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  • Women’s Voices Mentorship Program for Writers Needs Your Help! (by Laura Orem)

    June 6, 2016

    As the founder and director of Women's Voices Mentorship Program for Writers, I'd like to ask your help. Our program is a way for women writers of all expressions to find advanced writing instruction and…

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  • Paris news splash: a (relative) flood (of emotion) in the streets [by Paul Tracy Danison]

    June 6, 2016

    It was the third, fourth, fifth of June/also the first, second and end of May,/I was always workin’/ and the sky’s been a pissin' rain – “Ode to Tracy D.” Watching the greenish-brown waters…

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  • Fifty Years Ago Today in Mets History [by Greg Pattenaude]

    June 5, 2016

    As far as "on this date" goes, today is a big one. Fifty years ago today – June 5, 1966 – I attended my 1st New York Mets game. Just like today, it was…

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  • Muhammad Ali: Boxer, Poet – January 17, 1942-June 3, 2016

    June 4, 2016

    Freedom – Better Now Better far— from all I see— To die fighting to be free What more fitting end could be? Better surely than in some bed Where in broken health I'm led…

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  • Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Joseph Spece of Fathom Books

    June 3, 2016

    DD: James Longenbach has written: “Wonder is the reinvention of humility, the means by which we fall in love with the world.” The poems you’ve published as the founding editor of SHARKPACK Annual oftentimes resist…

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  • Grizzly: spirit may persist after death

    June 3, 2016

    “Begging pardon”, “Begging pardon”, I think that’s what that girl sings, but it’s a murmur, far off, Just over the rumor of voices here and the smell of wine. She sings smoky and rich…

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