Anthony ILacqua (Page 29)

The coming of age story must included this: loss of innocence, internal awakening or self-discovery and some sort of external conflict as impetuous for the change. An underlying cultural or worldly event which is close to or drives the external conflict is even better. For example, Herman Raucher’s Summer ofContinue Reading

Open publication – Free publishing – More dust bowlContinue Reading

Darcy joins us. For an instant I feel a homesickness that I’m reticent to share. I no longer hear the rain on the window panes.Continue Reading

Announcing Cockroaches and Geese Available here It’s the ferocious animals we want as spirits guides bears and lions and eagles but the best spirit guides are often small cockroaches and geese one tells us to purge the other to persevere This short chapbook of about 2 dozen poems was originallyContinue Reading

Basho and Brautigan Before I get too heavily into the particulars of this project and where I was at the onset and where I am now, I should begin with the two events which lead up to it. The first event happened nearly ten years ago, when I was first introducedContinue Reading

Carnal Carthage and the Green Hills of AntiochContinue Reading

Things are very bad. Very—very bad. Unemployment is high, bankruptcy, crime and failure are high too. People are losing their homes, their jobs, themselves. Treachery is also high. If things are very—very bad, then we know to be very—very afraid. Iran and North Korea are striking forward for nuclear weapons.Continue Reading

.And Emma who sang In Romanian at the steps Of St. Murphy’s church… A Recollection Of AnnaContinue Reading

Hopefully everyone in life makes a quest at some point. I prefer to suggest this sort of quest to someone very young. The allure of the open road, or as the case with Henry David Thoreau in his essay, “Walking,” the avoidance of roads. Perhaps the open country, if thatContinue Reading