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Out of Santorini (themed photo albums by photographer, body-work specialist, world traveler, and multi-media artist Doris Athanassakis, who divides her year amongst Santorini, Athens, Austria, and the Near and Far East) Most recent post . . .
Dispatches from The Esso Club (Sand Hills native Ted Balk expounds on this, that and, often, the other from the front porch or, in winter, the Democrats’ side of the bar, at Clemson’s famous watering hole, The Esso Club) Most recent post . . .
Epicurus’ Porch (picked-just-at-peak offerings from a Low Country, South Carolina home and garden by bibliophile and Humanist William A. Balk, Jr.) Most recent post . . .
Won Over By Reality (With his inquisitive mind and engineering background, omnivore Tim Bayer searches out for us brief but entertaining videos) Most recent post . . .
This IS My Day Gig! (or, “Have Trumpet, will Travel”, follows the career and continuing education of musician/musicologist Hardin Butcher, a composition still in progress) Most recent post . . .
(Using photography as her vessel, Chiara-Sophia Coyle, in Clicks & Relativity, explores and contemplates the relationship between eye, soul, and memory, as expressed through reflected and abstract captures, light, and stillness) Most recent post . . .
Breach of Close (Stefanos Cristoforos writes here as an amateur on art, memory, language, identity and, increasingly, politics, writing which, he says, feels like trespassing on other people’s intellectual turf, hence Breach of Close, an old legal term for trespassing) Most recent post . . .
On The Other Side, Chicago numismatist Phillip Davis responds to his earlier-than-to-νομίσματα calling to poetry Most recent post . . .
The Disappearing Land (oil paintings and watercolors by jazz singer, composer/lyricist, and recording artist Meredith d’Ambrosio, who draws her inspiration from France, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, Massachusetts, and other visually indelible areas) Most recent post . . .
Rumi Nation (musician/arranger/trumpeter Barry Danielian, a master teacher of Filipino and Malaysian martial arts, is also a devout, thoughtful and inspiring follower of The Prophet Muhammad, and his column, Rumi Nation, will offer meditations from all the varied spheres of his rich life) Most recent post . . .
Trying to Figure It Out (personal and political reflections from Ghent, Brussels, by new mother and historian Dr. Jozefien De Bock)Most recent post . . .
Outside of a Dog (from Dr.Diane Fortenberry, iconoclastic reviews of books worth reading from a Mississippian transplant to England) Most recent post . . .
Maine Cat (occasional columns from repatriated-to-the-Maine-woods-from-NYC saxophonist, graphic artist and photographer, Alan Gauvin, ably assisted or thwarted by Moose the Cat) Most recent post . . .
Miriam’s Well comprises poems from an ongoing poem cycle (“Erotica and Longing During The Plague”) by activist/organizer/advocate-for-the-unhoused Mimi GermanMost recent post . . .
Seaside Scribbles, (Filed from Chicago’s suburbs, a Cycladic island, and Florida’s gulf coast, by Stacey Harris-Papaioannou, who long ago fled the Midwest’s sub-zero winters) Most recent post . . .
Emily Hipchen files Providence & The Sparrow from her current location in the nation’s smallest—but most densely populated—state. Yesterday, in a meeting with twelve strangers and apropos of nothing, she declared herself a complete introvert, which is not a lie. Today she likes the word parrhesia, but a week ago she liked tricuspid and lacuna better. She teaches, of course. Most recent post . . .
Polemicist (British barrister Michael House, FRGS makes good on that alphabet soup after his name, sending back illustrated dispatches from far-flung compass points and long-past eras) Most recent post . . .
Out to Pastoral (John Idol revels in nature, poetry, personal experience, politics and . . . whatever, from The Tarheel State, North Carolina) Most recent post . . .
Beauty Emerging (Photographs and musings by artist Chris Jordan) Most recent post . . .
Desperado Shindig (here, Phoenix-Arizona-based illustrator and cartoonist Ted Jouflas offers up long form comics and other exuberantly illustrated narratives) Most recent post . . .
Pinhead Angel (children’s-writer/producer Burt Kempner could count how many angels fit on the head of a pin, but he’d much rather keep his eyes and ears open to the absurdity that clings to him like dollar-store perfume . . .) Most recent post . . .
West Side Stories (light-and-dark but, let’s face it, more dark than light, occasional humor by Manhattan denizen and failed, if still in demand, trumpet player Ross Konikoff) Most recent post . . .
Pawprints on My Bathroom Ceiling (Science Fiction author and illustrator Judith Lawrence Blish contributes impressions from the heart of Athens, Greece: Thisseion) Most recent post . . .
Renegade Lens™ (cinematically gripping rants on sex, film, politics, religion, and Rock & Roll written and directed by award-winning Conscious Filmmaker®, David Christopher Loya) Most recent post . . .
Working Through Motherhood (Reflections from a new, full-time working mom, Annie Carroll Maffeo, who, recovering from postpartum anxiety, still cannot get over the fact that she has created a human and kept said child in one piece) Most recent post . . .
Collected Curiosities (historian of ancient science and folklore Dr. Adrienne Mayor writes of tattoos, mythological beasts, and huntresses, etc., etc., etc., from Stanford, California) Most recent post . . .
Above The Timberline (dispatches from Alaska by long-ago-transplanted Lower-48’er, the sane but witty Wayne Mergler) Most recent post . . .
The Art of Forgetting (Poet Philip Nikolayev explores experience, memory, forgetting, and elements of the poetic process of reality) Most recent post . . .
More Light (Goethe’s famous last words are simply a jumping off place for California-based poet-essayist Jean Carroll Nolan) Most recent post . . .
Many Gardens (dispatches on social justice, gardening, and service by Pauline Panagiotou Schneider) Most recent post . . .
Vinyl Tap (comprises recordings selected by trumpeter, Big Band leader, and Ur-collector-of-vinyl Dean Pratt from his lifelong record archive: essential listening for the post-vinyl era) Most recent post . . .
Dolors & Sense (at times perhaps more dolorous than sensible, a literate column on medicine, health, history, and social trends by former Fortune Magazine editor, Sanford Rose) Most recent post . . .
Where Words Go (here is Becky Dennison Sakellariou, poet, writer, educator, counselor, grandmother, choralist, seeker, accepter and all the other titles we carry, hoping to make sense of the world somehow or explore how we struggle to make that sense, even it it doesn’t make sense, or maybe to come to the acceptance that it is all random and that we only do what we can.) Most recent post . . .
Imagination’s Favors (Poems, commentary, and musings by Don Schofield, poet, translator, and longtime resident of Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece) Most recent post . . .
For Art’s Sake (Encounters with art by Athens-Greece-based artist/journalist Stella Sevastopoulos) Most recent post . . .
On the Other Hand (occasional input from Anita Sullivan, an Oregon poet who spends way too much time looking out her window trying to remember an interesting dream) Most recent post . . .
VazamBam (aka Vassilis Zambaras, poet in residence in The Peloponnese, Hellas, offers a poem plus lyrical, colored-local commentary) Most recent post . . .
Squibs & Blurbs (illuminated/-ing art-and-word-things from graphic artist and Aikido Sensei, New Jersey resident Jerry Zimmerman) Most recent post . . .