Streetlight Magazine | Site-Wide Activity https://streetlightmag.com/activity/ Activity feed for the entire site. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:48:22 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 d51604c928b86c42769b3db05fb92289 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42801 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:00:16 -0400 Beating a Death Sentence by Bill Glose Imagine being told at your annual physical that you have a cancerous spot on your right lung. Then, in a follow-up that you have a year left to live. […]

]]> 3e9b9385aef8258b6c0ac9d2154ed907 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42279 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:00:36 -0400 Unseen Roots by Martha Snell Our touring barge plows south through Mekong waters soon to arrive in the Delta. It’s been years, yet the names of these places are still f […]

]]> 00b494aa3ae290a1728b3ac1aab8fda0 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41657 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:00:27 -0400 He Died In Her Sleep Peter Wallace     Another Medicare commercial came on TV. It was getting to be time for bed. Brad knew that if he didn’t turn off the television and get […]

]]> 4677b773475aa51b38822142216e7a6b Trudy commented on the post, The Odd and Tender Clarity of 4 AM Kathleen McKitty Harris https://streetlightmag.com/2026/08/24/the-odd-and-tender-clarity-of-4-am-kathleen-mckitty-harris/#comment-580735 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:51:01 -0400 A true gem. Thank you Kathleen. So much wisdom, personal generational history, and epiphanies packed into your sleepless night. Fantastic. Trudy

]]> 8741ae896d80b3b110e3f135da150282 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42582 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:00:54 -0400 The Odd and Tender Clarity of 4 AM Kathleen McKitty Harris   Irish-American New Yorkers—especially those of the Catholic persuasion—have a knack for fatalist worst-case scenarios. Maybe it’s the indige […]

]]> 21f5d5eb22f2675c846ca1c7f9a67ab0 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42288 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:00:09 -0400 The Language of My Body by Chibuike Ukah I don’t blame my body for its language, for keeping its sacredness secure with words, its spleen tagging towards holiness and eternity, since I d […]

]]> 208769fca91e1184c08eb4a562c8659c Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42828 Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:45 -0400 Booking It by E. H. Jacobs I was strolling with my wife in Brookline, Massachusetts, on a charming street with clothing and gift stores, Japanese restaurants, delis, and a […]

]]> 36e1f099dfabdc13b4e9fc8b90689e38 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42292 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:00:14 -0400 This year is forecast four winters and I can't save the burning world by Andreea Ceplinschi I, who have never known love like this for my kinfolk in a burning world I’m tired of loneliness rewiring this brain, tired of wasting time w […]

]]> cebe4df9fc9f4b1c7b699cf9e9ce2fbb Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42681 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:00:11 -0400 Yoga Today by Fred Wilbur   Among the activities of our local Parks and Recreation Department are youth sports (including cheerleading), a genealogy class, bingo, adult […]

]]> ea23113e6bbd609ea86986756589cf5c Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42297 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:00:33 -0400 The Bird Lives Here to Wait by Yucheng Tao ………….                                      ………To commemorate the victims of the Khmer Rouge we faced a large number of classroo […]

]]> 1a17f0ac03fa199f828824280b41386a Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42464 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:00:13 -0400 Lost Boots by Wendy Fontaine Wendy Fontaine is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2026 Essay/Memoir Contest I need to find my winter boots My daughter is home from c […]

]]> 244fa353eac3dc7f6c839dffd43b5d47 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42702 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:48 -0400 The Alley by Alex Joyner Somewhere locked in geostationary orbit over Virginia, a satellite maintains its dumb stare. Prompt it with a series of numbers and you can provoke it […]

]]> 7ab247460634bd9fed0f8ee115ea9ff9 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42316 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:58 -0400 Foie Gras by Nathan Cover “What’s wrong with pear trees?” I ask, wondering if my dad is getting senile. “Well, they’re an invasive species. They’re not allowed to sell the […]

]]> 8dfd55b5e5aa7ece7bbdc529443980fe Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42252 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0400 Not Unlike Damon and Pythias by Zachary Lundgren A friend once drove out of town so fast he didn’t know if he was headed north or south. He just wanted to make the coast and finally learn how t […]

]]> 6f16fd67f3029b99debc384b317462c3 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42649 Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:00:02 -0400 2026 Poetry Contest Announcement by Fred Wilbur As I read this year’s contest entries, I accumulated a deep appreciation for the humans who invested the thought and energy to create them and who t […]

]]> d48c85a40863e3bc5fe16620c67830c8 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42237 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:46 -0400 Bloodless by Martin Vest I don’t want to be eaten by a grizzly, my dad would say every time we were camping. But I wouldn’t want to be here if it weren’t possi […]

]]> 46ee6fec6c2f4ce68c20dd5339573b01 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42584 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:00:45 -0400 Pots for Art's Sake: A Look at Judd Jarvis's Work by Russell Hart Ceramic artist Judd Jarvis finds a thoughtful middle ground between form and function.  It’s tempting to suggest that Virginia’s famous red clay […]

