Streetlight Magazine | Site-Wide Activity https://streetlightmag.com/activity/ Activity feed for the entire site. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:55:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 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 […]

]]> 67a4aeb50f2e143bd8cf6e12a66233c8 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42198 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:00:21 -0400 Good Friday by Kathleen McKitty Harris   My Irish Catholic grandmother—no slouch herself to rosary beads and the Stations of the Cross—had a friend, Wilma, who was far more pious than […]

]]> 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 […]

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