Alison Meyers: My Library Memories
The Executive Director of Writers & Books, (the literary arts center in Rochester, NY) and prior Executive Director of Cave Canem Foundation (Brooklyn, NY) on the shared love of reading and growing up with a two-room public library in the rural hamlet of Readfield, Maine.
King
A Poem by Rethabile Masilo
David Mills: Three Poems
David Mills shares three poems from BONEYARN; his latest collection which psychologically excavates the biographies of New York’s African Burial Ground–America’s oldest and largest slave cemetery
The Wonderful World of Beverly Hills
Anthony J. Mohr reflects on growing up in Beverly Hills in the ’60’s.
After the Play
A poem by Victoria Korth
Mockery
a poem by James Croal Jackson
Two Poems
by Robbie Gamble
Meet George Grace
Artist George Grace tries to separate himself, in terms of subject matter and style, from other representational artists while paying homage to so many who came before him.
Lost or Found
Filmmaker Mara Ahmed and art historian Claudia Pretelin share a tender epistolary dialogue about art, memory, language and becoming
Sic Terminus
a poem by Robert Penick
The Rational Animal
a poem by David O’Connell
Murph Sits Cross-Legged and Sings His Blues
a poem by Geoff Sawers
Down Harbor Way
a poem by Tobi Alfier
Shadows
a poem by Cameron Morse
Patchwork
a poem by Sandra Anfang
Rainmaker
a poem by Stephen Barile
Overwintering
a poem by Jeffrey Alfier
Scout Finch still dreams about Boo Radley
by Celeste Schantz
Two Poems
by Steven Ray Smith
Coleslaw
a poem by Harold Ackerman
The Color White
“There was a faraway village, thousands of years old, one I could trace my bloodlines back to. Sogha was a place where my ancestors drew water from a well and stored earthen crocks of kimchi deep in the ground, where medicinal herbs were plucked alongside the river and dispersed to young and old, where babies were born at sunrise only to be buried by sunset, where tiny graves dotted flowering hillsides in spring.”
Two Poems
by Ann Howells
Selecting a Burial Plot in Amicus, Our Home Town
a poem by Frederick Wilbur
My Sister Wears Five Gold Barrettes and Smells of Mint and Cigarette Smoke
a poem by Erin Wilson
Branches and Vines (After Ernastine Zaumsil’s quilt, 1875)
a poem by Monica Fuglei
Two Poems
by Carol L. Deering
One Day on Blackberries
a poem by DS Maolalai
Outside My Old House
a poem by Cordelia M. Hanemann
Out to the Farm in July
a poem by Tonya Lailey
Two Poems
by Kathleen Wedl
Two Poems
by Barbara Krasner
Garage
by Jane Desmond
Two Poems
by Ed Coletti
Plastic Breath
By Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi
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