]]> be9c0ec24ab03396440747604abb99bd Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42250 Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:34 -0400 The Kestrel Blues by Marjorie Gowdy   He perches      boldlyon the old phone wiredown Canning Factory Road. He sings      killy killy killya violent tune for a falconpainted in col […]

]]> 08bc67a1c050159bb091a6bb90492ee1 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42192 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:03 -0400 Splitting Wood by David Sapp It wasn’t when I got the hang of cursing, exquisitely and generously, tutored by the bigger kids at the back of the school bus. It wasn’t when I puf […]

]]> 75d44cdf4589e56220068dffbe456ec2 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42462 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:00:35 -0400 On A Scale Of . . . by Wendy Kennar Wendy Kennar is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2026 Essay/Memoir Contest Within my first few years of teaching, the district’s grading sys […]

]]> 4a617f8e8f46ff34ff61e061da0f72a9 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42246 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:00:06 -0400 Human Entanglement and Woman, Falling, 2 poems by Karl Meade Human Entanglement After they split the atom, broke our water into hydrogen, and hydrogen, and the oxygen you couldn’t breathe, we and the h […]

]]> 515d661f6efd78caf1b3d414a20652e7 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42189 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:00:57 -0400 When My Secrets Were No Longer Mine by Jean Romano One day after school, I stepped into my room and immediately felt that something was wrong. My eyes darted to the bed, and my heart stopped. The […]

]]> 0b2ae6576476e12f555ab018e24c2096 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42242 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:00:26 -0400 The hothouse by D S Maolalai   wondering at marriage; at what it’s really like and what it does to you – like: I know that I do love her but will it dislocate my bone […]

]]> 8b8122531b78bc184bba32d7c4b38cbd Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42162 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:00:14 -0400 Eileen French's Figurative Paintings Celebrate Kinship   Joy. Love. Silliness. These words come to Eileen French’s mind when asked to describe her paintings. A figurative artist at the Mc […]

]]> d2a75478aab3c8ec39ef0fadb5691fc5 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42323 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:00:39 -0400 Mind the Gap by Sharon Perkins Ackerman Sukey Gap Graveyard The road here is pocked with holes, graves strung mostly in mistflower or phlox, apt to spread airy trails. Not a place for […]

]]> fd59cc75852612fd145a46e674b2e22e Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41967 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:58 -0400 A Block Off Henderson by Chris Dahl   “The deer stood like a blessing, then vanished.” —Jane Hirschfield, “Standing Deer” And this is how it is when I see the two-point, […]

]]> fc4dd508dffe541f3eb134e4b810435d Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42331 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:00:00 -0400 Mattering To Fiona by Ginger Moran I was listening to NPR on my way home from the dentist today and it turned out to be one of those shows I carried into my house when I got […]

]]> 3ff528152af5f48396cd5e99d6ad9a06 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41822 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:00:00 -0400 Two Homes by Douglas Cole He took his bike from under the porch and rode down the driveway and out onto the sidewalk. He rode around the corner and east on 47th Street past the […]

]]> 1aa82c52931a65a34a56b352319e7c31 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42319 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:00:32 -0400 For the Sake of a Quarter by Gayla Mills If you’ve shopped at Aldi, the German-based grocery that’s expanding around the U.S., then you know their shopping cart system. You insert a qua […]

]]> eef25b4c98e6bb5dd402dc435c8004a2 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41981 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:00:24 -0400 The Lone Ranger Alone by J.R. Solonche My favorite television cowboy was the Lone Ranger because he didn’t sing, he didn’t kill Indians for the fun of it, and he wasn’t even a cowbo […]

]]> b7f88d7493a9a1ba9cff68a228ae3e82 Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41959 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:00:07 -0400 Blindsided by Wally Swist There are times when Dr. Amanda Mullen’s visage takes on that of a lion tamer about to open the locked gate to the ring where the lions are gathered f […]

]]> 55478f13c8c6165b133b0c11ac27ec55 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41919 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:00:19 -0400 Nigerian Photographer Focuses on Self Portraits Nigerian artist Imran Abiola Sulola started by taking pictures of the sun and the moon. Then in 2021, what began as a hobby changed after seeing […]

]]> af43fde0920e54329ef6e4fcea1db8f3 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41899 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:00:03 -0400 Left Behind by Claire Rubin Scott I thought it was all behind me remission said my doctor now only periodic PET scans to be sure only blood tests to double check […]

]]> a1ccdf6d75619a82f885975db27e2e38 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42150 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:23 -0400 Cadence by David Stern You don’t think about it unless you’re doing it. Coughing. The cough reflex is a critical means by which your body protects your airway from blo […]

