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Homeword Reignites Youth Artists by Bryan Head On Saturday, March 5, HomeWord, a local youth poetry organization, will present the second annual MatchStrike Youth Arts Showcase. MatchStrike brings together over 25 youth artists from various mediums in a gallery and concert-style showcase of local youth talent. The event will featureContinue Reading

Black Voices Matter by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist – Quincey Troupe spoke with Bill Moyers at a Festival of Poets in 1995. Nobody can say it like Quincey! “People want to hear The Voice. They want to hear the poet sing. They want to hear somethingContinue Reading

Poems and Prose by Pasckie Pascua A new book reflects the often ragged but mostly warm wisdom of a journeyman who witnessed and experienced a life that defies his reserved demeanor and soft-spoken tact. Published by Loved by the Buffalo Publications, Red is the Color of My Night is writtenContinue Reading

For I am Mountainborn review by Patrice Tappé “Each verse is a haiku droplet distilled from clearing mountain mists.” For I am Mountainborn, by Lenore McComas Coberly, is sublime.  Open this book to any page and sink into beauty. Each verse is a haiku droplet distilled from clearing mountain mists. OneContinue Reading

The Face of War, A Soldier’s Lament review by Patrice Tappe What is the meaning of war? Anthony Guidone searches for answers in his book, The Face of War, A Soldier’s Lament. War has impacted the way Guidone defines it. He uses the art of photography juxtaposed, literally, under hisContinue Reading

Winter Light by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist We are in the time of Phos hilaron, gracious light. Evening’s phosphorescence through skeletal trees arrives around 5:15. This light stuns, dazzles, illuminates. Do I love the day’s first light, or last light best? I can’t choose. I doContinue Reading