|| Spring 2009 - No. 100 || Contents
== Interview ==
"An Interview with Singer-Songwriter Cristina Orbe" - by Ananda Osel
New York native Cristina Orbé didn’t start playing music until 2000 – which is astonishing because her music is already undeniably poignant. The first time I heard Orbe’s music I was sitting around web-surfing when I stumbled on a track entitled “When We Walk” from her 2003 debut album Sway.
"Without Words: An Interview with Tim Gaze" - by Michael Jacobson
"Without Words: An Interview with Tim Gaze" - by Michael Jacobson
MJ: Give me a little background on who you are? I know you consider yourself to be an author instead of the more general term artist. / TG: When I was 16, I realized that I wanted to be a writer. At the time, I played Dungeons & Dragons & other role-playing games, & read a lot of fantasy fiction, science fiction & reference books on mythology. My ambition was to write Celtic fantasy novels.
"An Interview with Ruth Kozak" - by Marc Latham
"An Interview with Ruth Kozak" - by Marc Latham
W. Ruth Kozak's keen interest in travel and history began when she was a child. By the age of 10 she was penning WW2 war dramas and fantasies for her classmates and friends. Her first publication, at 12, was a snippet from a story she wrote about a Dutch war orphan.During her teens she turned her interest to Roman and Greek history, producing a number of novel-length historical-fiction manuscripts . At 18 she wrote and produced a play "The Street", a cautionary tale for her peers about heroin addiction in the East end.
== Poetry ==
"2009 Quarter 1" - Poetry Selections Edited by Richard Wink
== Poetry ==
"2009 Quarter 1" - Poetry Selections Edited by Richard Wink
Featuring poetry by: Will Schmitz, Chris Middleman, Holly Day, Paul Hellweg, Katie Moore, Mende Elaine Smith, Davide Trame, and Carol Carpenter.
"Shorts" - Short Poem Selections Edited by Richard Wink
Featureing short poems by: Marc Latham, Joseph Veronneau, Gary Beck, J.J. Campbell, Julie Forbush, Amy Nanette Glin, and Colin James.
== Review ==
== Review ==
"The McLean Review" - by David McLean
Ben Stainton's new collection The Jealousies published by BeWrite Press is a collection of restrained and evocative poems that cover everything from childhood reminiscence to nostalgia for a past that never was, from the Venerable Bede and forwards through history.
== Opinion ==
== Opinion ==
"If I Kill Myself and No One's Around To See It, Am I Really Dead?" - by Greg Oguss
Like many interested in Web culture, I was disturbed by the news of nineteen year-old Abraham Biggs Jr.’s online suicide in November 2008, carried live on the lifecasting site Justin.tv while observers offered instantaneous commentary as if they were participating in one of those pop-up video style reruns of MTV’s The Hills.
Like many interested in Web culture, I was disturbed by the news of nineteen year-old Abraham Biggs Jr.’s online suicide in November 2008, carried live on the lifecasting site Justin.tv while observers offered instantaneous commentary as if they were participating in one of those pop-up video style reruns of MTV’s The Hills.
"The Poetry of Feeling" - by A.S. Guha
In India poetry in English was generally speaking looked down upon and, considered a second rate creative activity. However, there arose in the ’60s and ’70s a cluster of powerful poets who reflected through their poetry a growing and foreboding sense of what popularly came to be known as ‘Indianness’.
