I was going through a mid-month crisis. I had a deadline to meet but the muse I count on to inspire me had gone AWOL. I find it hard to be amusing when I’m museless. Maybe I could just add a few wrinkles to something I’ve written before. No, I couldn’t do that. My conscience […]

Sarah had traveled this path countless times, at first on her bicycle and lately on foot now that she had Larry (dog, not boyfriend) as a walking companion. Larry always was game for the walk, tail wagging, sniffing and taking in the scents of deer and birds, other dogs and people. But on that fateful […]

Time: Present Setting: A bench at a bus stop along 125th Street in Manhattan Anita sits alone, working intently on the Times crossword puzzle. She doesn’t notice when Bobbi sits quietly next to her. Bobbi: …Elfman! Anita: Wha… Who are you… what did you say!?! Bobbi: Uh, Elfman… Danny Elfman? Anita: Elfman? Who…? Bobbi: Elfman! […]

Lydia was eight years younger than I when I was thirty-eight. We met at a PTA Mother’s Day Plant Sale. I was in charge of counting money. I remember counting piles of quarters over and over again, coming up with a different total each time — finally scattering the coins across the table in frustration. […]

Michael H. Brill, a Ph.D. in physics, has been a poet and color scientist in the Route 1 corridor (now retired) for more than 25 years. He just got married (for the first time) to Karen E. Linder.

Elane Gutterman conveys her limits to loving nature in this tritina poem. She is a founding Board member and current Literary Committee Chair of West Windsor Arts. Her first poetry book, Tides of Expectation, was published by Kelsay Books (2022).

Borden is a retired elementary school teacher who likes to paint houses, not the houses just the pictures of them. This poem was written for the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Crosswicks Society of Friends Meeting House. The designated speakers took so long that there was not time for unscheduled offerings from the […]

Vida Chu grew up in Hong Kong, came to America for college, and stayed. She has lived in Princeton for 57 years. She has poems published in US 1 Newspaper, Kelsey Review, The Literary Review, US 1 Worksheet, and The Princeton Magazine.

Co-founder of Princeton’s Cool Women Poets, Carolyn has photographed and written on nature/travel/history for The Times of Trenton, U.S. 1 Newspaper, The Packet Publications, and Jersey Sierran and New Jersey Countryside magazines. Carolyn’s commitment to the environment includes nearly 17 years at D&R Greenway Land Trust.

Michael Angrosino is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of South Florida. He is also a certified clinical chaplain who has served at hospitals and nursing homes in Middlesex and Mercer counties. He is now retired and lives in Monroe.