Picasso Bull and Matador
“…matador with bull a broken love affair in Picasso blue tone rings fire pan destined to cook shakshuka for breakfast so hungry the mouths unfed…”
Too Real to Think About
Alison Stone Too Real In myths, the would-be prey escapes by changing into tree or bird. The audience at the Israeli music festival was trapped in their human skin. A pair of lovers mutilated embracing, one teen stabbed with song still in her throat. The stars blink on […]
Stars and Petals
Michael E. Stone The little girl with a white wicker basket full of petals and sprinkles, that starry paints the heavens, her eyes sparkling jewels dewdrops at dawn unsullied still. She makes a milky way for the moon, the full, the royal moon, a queen. And you, to […]
‘Round Midnight
Poetry and Art after October 7, 2023 Devorah Roytenberg CharashCeramicist / Photographer Michael DickelPoet ‘Round Midnight I — No lullaby will do But it really gets bad ‘Round midnight* I tell everyone we’re safe because we are in our home, we have food, water, each other, the rockets […]
Light, Silence, & Time
Light, Silence, & Time — Recent photographs and older writing by Michael Dickel related to light, silence, time, and more.
Weary History
From Blake’s “America a Prophecy” to the vicissitudes of history, this hyper-illuminated hybrid responds to the sedition of January 6, 2021: Weary History on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play
The BeZine’s Virtual 2020 100TPC Event—Poetry, Music, Art for Peace, Sustainability, Social Justice
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The BeZine’s Live 100TPC Event(Asynchronous) Poetry, Music, ArtforPeace, Sustainability, Social Justice Poetry. It’s better than war! —Michael RothenbergCo-founder of 100,000 Poets (and friends) for Change Welcome to the 2020 Virtual (Aschronous) Live Event Dedicated to Jamie DedesEditor Emerita It is time once again…
Death is a tribe
“Death is a tribe,” five poem from Linda Chown on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play accompanied by four digital artworks by Michael Dickel. Check out their work…
HaEtz HaChaim
A poem, Kiddush on the Solstice, and digital landscapes, HaEtz HaChaim 1–7, from Michael Dickel on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play.
Intrications 1–5 | Linda Chown
In·tri·ca·tion | \ ˌin‧trə̇ˈkāshən, -trēˈ-\ 1 obsolete : complication, complexity; 2 : interrelation, intermeshing —
Linda Chown’s 5 poems complexly intermesh voices, views, and arts.
crossing as we would | gary lundy | review & new poetry
Book review of gary lundy’s poetry collection, “each room echoes absence,” plus six new poems of his.
wet gems you’d strain to see | Jennifer Juneau
Moon Song, Driving it Home and Keeping it There, Vanishing Act | Three Poems by Jennifer Juneau | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play
Three poems | Karen Alkalay-Gut
Three poems from Karen Alkalay-Gut: What I need, I am a connoisseur of insomnia, and Avishag Speaks.
[sorties]: a collage in parts plumb | gary lundy
Six poems by gary lundy—through sights and sounds into observations close and deep.
A Walk in the Desert | Fiction by Mike Stone | Sunday Brunch Tuesday
Tuvi Ornat goes out for a walk, ends up in a cave. Could it be Plato’s? | Short Story | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play
Nex(+)us | Michael Dickel
Visual poetry/commentary/sociology/whatever it is to you. Nex(+)us by Michael Dickel on Meta/Phor(e)/Play.
Sunday Brunch Tuesday | Operator by day | Michael Dickel
A flight of fancy—escape through language, desire, politics—an end game—a poem by Michael Dickel.
we dream we are young | Sunday Brunch Tuesday | gary lundy
These 3 poems by gary lundy dance to music & drink coffee—reading your meaning, meaning your reading.
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