Featured poet Susanne Bostick Allen, three poems
Schedule-at-a-glance Government Ethics Conference September 13-15, 2011 Orlando World Center Marriott “I Didn’t Even Know That an Ethics...
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Sherry Chappelle
Jul 1, 20171 min read
Sherry Chappelle, one poem
MILL TOWN Strong place, queen city, once the mansions on the hill ruled Water Street, White and Church. Men with pocket watches walked to...
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Patrick Loudon
Jul 1, 20177 min read
Patrick Loudon, two poems, writer's commentary
RAGNAROK From words that follow flow nothing new, Frailty is human, despite heavenly view? A fable for futures, a saga now past, On winds...
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Harry G. de Vries
Jul 1, 20172 min read
Harry G. de Vries, three poems
PERFORMANCE In days when different rituals prevailed and howling storms were on my repertoire to make bedtime a theatrical event, we...
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Gregory Arena
Jul 1, 20171 min read
Gregory Arena, one poem
UNTITLED Our love is a temple. I smell your perfume whilst you dress. Still in bed I see your reflection And your silhouette passing in...
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Gary Beck
Jul 1, 20172 min read
Gary Beck, one poem
Bulletin Board Each morning on the news we hear another threat, currently schools the victims of dissatisfied students eager to pay back...
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G. Louis Heath
Jul 1, 20172 min read
G. Louis Heath, two poems
THOUGHTS WHILE FILLETING A FISH As the lake gulps down the sun, I enter the shadow of my cabin, carrying my fly rod and creel. Clematis...
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Beth SKMorris
Jul 1, 20172 min read
Beth SKMorris, three poems
TANKA Come up from the Pile. Decontaminate, shower, grab a cot, some sleep- Can’t go home today, tonight. Have to dig, find my brother....
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Alice Morris
Jul 1, 20172 min read
Alice Morris, two poems
Dirt Third grade– Bring your pet to school day. My pet– Sally, the yellow-spotted salamander. Captured in a window well. Kept her in a...
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Anna Marie LaForest
Jul 1, 20172 min read
Anna Marie LaForest, two poems
SUCCESS Hair modeled like a dipped cone pace clipped speech honed in finely chiseled tongue hands flash smartly sleeved underscoring...
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Lisa Mullenneaux
Jul 1, 20172 min read
Lisa Mullenneaux, one poem
BEFORE AND AFTER Hard not to speak in elegies, so we are silent as we walk home from the film that has shown us there's no future in...
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Jim Bourey
Jul 1, 20173 min read
A review of John Elsberg's poetry collection, Not Quite Ocean
John Elsberg (August 4, 1945 – July 28, 2012) was a longtime advocate of literature in the Chesapeake Bay region. He was a noted author,...
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Jim Bourey
Jul 1, 20173 min read
A review of G.L.Ford's poetry collection, Sans
If we judge this little volume, Sans, by G.L. Ford, from Ugly Duckling Presse, $14, by its cover, a simple white on white sideways...
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Steven Leech
Jul 1, 201713 min read
Anne Parrish’s brother Dillwyn and his disappearing novels
An uneasy pattern for successful careers as novelists from Delaware has been to leave the state for greener pastures. Delaware’s most...
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Grace Cavalieri
Jul 1, 201710 min read
THE TIKI VILLAS, a ten minute play
Place: A bungalow in the Tiki Villas. Time: The Present Characters: Coco, Muriel, Veronica (older women) Opens with Coco and...
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Christopher Heffernan
Jul 1, 201714 min read
"Where We Were Headed"
Honestly, it was kind of strange the way he came downstairs and stood next to the couch, watching the T.V. with me, with his hands on his...
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Mary Pauer
Jul 1, 20173 min read
"Take Me Out to the Old Ball Game"
The doobie in the corner of Wilson’s mouth hangs near his chin, glows red with his final toke. He buttons green fatigue pants. “Guy could...
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Peter Barlow
Jul 1, 201719 min read
"Setting Loose the Marmosets"
The TV came on in the middle of a news report. “—arrested today in front of the Detroit Zoo after protesters blocked traffic at Woodward...
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Joseph Battaglia
Jul 1, 201719 min read
"Curiosities of the Trade", fiction
Driving home to Delaware last week, I was passing through my hometown when I got caught in a downpour, so I parked in the old...
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Jamie Brown
Jul 1, 20177 min read
Social Faux-Pas and Inflated Egos: On Meeting “Famous” Writers and Other Concerns, non-fiction, memo
Maybe it’s because I was born and raised in Washington D.C., where notable people are often your neighbors, but I continue to be dismayed...
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