Streetlight Magazine | Site-Wide Activity https://streetlightmag.com/activity/ Activity feed for the entire site. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:04:27 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 835e5318554a2a3fe6e861d451ceab2b Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41356 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:49 -0400 Distances by Barbara Baer I’d already missed two periods before I went to Planned Parenthood in Berkeley. I knew the result before a woman asked if I wanted counseling. She h […]

]]> 25baec61538a0c6c96e0118ab3b4640f Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42140 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:00:10 -0400 Rush Hour Angels by Rosanne Trost A few years ago, I was driving home from work, encountering typical rush hour traffic. At a red light, the car radio went dead. The light turned […]

]]> c3ce26ef14f5e8c1eb8e4038df4bc57f Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41737 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:00:55 -0400 Same River, Different Day by Patrick Meeds Let me tell you uncomfortable I am with silence. I am handcuffed to a joke I can’t tell. Two crows are where my lungs should be. My exhales are t […]

]]> 7cda8dac5180a2474764ea54397320da Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41999 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:00:37 -0400 The Artful Constructs of Scott F. Smith by Russell Hart When photographer Scott Smith isn’t observing the world, he’s building one from scratch. Standing in his well-ordered studio at […]

]]> 210a2e9f9d1c885f5ffe4d74b244f0f1 Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41591 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:00:38 -0400 Talking to Toads by Tutt Stapp-McKiernan My memories of the time when my parents and I lived in a renovated gristmill are of course dim—I had only been two when we moved there and four when w […]

]]> 16dc197b8f62446ceddbc69c5d784a0e Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41555 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:00:28 -0400 Reckless Abandon by Dudley Stone …………………………………………………….A poem is never finished, only […]

]]> cf5135cd06dbeebd3e49d82f30eeaca5 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41976 Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:00:19 -0400 Deconstructing Unicorns and Mermaids by Deborah M. Prum My four-year-old granddaughter, “Zoe”, lives out-of-state. We often meet via Zoom. She and I share a screen and explore her burning questions by […]

]]> f318cae8d27f2be98071b30c94137275 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41523 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:00:30 -0400 Lake George in My Heart by David Stern My wife and I sought sanctuary by the lake, our two sons in tow. The four-hour car trip was nonstop requests for candy, cookies, sodas laced with […]

]]> 32ac034eb89d22351815878ec8dd5425 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41894 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:00:31 -0400 Visitatio Divina by Sharon Perkins Ackerman It is just after 5:00 a.m. as I browse among the books that prop up my life. I say prop because books are so often a means of leaving my surroundings, […]

]]> f2f4627985f6b6e5b8a6e6db526d564a Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41518 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:00:17 -0400 Shopping by Paul Joseph Enea My grocery store is under siege by sleepwalkers who show up in pajamas moping from shelf to shelf for a precious memory. There is no one to guide […]

]]> 0b83e615c8f99ec7c7b887c8358640e6 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40703 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:00:53 -0500 Adrienne by Lisa Ben-Shoshan   She is a large woman. In another place or circumstance, she would have been the woman in the flowery housedress with fluffy mules on her feet. […]

]]> 837aa2155118a5701b0219e8d4a8e4d0 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41292 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:00:38 -0500 Harvester by Ned Kraft   Once mown a tedder spreads the murdered crop to dry, draws a swath, a windrow waiting. Three days of drought and the hay is fit to […]

]]> cedbba859127a0f7c21074c801ad08bb Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41663 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:00:36 -0500 Sefunmi Adeola's Focus on African Subjects Nigerian artist Sefunmi Adeola puts his sharp eyes to work as a photographer, illustrator and textile designer focusing on his African […]

]]> 163029f40c732c846a24fbe2f6ef52b2 Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41585 Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:00:14 -0500 Living by Water by Martha Graham Wiseman Once I lived in a house by a river, in a deep narrow valley. The house was dark and damp, the river enticing. A broad lawn, anchored by an ancient […]

]]> 0f83fe962fa39baa57a2ecb5c57e897e Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41879 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:00:02 -0500 A Necessary Addiction by Fred Wilbur Recently, my wife and I attended a dinner gathering of ten academics of which half were retired. We had met all before, though only a few do we […]

]]> b640ecb01606a8f1db97a5899dce38cb Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41295 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:00:38 -0500 Schopenhauer Rues the Rise of Women by Bill Glose “Instead of calling them beautiful there would be more warrant for describing women as the unesthetic sex. Neither for music, nor for poetry, nor f […]

]]> 69a80b31f53e263862ce91bb103a7b59 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41852 Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:00:04 -0500 After the Blizzard by Trudy Hale We had warning. A dangerous blizzard sweeps across the eastern United States. Be prepared. The young man stacks firewood on my porch and in the […]

