adminAbove the old Jerusalem graveyard white clouds disperse at the light blowing of summer’s wind Serene, blue skies over young soldiers’ graves. The sea […]
Eli Ehrenpreis – Three Poems
View I wondered why a lonely seagull Drifting in a summer gusty wind Flew by the north picture window, Turning toward the roof.Then seen again […]
P. David Hornik – Three Poems
Past Pastoral 1 We can have our youth back. Jim and Ed can pull into the driveway, wait for me, slumped; Jim taps […]
Barbara Krasner – Three Poems
Brown is More Than a Color There between red and yellow lives the color brown. My given name, Bryna, translates to brown. Bryna, […]
[Review] ‘Seventeen Spoons’ – Esther Goldenberg
(reviewed by Monette Moradi) Esther Goldenberg, Seventeen Spoons: The Desert Songs Trilogy, Book 2, 100 Block by Row House Publishing, March 2025, 432 pgs. […]
[Review] ‘The Song of the Bluebird’ – Esther Goldenberg
(reviewed by Monette Moradi) Esther Goldenberg, The Song of the Bluebird: The Desert Songs Trilogy, Book 3, 100 Block by Row House Publishing, March 2026, 416 […]
Hanna Yerushalmi – ‘The Four Daughters’
The four daughters haven’t stopped talking since that first seder. The wise one works as a therapist bringing peace between husband and wife. The […]
Howard Wach – ‘Music Under the Stars’
They arrive separately. Danny is 25, sturdily built, black-haired, olive-skinned, clad in faded army fatigues. Two-day stubble shades his dark features. Corinne is 21, […]
Anna Stolley Persky – ‘Oy Gevalt! Goy iz Farbotn?’
Oy-yoi-yoi! Vey iz mir. As if we don’t have enough worries, now the cancel cabal is gunning for us Yids. The word goy, they say, […]
Bart Edelman – Two Poems
Prophecy I’ve written wisdom’s prophecy, On a white-washed wall, Outside the Citizens Bureau, But no one bothers to read it. They’re too busy with […]
David Allard – Three Poems
Remembering Jeanie We went stone-gathering at dawn, Ungainly in old boots Still sticky-eyed and dry-mouthed To gather the rocks recently Risen from the new-ploughed […]
Ira Director – ‘On Apr 14, 2024’
__________ Chicago-born artist and poet Ira Director holds a BA in Philosophy and Masters in English Literature and Poetry with works published in journals […]
[Review] ‘Out Of The Storm: Holocaust To Hope’ – Michael Halperin
(reviewed by Monette Moradi) Michael Halperin, Out Of The Storm: Holocaust To Hope, Cherry Orchard Books (Academic Studies Press), November 2025, 356 pgs Antisemitism did […]
Elizabeth Edelglass – ‘My Mother’s Alligator Pocketbook’
My Mother’s Alligator Pocketbook gleams like high-gloss patent leather, but don’t dare make that mistake, these erratic ovoid squares once sheathed exotic reptiles that […]
Ben Schulman – ((( )))
Their veins have pennies in their eyes And they won’t shut up They keep clawing They keep chattering All this incessant chatter All that […]
Marty Newman – ‘The Mona Lisa – And an Aside about Turner’
Strap on your stilts & raise a wreath to the monument. For Leonardo’s missing rib, a sundial in a sun extinct prepare a flood of […]
Eillene Leistner – Three Poems
Crossings – A fugue poem He escaped Siberia across the Urals, his nearly frozen nose still intact, his once blond hair turned jet coal black. […]
Janice Alper – Three Poems
Where the Train Tracks End I walk in silence along grass covered train tracks with teenagers, Holocaust survivors, chaperones. We are a sea of blue. […]
Jonathan Papernick – Excerpt from ‘The Oppressor Professor: A Novel of the Tentifada’
Even after teaching for more than twenty years on Weldon College’s bucolic campus, tucked away amid a mature hardwood forest of maple, beech, ash and […]