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The Intermingling of Souls: Why I Write Letters Written Jan 2021 Photo by Sheba Amante (www.photosbysheba.com ig: @photosbysheba) "To write is human, to receive a letter divine." - Susan Lendroth "How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter," wrote Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami in his 1987 novel Norwegian Wood. "To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous." I know that feeling well. I have been scribbling letters since I was a kid. I moved around a lot during … [Read more...]

Despite the Pandemic, Art Model Photography Continues! But How? Patty Hankins and Bill Lawrence explain how their art model photography business works remotely, and the value of shooting art nudes during a global pandemic. Patty Hankins and Bill Lawrence are photographers living just outside of Washington, D.C. in the Bethesda suburbs. They met in college, Duke University, in 1982. Though Bill earned his degree in biomedical engineering and Patty hers in history and public policy, they share an avocational passion: art model photography. Art model photography is a form of portraiture … [Read more...]

3 Poems: Kanga, Poem Donkeys, and Cartography by Elijah Giuliano Photos by Jonah Giuliano Your eyes are stamped with the sidereal insignia of a kanga, my sweet celestial bureaucrat. You breathe beneath the scabs of scarlet stars, like a sprung diver's reflection, suspended, scraping clean the sand-footed surface. When autumn has burned its toast, poem donkeys will cart away firegolden fish, galloping joyously back to Gary. Hastily, they deposit their music in towers of sheer glass in which the leaves rise like mercury in thermometers. Their hearts shine the dragon of a diner by … [Read more...]

Poets vs The Pandemic! Café Muse invites Grace Cavalieri and Rose Solari to bring some much-needed warmth to a chilly night! Watch and listen here! It was a magical evening! … [Read more...]

Rose Solari Describes Her Favorite Erotic Literary Scene in WIRoB Article "In Possession, the repressions of time and circumstance explode with a dazzling erotic force." "We're in England in the 1860s. Cristabel LaMotte is a poet of modest reputation and hermit-like tendencies, living with a female companion who is secretly her lover. Randolph Ash is a renowned poet stuck in a sexless marriage with a loving but frigid wife. What begins as a chance meeting develops into an increasingly passionate epistolary relationship. By the time they consummate their love - on a stolen seaside … [Read more...]