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  • Monique Fowler as Elizabeth Bishop: The Gossip of Self-Doubt

    February 11, 2009

    The latest incarnation of Monique Fowler’s “The Other Life” debuted at The Cell Theater on Sunday evening.  Fowler’s play is a tribute to Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell’s friendship, featuring Fowler (left) as Bishop…

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  • “Reading for a Book Contest” [by Nin Andrews]

    February 11, 2009

    Reading for a Book Contest Everyone knows it's not easy to fall in love.  You can't just go out in the streets and shout, You. You look like a nice guy.  How about a…

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  • Part 2 of 3 chats with three generation of wonderful men

    February 10, 2009

    A Chat with Bob Hicok Bob….I wanted  to ask you about cars and why oh why did you change jobs? I'd likely be out of work if I hadn't changed. I suppose that what…

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  • Abraham Lincoln, Poet (by Laura Orem)

    February 10, 2009

    This week marks Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday. Writing about Lincoln is a little like writing about Jesus or King Arthur – he has been so mythologized that the original shape of the man is…

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  • Presenting Jill Alexander-Essbaum

    February 10, 2009

    Poems published in O&S Volume 2, Issue 1 (www.poetsandartists.com).  Click on the layout above to listen to her reading.

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  • “Musing” [by Stephen Yenser]

    February 10, 2009

    Musing   1. Dear Melissa–daughter of Deborah, Hebrew for bee, From dbr, linked to words for truth and word– Whose own name glows Translucently as honey, or the amber Embalming that famous Baltic bee…

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