by Donovan Wheeler featured image by Jeremy Black courtesy of The Dogmatics [dropcap]Y[/dropcap]es, traditional poetry still exists. Talented writers can still settle down on a park bench, scrawl out a quatrain’s worth of observations in trochaic tetrameter, patch it together with an alternating rhyme scheme, and find a publisher who will run it through a …
By Donovan Wheeler Click Here to read a PDF version of this article Thirty minutes into their Sunday afternoon rehearsal… …in the midst of one of their newest songs, War Radio’s LaToshia “Tosh” Everson cuts out of her trademark powerful melody and turns to her husband, Joel. The rest of the band, bassist Dennis Furr …
By Patrick Barcus It’s mid-February, four degrees Fahrenheit… …minus eleven with the wind chill. Pillars of ghostly snow are picked up by the breeze and dance a ring around the Putnam County Courthouse. I sit in my car, heater cranked, waiting. My phone rings. On the other end is Gus Moon. He tells me the …