]]> cecb4ad4fba5ebd5bd75cec6ddd7d48d Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41961 Fri, 29 May 2026 09:00:35 -0400 The Slap and the Word by Jean Romano The slap came before I could take a breath. I had just said the word “Jiao” the way Teacher Zhang had taught me, firm in my seven-year-old […]

]]> ff5d94dc6fe8083bd9a277d27501f72d Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42365 Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:25 -0400 Interests of Old by Fred Wilbur My teacher wife says that one learns by teaching. Of course, a good teacher must have mastery over the material to be taught. Another step of this […]

]]> 288c0cb1d3b7f44d50a5df7bd06e3930 Elizabeth Howard started the topic Russsell Hart Shows at McGuffey Art Center in the forum Art Shows & Exhibits https://streetlightmag.com/lamplighter-forum/topic/42406/ Sat, 23 May 2026 17:49:52 -0400
Opening Friday, June 5 | 5:30–8:00 PM
New Exhibitions: June 5–June 28
Sarah B. Smith Gallery

Russell Hart
Untold Stories
Photographs, drawings, and animations

Untold Stories incorporates three separate but somewhat related bodies of work, two of them photographs and one of them drawings. These are Immigrant Story: Ghosts of Ellis Isl…[Read more]

]]> 7c7a1d0a32d6d4360fcc315382091825 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42049 Fri, 22 May 2026 11:00:25 -0400 Accent by Abraham Kedong Ali   I write in an accent interposed by war school closure, hunger and starvation. I write in an accent interposed by the absence of my father, […]

]]> 9a76f980477b9b1105c20f002b25fca2 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42144 Mon, 18 May 2026 11:00:15 -0400 The Man in the Golden Helmet by Harry Lee James I first saw “The Man In the Golden Helmet” in 1976 on a street corner in Monterey California. At that time he was labeled as “The C […]

]]> d7fc76430b70731a7120d3a69dbb4f00 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40980 Fri, 15 May 2026 04:50:37 -0400 A Tavern in The Village by David W. Berner Black-faced sheep stand still in the valley along the Great Western Railway line, filling their bellies with the grass of the English countryside. […]

]]> d46994c81cd2fe0782c6267bb9d79769 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42042 Fri, 15 May 2026 04:50:36 -0400 Jasper Johns by Charles Rummelkamp   I read in the paper today was the birthday of the artist Jasper Johns, 95. I didn’t realize he was still alive. I remember him from Art Hi […]

]]> b8c0c06889021531d7e6da9f8a42a71d Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41950 Fri, 15 May 2026 04:50:15 -0400 Zoom Pleas by Anthony J. Mohr Along with her missing teeth, Ms. Goway’s head and puff of white hair were all I saw on the screen. She rattled her handcuffs and said she would try […]

]]> c37ebd97b1f5323de068ca4b5a89ce1a Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41783 Mon, 11 May 2026 12:00:31 -0400 Mixed Media Artist Jennifer Billingsly   There are mobiles of paper goldfinches flying, falling raindrops, and flower bursts along with fanciful collages and small, carefully […]

]]> f73e6b51f535f26378981adeb36442ab Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42047 Fri, 08 May 2026 11:00:46 -0400 Ode to a Safety Pin by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg   Genius of oval, ovum, overlap capable of great feats, holding back the waterfall of too much cleavage or in my case, too vast a high […]

]]> b5e29623e15a8232f4a820775196d965 Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42308 Mon, 04 May 2026 11:00:37 -0400 Our Winners by Susan Shafarzek We’re happy to announce the winners of the 2026 Streetlight Essay/Memoir contest. First Prize goes to Wendy Kennar for “On a Scale Of . . . ”, […]

]]> e3bcc0749cf84911ba3e0a94c1675b8c Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41943 Fri, 01 May 2026 10:00:52 -0400 The Anxious Overthinker's Guide to Conception by Sarah Stubbs OCTOBER I awaken with a visceral heaviness, like dread, in my lower belly. My phone informs me it’s hours before dawn. Peering around the t […]

]]> 05abb85271cc80e5f171f5b56034b8b6 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42261 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:00:19 -0400 Darkness Over America by Fred Wilbur Twenty five hundred years ago, the Buddha propounded (among other ideas) that nothing in existence is permanent. Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-C […]

]]> d0bc256c571633137022f395a3aba641 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41685 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:00:56 -0400 It's Raining by Ben Sloan   At age five, after my country doctor grandfather dies, fascinated by the black-and-white photos in his discarded depression-era medical books […]

]]> c2d5627bf80449888f305c566eec6ab1 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42127 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:00:18 -0400 Coming Down the Mountain by E. H. Jacobs The way down is always harder than the way up. On the way up a mountain, your muscles strain to push you vertically. Going down, you’re already t […]

]]> 05e79ebc2f83c5866a2af93efc64d6c1 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41742 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:00:15 -0400 The Moon by Kenneth Boyd ………………………………………………………….Tarsila do Amaral (Brazil, 1928) Since you last crossed the still, moonlit […]

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