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Bleeding Israel
by G. Murphy Donovan (July 2016) Hillary Clinton has a lot going for her in 2016. Among her primary assets we might list genitals (aka “first woman”), Bill’s and Barack’s […]
Another Sabitri
by Dilip Mohapatra (July 2016) Shuffling of boots of the security men on the hospital’s cobble stoned courtyard where the national flag is to be hoisted on the Republic Day […]
Hijaz
by Brandon Marlon (July 2016) Heat dements rival sheikhs intent on a gymkhana to determine superior breeding among stables; shaded by canopies and awnings, tastemakers rate every caracole and gambade, […]
Entropology:
by James Como (July 2016) This rabbit hole is ours, we the guild who write ‘sonnets’ with a fifteenth line, and hip-hop a waltz to four-four time, more>>>
A Bare Day
by Bibhu Padhi (July 2016) The last sleep was long. Was it sleep at all? A mere drama of rest more>>>
Among Love’s Turnings: Two Poems
by Evelyn Hooven (July 2016) MORNING SONG Waking, crossing This threshold While you sleep there, more>>>
Jamshid the Persian and Waraka the Arabian in the Indian Court of Harshavardhana
by A. Human Being (July 2016) January 11, 630 AD: Kanauj, The Harsha Empire, Central Bharata (India) Once upon a time in the far off land of Bharata, east of Arabia, […]
Gotham City, Zone III, 2085
by James LePore (July 2016) When the brain chip was invented and put into use that was the beginning of the end. They’re probably listening to me right now as […]
Kosti’s Ramón
by Richard Kostelanetz (July 2016) For my friend Tere (Gonzalez Minguez). Having produced appropriate book-art homages to Guillaume Apollinaire (known to his friends as Kostro) and to Nathanael West (commonly […]
The Waning Age of Accidental Saints
by Joe Bissonnette (July 2016) “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon ‘em.” Twelfth Night It is the most memorable […]
Shakespeare’s House of Cards: An Anniversary Celebration
by David P. Gontar (July 2016) On March 10, 1613 the renowned English playwright William Shakespeare bought for 140 pounds a dwelling place in Blackfriars, London. This innocent act perplexes a […]
Latest North Korean Missiles Tests Raise Questions about Missile Defense
by Jerry Gordon (July 2016) On May 6, 2016, a panel was held on “Naval Aviation – Today and Tomorrow,” at the National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, Florida. There, Admiral William “Bill” […]
Where is the American Muslim Babe Ruth?
by Norman Berdichevsky (July 2016) On December 22, 1942, just a year from the attack on Pearl harbor, an ad was placed in The New York Times expressing the devotion […]
The Sunni-Shia Divide and Islam’s Puzzling Origins
by Emmet Scott (July 2016) In my Impact of Islam (2014) and Guide to the Phantom Dark Age (2014) I argued in some detail that Muhammad was a fictitious character […]
