Poem – Ballet Over The Border (By Donal Mahoney)

  Every summer they come, a ballet over the border, without papers, a mass migration of   ruby-throat hummers, beautiful birds that devour millions of flies in North America,   birds we welcome because we love their beauty and their ballet. We do everything to help them,   hanging and cleaning feeders of nectar to plump them up so they can feast on flies until October when   they have […]

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Poem – OPHELIA’S BLUES (By John Biscello)

Ophelia’s Blues (By John Biscello)   her sad sea-green dress, an epitaph, rippling quietly, as if in a dream. the small history of a fresh wraith, white fingers forever separating the bones from the silt.   Originally from Brooklyn, NY, author, poet and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in Taos, New Mexico for the past thirteen years. He is the author […]

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Not Becoming A Statistic

Trameka Pope has a lot to be proud of.  The 19-year-old was homeless as a child and had a daughter right before she entered ninth grade, but next week she’ll graduate as valedictorian of Chicago’s Wendell Phillips Academy High School.  The teen mom is a cheerleader and member of the National Honor Society, and in the fall she’ll attend Western […]

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