Poet’s Corner – Solar Eclipse Anticipating mystical light, A covering for the day Few moments of dimming, And dark skies. Alignments prevail. The sun, the moon, the [...] April 8, 2024
Poet’s Corner – Child’s Play By Jessica G. de Koninck I want a dollwho can walk down stairswhen her knee gives way,one not uncomfortable withforgetting the names of [...] April 7, 2024
Poet’s Corner – Vermeer’s Quiet Women By Helen Bournas-Ney Hoarders of light, they wait . . . until the portalsof their paintings might somehow – open, and they slip [...] April 6, 2024
Poet’s Corner – Words Woven I hold words in handfuls Weaving them as colored threads In time and shadow and light Placing them in a form A page, a line, texture and [...] April 5, 2024
Poet’s Corner: What is the Best Time of Day to Write a Poem? April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we are running lots of poems! First up, Esther Cohen who posts a poem every day on her [...] April 4, 2024
Don Winslow’s City in Ruins Wraps Up His Danny Ryan Trilogy The good news is that Don Winslow’s City in Ruins is a terrific finale to his Danny Ryan trilogy which follows the young gangster from [...] April 2, 2024
The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano “The paper was called The Voice, and that’s what it was.” Harry Allen Most of us growing up in New York turned to the Voice as a [...] April 2, 2024
Christopher Reich’s Matterhorn – Coming Out of Hiding to Catch a Killer Mac Dekker was once a respected, effective, and feared CIA agent until he was wrongly accused of being a traitor. Faking his own death to [...] April 1, 2024