Introduction and Poems by Stefan Lovasik
Introduction by Stefan Lovasik It has been an honor and a remarkable challenge to narrow all the fine poems down to what is collected here, especially given that there were approximately 3,000 poems submitted for this issue of Pedestal. I sincerely wish we could have published many more. My deep gratitude to John Amen for […]
Katherine Soniat – Orphan Joy
Orphan Joy Send Kuan Yin home to me, her words of compassion pressed between those ancient covers. Mail her to the wrought-iron number nine nailed to my cottage where geese live all winter. Know no more urgent words are written than these. You are silent. Wait still spilt in blue on my open palm. And Kuan Yin walked the tracks with […]
Stellar Albums of 2016, by John Amen
Stellar Albums of 2016 by John Amen 2016 may have yielded innumerable political shocks, nationally and internationally; however, it was also a fertile year for popular music. From timeless swansongs, to continued evolutions in hop hop and electronica, to a resourceful mining of sounds integral to the 80s and 90s, to audacious statements regarding human […]
