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Month: January 2026

poetry

Marty Newman – ‘The Mona Lisa – And an Aside about Turner’

January 25, 2026 admin 2 mins read

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 […]

poetry

Eillene Leistner – Three Poems

January 25, 2026 admin 4 mins read

Crossings – A fugue poem He escaped Siberia across the Urals, his nearly frozen nose still intact, his once blond hair turned jet coal black. […]

poetry

Janice Alper – Three Poems

January 19, 2026 admin 3 mins read

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. […]

fiction

Jonathan Papernick – Excerpt from ‘The Oppressor Professor: A Novel of the Tentifada’

January 12, 2026 admin 27 mins read

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 […]

review

[REVIEW] – ‘The Color of Time and Other Stories’ by Barbara Krasner

January 5, 2026 admin 2 mins read

(reviewed by Monette Moradi) Barbara Krasner, The Color of Time and Other Stories, BlazeVOX Books, August 2025, 138 pgs Jewish stories invariably tell the history […]