry
THE WATER MIRROR By Stephen Massimilla
Poetry
WITH NO ONE BEHIND YOU, LOOKING ON By Stephen Massimilla
Poetry
3 sections (9, 10, 11) from the sequence “This Sentence is a Metaphor for Bridge” By Richard Jeffrey Newman
Poetry
Loneliness By D. Nurkse
Poetry
APPROACHING EIGHTY, BIKING UP PROSPECT By Alicia Ostriker
Poetry
NAMING THE THIRST By Alicia Ostriker
Poetry
November 11: Two Poems By Alicia Ostriker
Poetry
Sequins and Grafitti By Jaclyn Piudik
Poetry
Pound of Unrest By Jaclyn Piudik
Poetry
Above Nothing Below No One By Ron Price
Poetry
The Woman I’ve Become By Gretchen Primack
Poetry
Cold Keen Pole By Gretchen Primack
Poetry
I SEE MY MOTHER AS A FISH By Stephanie Rauschenbush
Poetry
THE FIRE DIES By Stephanie Rauschenbush
Poetry
GUIDANCE By Bertha Rogers
Poetry
EMILY, BEING REALISTIC By Bertha Rogers
Poetry
SECRET By Bertha Rogers
Poetry
FALLING LEAVES By Bertha Rogers
Poetry
In My Grandfather’s Memory By Carl Rosenstock
Poetry
The Clan Between Worlds By Adam Roufberg
Poetry
“from: American and Other Wings” By Daniel Shapiro
Poetry
Under the Radar By Neil Shepard
Poetry
Date with Kore By Neil Shepard
Poetry
Fruit Trees in Winter By Matthew J. Spireng
Poetry
Snow Geese By Matthew J. Spireng
Poetry
PUNKBOY BLUES By Steve Koenig
Poetry
Large Crow By Matthew J. Spireng
Poetry
The Shrug By Richard Levine
Poetry
Letter from The Heart of The City By D. Nurkse
Poetry
About the Quiet Tingle of Your Leg, My Uvula, Unwieldy Heart By Jaclyn Piudik
Poetry
Still Wild the Wind By Mason Trent
Poetry
Chance Performance By Barry Wallenstein
Poetry
Shadow Angel By Mason Trent
Poetry
CARIBBEAN TIDE By Mason Trent
Poetry
FIFI By Chocolate Waters
Poetry
The Long Way By Mason Trent
Review
Degrees of Freedom, by Nicholas Johnson By Stephen Massimilla
Review
Cooking with the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare by Stephen Massimilla and Myra Kornfeld By Hannah Howard
Review
LOVE IN THE LAST DAYS: After Tristan and Iseult, by D. Nurkse By Carl Rosenstock
Review
Now and Then: SELECTED LONGER POEMS by J. Chester Johnson By Melinda Thomsen
Short Fiction & Memoir
Bad Judge Men By Elisabeth Amaral
Short Fiction & Memoir
Grief and the Little Sparrows (a personal post) By Christopher Hirschmann Brandt
Short Fiction & Memoir
A Good Man By Suzanne Kay
Short Fiction & Memoir
The Library By Donal McGlaughlin
Short Fiction & Memoir
Jared’s Millennium By Paul Oppenheimer
Short Fiction & Memoir
Bad Job By Thaddeus Rutkowski
Short Fiction & Memoir
Red Shoes By Kathleen Widdoes
The Bookshelf
Selected Print Titles By The Editors
The Bookshelf
Selected Digital Titles By The Editors