]]> 25271e4578dc7429a59f123d98c6fe35 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41404 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:00:03 -0500 Women who nap by Catherine Socarras Ferrell Bed calls at midday, when the eyes drowse and honey themselves shut. Sleep curls thick as nectar. We hexagon ourselves, invert. Always a […]

]]> d7305cdb5d7c5afcbb563b6cf1f15db3 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41115 Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:00:33 -0500 Holding Onto The Past Through Fiction by Virginia Pye What happens to the homes where we once lived? Homes we left behind, in childhood when it wasn’t a choice, as an adult when it was necessary for w […]

]]> ad689e62e026c17257a61efd24aed0f4 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40707 Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:00:14 -0500 So Be It by Tyler Scott Spring. Finally. After several snowstorms, ice, and being stuck in the house for days on end, Louise couldn’t wait to get in her yard. The daffodils h […]

]]> eeb04b1ca3c98b588ac870531c58bede Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41398 Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:00:13 -0500 Dancing with a Shadow by Zihan Zang I danced with a shadow, drifting in the wind, Our forms in ev’ry city window cast. We held each other as the night slipped past, Circled and spun […]

]]> e91310107e579ee8be343ba9aaed44c4 Elizabeth Howard started the topic Jim Henry Retrospective at McGuffey Art Center in the forum Art Shows & Exhibits https://streetlightmag.com/lamplighter-forum/topic/jim-henry-retrospective-at-mcguffey-art-center/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:41:33 -0500  


Sarah B. Smith Gallery
Jim Henry
Interference: A Retrospective of the Paintings of J.M. Henry
February 6 – March 1
This February, McGuffey Art Center celebrates the life and art of the late J.M.…[Read more]

]]> 05f81d790c54450344b156fe968eac00 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41759 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:00:48 -0500 Lisa Macchi: Disrupting the Paint by Russell Hart                        Lisa Macchi took twenty-five years off from art, but now she’s painting Charlottesville red.  Sitting in her McGuffey Art C […]

]]> 411b76da4ddff527ce0b17854b678382 Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41580 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:00:56 -0500 A Very Ordinary Day by MJE Clubb There were some signs, of course, that the world was ending. Sitting in the nurses’ station I sipped instant coffee, listening to a float nurse o […]

]]> fefbff13aa0476a5501da9053adc5ce2 Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41719 Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:00:47 -0500 Just One Thumb by Gayla Mills I’ve been using an old refurbished desktop, just a couple hundred bucks. It’s okay—except for its geriatric pace and annoying habit of turning itsel […]

]]> eba2a396f536ad225c01ae17b912afb3 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41289 Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:00:30 -0500 Concrete Staircase by Jeff Thomas Buffalo Alice stuck her pig husband in the throat with a carpet knife. Made the evening news. Hell of a lady if you ask me, but I don’t get jury s […]

]]> fddaf3536e6fbc26f086323c997f749c Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41645 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:00:22 -0500 Future Tense by Fred Wilbur The New Year has ambled in and made itself at home, decorations are packed away, the refrigerator leftovers are cleaned out, life is out there in the […]

]]> 9e3f7628d4dc69dd8726ada6ce81e598 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41326 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:00:31 -0500 Currency by Maureen Clark we imagine she was a bride the skeleton with the small skull a Greek girl…………                     ……….her head wreathed in ceramic fl […]

]]> 16619aa99b56ea0494e238c246502bc9 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41639 Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:00:45 -0500 Why Visual Identity Matters More Than Ever in the AI Content Era by Art Meder I’m a Chicago-based visual artist working primarily with street photography and short-form video. My work focuses on capturing the city through a r […]

]]> b63960e89944ec1368462fe304c9eed0 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41313 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:00:37 -0500 Names by Esther Sadoff Cottonwood trees are producing more fluff. I am jealous of things so aptly named. The verb take can be a phrasal verb with so many […]

]]> 7550ea19c16b2d24f1bec81311d959f5 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40989 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:00:14 -0500 By Shirley's Side by Peter Wallace The sixty-year-old woman is sleeping at the moment, so I sit on a worn brown couch in the family waiting room down the hall from Shirley. It’s not t […]

]]> 4caa5812c0092c1018a7d6cff96bb069 Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41623 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:00:01 -0500 Feeding Horses and Other Things by Billie Hinton When she walks out to the barn for the evening feed, what she notices first is how dark it is already, and how, with the darkness, a stillness sets […]

]]> 39a58f15ed83ef2a6713a465d9c41c18 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41455 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:00:34 -0500 Fine Art and Craftsman Alan Box Levine “I’m always having a conversation with myself between art and craft. Art is for the heart and craft for the wallet,” says fine artist and fine craft […]

