Category Archives: Guest contributors

Full Circle: How One Poetry Reading Changed Everything

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August 11, 2014 by author

By Randall Horton

A bedraggled man sits on the steps of the Bleeker Street Station in Manhattan – one shoe on, one shoe off. He talks to himself so fast the words in his mind cannot possibly keep up with … Continue reading→

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Union Dues: Freedom with a small f (Part Eight)

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August 4, 2014 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Jeffrey R. DeRego

THE STORY SO FAR

Part Eight

The limousine door opens as I run up the street. We’re barreling out of the city before I get it closed and struggle to catch my breath.

… Continue reading→

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Three Poems by Scott Woods

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August 1, 2014 by author

Victor D. Infante

To The Mother Of My Enemy
By Scott Woods

Here how he died: looking up at stars.
every constellation winking out
until only eternity left to mourn.
No angel came down for him.
His mouth … Continue reading→

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Poem by John Garmon

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July 30, 2014 by author

Victor D. Infante

This Side of Awkwardness
By John Garmon

I have become a human body
All this time I was a terrorist
My dialogue was switched at birth
The pelting sleet flew off my window
Blots of … Continue reading→

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Union Dues: Freedom with a small f (Part Seven)

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July 28, 2014 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Jeffrey R. DeRego

THE STORY SO FAR

Part seven

I wake up to harsh fluorescent lights. My right arm is handcuffed to a hospital bed. The soft perpetual bleeping of machinery fills the room. I get … Continue reading→

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