Streetlight Magazine | Fred Wilbur | Activity https://streetlightmag.com/members/fredwilbur/activity/ Activity feed for Fred Wilbur. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:09:40 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> a588a5d0583fcb7ea6acce9a4db45c25 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40559 Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:00:32 -0500 The Book of Nights by Richard Oyama My father dulled his surmise. He rang the register, count ‘em Greenback and copper upon the eye. Blue black fell on Harlem. He poured the day i […]

]]> c7dcf34de9bbda9a9b0a8180b04da517 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40501 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:00:27 -0400 Abroad by Brent Short We are pilgrims in the earth and strangers— we come from afar and we are going far. –Vincent van Gogh Abroad for some time now following our f […]

]]> ceb1343ef90d7be474a095a606bcfc1e Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41282 Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:00:37 -0400 Journal of Absence by Fred Wilbur If you make a quick on-line search about loneliness in America, you may be surprised that between twenty to thirty-three percent of the population […]

]]> 4fdbac2bc43ec78f7dec30ec1a9b17c7 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40810 Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:00:19 -0400 Father's Day by Rebecca Faulkner Rebecca Faulkner is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2025 Poetry Contest Father’s Day Mum says I have a new family now, matter-of-fact with […]

]]> fb84c8b1ca623f6638cb3e7f8b96143c Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40801 Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:00:35 -0400 Of All the Qualities She Could Have Inherited by Abby Murray Abby Murray is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2025 Poetry Contest   Of All the Qualities She Could Have Inherited She carries my […]

]]> cf4b50eb90e35b09848d454200d2420b Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40556 Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:00:26 -0400 The Tet Offensive by Debbie Collins They tried to protect us from the TV as it vomited unspeakable news straight from Cronkite, night after night Age six, I snuck looks at the […]

]]> 694878dc55018e7732ab4d79b31c4986 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40436 Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:00:16 -0400 Hope by Carlene M. Gadapee Remember that time you spent five whole dollars on a ticket to win a calf at the fair? What you thought we’d do with a little cow, I have no i […]

]]> 3d650a7f80609be04da2022f3e6963da Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40956 Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:00:33 -0400 Let the Leaves Turn by Fred Wilbur   I possess a book on reading at the beach. How to Read a North Carolina Beach* is one of those few books you need a beach to enjoy fully, one […]

]]> c13e937af17c57115dc84cd57dd02696 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40345 Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:00:40 -0400 We Need Appointments to See Friends by Gerald Yelle Because we didn’t ask Abraham to do anything we wouldn’t do ourselves. We don’t owe him any explanation. Let him think it’s revenge in advance […]

]]> e61d3058f871d17668fb02ce17015fb7 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40341 Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:00:58 -0400 A Dead Love by Chibuike Ukah My father stared at me like a rose full of lint. He was wondering how living haunted me, spreading through my face and body, how it serenaded me […]

]]> 3767bea0b4d998686225e4b96e3b907f Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40773 Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:00:35 -0400 Poetry Contest Winners for 2025 by Sharon Ackerman and Fred Wilbur   We are excited to announce the Streetlight Poetry Contest winners for this year. But first, several observations: we are pleased with your […]

]]> 6f3c73bd724b98f4dee84be98586b077 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40337 Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:00:25 -0400 Thinking of Queen Elizabeth While Waiting for My Son at Dance Class and The Solitary Mare, 2 poems by Sarah Lilius Thinking of Queen Elizabeth While Waiting for My Son at Dance Class The Queen’s body, enclosed in leadand English Oak, shifts forward for six h […]

]]> 6835addb05f396683fc80834017dac92 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39996 Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:00:58 -0400 'Round Midnight by Terry Huff                                                      for Thelonious Monk I have a table for one at The Five Spot Cafe. Monk is on stage with Miles […]

]]> 19d665f1cfbabeb4481fc1d11f9789fe Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39994 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:00:39 -0400 Playing Mahler at Minus Twenty by Katrin Talbot Windchill, the minor key that blows in with the horns Tremolo, a shimmer of ice, the roads we drive to rehearsal Crunchy German, heftig, […]

]]> 6d95927627616af84c82d3d00fd9f5ee Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40439 Mon, 26 May 2025 13:00:17 -0400 A Confession by Fred Wilbur We usually consider mea culpas as good things, honest actions, purges of guilt, wiping clean the chalk smudged slates (to start again.) We want to […]

]]> 70a27b5d79cca9d8be534d2964ebe01b Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39967 Fri, 23 May 2025 10:00:11 -0400 Satellite Dream Dish and Blackberry Picking, 2 poems by Charles Mines Satellite Dream Dish Another dream where I’m in trouble for being naked.And the NSA is scoffing at my latest memoir, Songs for Getting Drunk i […]

]]> 4547788148d2db4266f555d6446b1d16 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39959 Fri, 16 May 2025 12:00:50 -0400 Now She Resembles James Dean by Eric Forsbergh   Do you notice anything? Her comment, laid down like a mark. Often I’m the kid caught napping in a class. But not today. She came home wi […]

]]> 6e5c4057647215ee676aedde36c4745f Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40202 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 12:00:00 -0400 Our Age of Irony by Fred Wilbur What is the color of irony? This may be a silly notion, but we have given color designations to various kinds of writing. Yellow Journalism (today’s C […]

]]> 764cbeb58d8c9917c8431a0f07ed7402 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40127 Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:00:17 -0400 Emily as She Ate the Flower by Darren Demaree If you can fit the beauty in your mouth what makes you brave, to spit it out or to let the giver of gifts see you make it yours forever? […]

]]> 8e7ba8207995a0c205ad295edb668aac Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39828 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:00:48 -0400 My Husband Texting by Maureen Clark he texts me a photograph of the bear scat he found under the chokecherry bush which is bent to the ground stripped on one side of all its red […]

