Poetry of Immense Grief: An Interview with Kamla Kapur by Dr. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal Kamla Kapur is a sensitive poetic voice, who lives half the year in a remote Kullu Valley in the Himalayas and the other half in California. Her poetry and short stories have been published in the original English and in Hindi [...]

Camping In England by Steve Wheeler I was driving around England on sulphate. Everyone was doing it. Housewives, carpenters, people who worked in the London Zoo and the parks. Everyone I knew. Everyone was into it. My other major concern was the horses. Yes, I was hooked on the ponies. One Scottish woman made a [...]

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Dirty White Collar by David LaBounty Tire salesman. That’s what I am. A tire salesman store manager writer novelist poet husband father American dreamer.And no, when I was a kid, I didn’t want to grow up and sell tires. I was a bright-eyed boy with good grades who asked a lot of questions and read [...]

Never Cross a Picket Line by Zack Wilson I found myself manning a picket line this week. Not a picket line outside a mine or crumbling mill, but outside one of the many office buildings of Sheffield City Council. My comrades weren’t donkey jacketed steel workers, clustered round a burning brazier, seeking warmth under rain [...]

…we asked our friends Mira and AJ to tell us something about Poland… One day in Po(et)land by Mira Horvich and AJ Kaufman MH 09.00 am (office poet) ‘Welcome to Floo Net Travel. Please, choose the extension or wait for the next available consultant’ I wait for the beep and then dial 1-4-5-2, targeting the [...]

three reviews by Aleathia Drehmer The Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos This book is about two Cuban brothers who come to America in the time before Castro took over. When they came over it was not about “a better life”, but about new adventure and music and opportunity. These brothers were [...]

Clockers versus The Wire by Steve Finbow I don’t have a television. That’s not a boast or a way around paying the license. I just don’t have one. Spend a year in Japan and you’ll come away loathing your sixteen-foot by eight-foot flat-screen. Japanese television shows are dreadful – like Swapshop and Tiswas for adults. [...]

Dreams in Black and Green by Malcolm Hoover I am on my way home from Memphis, Tennessee where I was part of the Dream Reborn conference, a gathering of people dedicated to uniting the Civil Rights Movement of my parents age, with the Green Movement of today. Dr King was murdered 40 years ago in [...]

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Expectations by Tom Sullivan When I was thirteen my family took a trip to Yellowstone . We loaded into a station wagon and drove west from our home in suburban Connecticut . The trip was partly intended for my father to get out of the office and travel. It was also a way to visit [...]

Crisis in the Classics by Gary Beck There is a great theatrical need for readable and performable drama for students, scholars and theatergoers. The standard translations of the classics, first read in Classics 101, were derived from great Victorian and Edwardian scholars, who represented a very different audience and language from post-Vietnam America. Their scholarship [...]