]]> f92bbab481c1fbf6d86d0db99a9e3e8b Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41565 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:00:32 -0500 The Second Christmas by Mary Trvalik I missed my son’s voice this Christmas. Of all of us, Steven’s voice was the deepest. And that includes all the voices of our best-entire-family fri […]

]]> 199af5cd36a32ff54a5396bf59cfc822 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41423 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:00:56 -0500 Walnuts by Sharon Perkins Ackerman They’re the last to disappear, along with hickory, spicing the ground from mid-autumn through December. I stumble over carpets of the fermenting h […]

]]> 86d764b51fdf3ff52d3de19e6b5e93c7 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40508 Fri, 26 Dec 2025 07:00:59 -0500 Cheesecake by Con Chapman Mark didn’t want to go to Jackie and Jonathan’s—he had too much studying to do before the end of the semester—but Marci insisted. “You can’t stu […]

]]> 52664aaaa341be0d769f85dbc2b5ac9a Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41535 Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:00:50 -0500 Ho Ho Streetlight by Trudy Hale The season of Christmas swoops in, ahead of me and my best intentions. I’ll never be a person who has all the family and friends crossed off the l […]

]]> 3f409c69b9422e266f006bf09ae7165e Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40796 Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:00:47 -0500 Away Games by E. H. Jacobs I inhaled the soot-sotted grime of New York’s summer, exhaled your scent: lavender and rose. Let me explain, because you had gone to Yankee S […]

]]> f4f84f23690f0bb95324c73caf36b811 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41231 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:00:30 -0500 What is Happening?!? by Emily Littlewood I used to laugh at my husband and call him old man (he’s nine years older) when he would reminisce on his childhood, and how much better it was than c […]

]]> bae3a18ffd8cc20dd2ce37a4ca716aba Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40576 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:00:43 -0500 Puppet and Master by Karris Rae   X/@/20X÷ Today the puppeteer cut my strings. Then he left without a word. It feels strange to move my arms on my own. I opened every plastic p […]

]]> 325ff4b0fb53165a391edbb6921c437c Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40845 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:00:00 -0500 Hand Dancing in a 45 Speed Zone by Richard Allen Taylor There is a hand dangling from the driver’s window of the car ahead, a sight seen less often on hot days like this, when most folks crank up the A […]

]]> 2add316e6d2dd463d47de70b7c0a0d0f Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41437 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:00:00 -0500 The Weight of Words by Fred Wilbur A few years ago, a friend of mine was compelled to downsize as she moved from her cottage and asked if I would relieve her of a large dictionary and […]

]]> 3403ebe1a912639a7d32923ca2041c79 Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41196 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:00:59 -0500 One Small Gift by Anne Merritt I learned how mean boys could be on the school bus during my first week of third grade. It was the first year my sister, in kindergarten, was riding […]

]]> 3c3b5aab886720ca1ea92c27a7a07605 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40789 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:00:43 -0500 The Things of This World by Michael Blanchard More than one has said it: that love is of this world only the world of a willow reaching for a river as the river goes its way and of a […]

]]> b237ce8f370e1ccbb66bd88e013856a9 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41431 Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:30:51 -0500 Complicity—A True Fiction Of Now by Erika Raskin Lissy is already dressed, her dolls arranged next to the bed in the space that is sometimes a boat, sometimes a park, and often a doctor’s office. T […]

]]> 772f04ff5610c866ae68128052719c2f Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40654 Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:00:55 -0500 At the Buffalo Roundup by Kristin Laurel The buffalo are gone And those who saw the Buffalo are gone~ Carl Sandburg I. The sun rose and spread her long fingers of light onto the […]

]]> 5998bdf9a90190b9bb4d88b501177b4d Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39910 Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:00:44 -0500 Grater by Debby Mayer   “There’s something you should know,” was how he would put it. He would say this while she was doing something else—years later, in a Solana B […]

]]> 2d9a04bd016ce4ef31617d32fee02665 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40986 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:00:37 -0500 New Photography by Kate Salvi                         “I choose to take photos because I liked the idea of being able to stop time for a mo […]

]]> 1d637588b0d82955e2c4f563b373e5d1 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40847 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:00:34 -0500 tunneling with my friend mole by Susanne S. Rancourt into earth muffled dark with fear that i hold in risen shoulders, sacral plate, pelvis, vertebrae. my earth heart sends a radio signal, a star […]

]]> 29758bb76cacf0596a8a4b3bba1658ac Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41373 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:00:43 -0500 With a Little Help From My Friends by Trudy Hale In the pre-dawn morning, thirty-six hours before my daughter’s wedding, she enters my bedroom. Her flashlight beam wakes me. Good heavens. Half awake, […]

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