]]> 7105fcd79ea6677c0a9e7e0ed54982e3 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39822 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:00:55 -0400 Becoming by Bill Glose When the ceramic tile shattered, I was ashamed I hadn’t cared better for this piece of art created by a friend, one part of a quadriptych. All I […]

]]> b335117e56afdd5f0665a8f480f09616 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39549 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:00:42 -0500 Respite by Joseph Kleponis All is quiet; the winds have subsided; The storm’s dissonance is behind us. Sideways rain and sleet that tore through the night Have jeweled b […]

]]> 4d226f098dc20f122a7fcd938241a9c7 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39544 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:00:54 -0500 Self Driving to Eternity by Chibuike Ukah I stretched out my legs before me, ready to bury my dead bodies, when my boss invited me to his office and made me an immoral offer. He pleaded […]

]]> ca0bff3acf94c6689fcb50d581663e75 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39869 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:00:22 -0500 Questions to Ask a Poem by Fred Wilbur Poem, come in, sit down. How are you getting along? Are people reading your ordinary troubles? Let’s talk about that. (I hear my fatherly voice: p […]

]]> 96c1a6e2a273e68508dc21603cf78e42 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39541 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:00:00 -0500 A Plum on a Tree by Roselyn Elliott   In the ER, we try to save them all, yet, each death of a stranger is a small death inside me, an accumulation of failed effort that […]

]]> 9411db61e63f98cda3129c7cbd4c16fe Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39265 Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:00:55 -0500 Still Life with Bulldozer and Backhoe by Cindy Buchanan   In the empty lot across the street they graze on ground scrape and grind — diesel sculptors of land and sound that rumble words shatter li […]

]]> 9246f463db2fb39d8ca90a021da786c9 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39257 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:00:43 -0500 The Audience Beneath by Holly Day The worms are writing a song in my garden, rustling their slick bodies through the leaves in a rising crescendo, inspired by the rain. If one were […]

]]> 862731b8b247e55105a17887b6a6461a Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38932 Fri, 03 Jan 2025 12:00:33 -0500 Trick of the Eye: Fresh Roasted by Richard Elliott Martin If you want a free lunch, All you have to do is smash, bleed, and work for it. Would you like some peanuts for lunch? Free sample, the sign on the […]

]]> 7853706e4deb5ac298a20d1c46817ff0 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38927 Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:00:25 -0500 Teaching by J.R. Solonche Teaching, too, is labor. Everyday to be up to the task, everyday the master of a hundred worlds, of casual words, and of causal words, to confront […]

]]> e4e276237d53cee665d942aaf334dc7d Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39412 Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:00:45 -0500 A Bragging Humility by Fred Wilbur   “It is true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own pers […]

]]> 19332db29202bdfccb08753b716eee82 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38745 Fri, 22 Nov 2024 08:00:12 -0500 First Car Accident by Alisha Goldblatt Tucked in her shell of gutsy metal, an errant art teacher spun my car into a snow bank. We shook after the collision, the grab handle, Jesus, […]

]]> cbde6338d85d186a8a4df1d63bbf7d2c Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38723 Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:00:53 -0500 Jack Gilbert Keeps Lilacs Alive in his Head by Deborah Doolittle   The lilacs hid the remains of a porch it used to screen. The hints of joints and steps leading up and between. Stone remnants of a […]

]]> 000ed843f6b0669e47736eeaf97e34c0 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38726 Fri, 08 Nov 2024 14:00:56 -0500 When the Spring Winds are Strong, Wolf Spiders Balloon by Gary D. Grossman   They’re up on the branch tips, all eight legs en pointe— one hundred and four chitinous arachnids, their tutus matching leafless twigs. Thes […]

]]> 44b13aee95dd7a33b5a7973991d55291 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38705 Fri, 01 Nov 2024 09:00:55 -0400 Maxed Out by Jason Montgomery This year my credit card company sent me a birthday card. In simple red, white and blue it wished me a happy birthday from Credit One. It is nice […]

]]> 68a4ce413bb3a5600f4882d49d8f725a Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39271 Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:00:33 -0400 Water, Water, Everywhere: Lessons of Water by Fred Wilbur   “If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” —Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle […]

]]> 0afc94480416a6f25f154a575150e4be Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38643 Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:00:35 -0400 The red onion by Deborrah Corr Deborrah Corr has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest The red onion is a purple globe. I hold it, let my skin adore […]

]]> 29c4a2fe5d1fe79f9abad5b07b77f1d0 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38322 Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:00:40 -0400 Plop by Mary Walsh Plop A Rorschach inkblot appears on the cement before me. I veer to avoid the disgusting mess. Weirdly white for a germ filled poop, I fail to […]

]]> f78eb6e9ec8cfd14a411f7ef381e60eb Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38438 Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:00:04 -0400 Mentor by Jeanne Julian for Alfred Kern,1924-2009                 Search Amazon for his novel,               The Width of Waters, and you get                No Image […]

]]> 030613c7a67bc8c88f8f23cb6c69c568 Fred Wilbur wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38128 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:00:12 -0400 Little Napalm Girl by Jean Mikhail On the black and white TV, we watched silently, as an American soldier fell into a field of static like he was falling fast asleep, tumbling down […]

]]> 98078b0a168b2b46284efad8335a5974 Fred Wilbur commented on the post, Writing For A Generation by Joel F. Johnson https://streetlightmag.com/2024/08/26/street-talk-writing-for-a-generation-by-joel-f-johnson/#comment-528545 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 15:38:47 -0400 Provocative blog and a book sure to be read. Thanks, Joel.

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