How many people have done spring cleaning on their entire life? Started over with a new beginning? I did when I was seventeen. All the members of my family who … Continue reading Spring Cleaning My Life by Duane L. Herrmann
Essay Contest: “My Dreams for My Community”
Adirondack Center for Writing and Adirondack Voters for Change are proud to announce a new regional essay writing contest: My Dreams for My Community. The contest offers winners cash prizes totaling $1,400 for a five-page essay on the topics of community and change. Submissions are open now until June 15, 2023.
The Road That Does Not Bend by Lourdes Santiago
In couplet formThe long and narrow road leaves no room for change.Not space or time can help to seek or rearrange. The posts they stretch for miles upon miles on … Continue reading The Road That Does Not Bend by Lourdes Santiago
Spring Peeping by Duane L. Herrmann
I know it is springwhen warm enoughSpring Peepers singthe whole night long.As air warmsthey sing brieflybut then retreatto burrows and holes.Spring is comingbut not yet here.Trees still bare,wind blows harsh,with … Continue reading Spring Peeping by Duane L. Herrmann
I Lost My Country by Yvona FastÂ
Yvona Fast's poem "I Lost My Country"
EVERY UN-NATIONAL BORDER by Duane L. Herrmann
Every national bordershould be monumentto forgetting division, suspicionand efforts to controlothers. A border should benothing morethan an idea,a minor convenience,for counting peopleso to help them.Un-national borders abound:between cities, neighborhoods,and other … Continue reading EVERY UN-NATIONAL BORDER by Duane L. Herrmann
Would You Like to Be a Prostitute? by Leslie Sittner
“Hey, has anyone heard the rumor that Mike Nichols is filming some night scenes for “Catch 22” down the hill in Trastevere?” Someone else speaks up, “Yeah, it’s … Continue reading Would You Like to Be a Prostitute? by Leslie Sittner
The Amsterdam Palace by Cristine Betters
It was 1991 and I was in my early twenties, finishing up an undergraduate degree at the University of Miami. I inhabited a small studio in a dilapidated Mediterranean-style apartment … Continue reading The Amsterdam Palace by Cristine Betters
A Day in Court, or Something Like That by Duane L Herrmann
I was in my mid-twenties, with no interactions with the legal system, when I was asked by the employer of a friend to observe a court settlement and report the … Continue reading A Day in Court, or Something Like That by Duane L Herrmann