Streetlight Magazine | Site-Wide Activity https://streetlightmag.com/activity/ Activity feed for the entire site. Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:55:03 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

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