2023-11-14 16:18
Alison Stone Too Real In myths, the would-be prey escapes by changing into tree or bird. The audience at the Israeli music festival was trapped in their human skin. A pair of lovers mutilate… Read More
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2023-11-13 16:36
2023-11-12 18:57
Michael E. Stone The little girl with a white wicker basket full of petals and sprinkles, that starry paints the heavens, her eyes sparkling jewels dewdrops at dawn unsullied still. She make… Read More
2023-11-10 07:18
Poetry and Art after October 7, 2023 Devorah Roytenberg CharashCeramicist / Photographer Michael DickelPoet ‘Round Midnight I — No lullaby will do But it really gets bad 'Round m… Read More
2023-11-08 16:36
Karen Alkalay-Gut 1. No one tells it yet Not the whole story How long would it take you to speak of your child wounded in the chest but still breathing when her arm is sliced off? Ah, how co… Read More
2023-11-06 16:36
2023-11-04 18:08
a perspective on the impact of 10/07/2023 I am against war although I concede that some wars, regrettably, may be necessary. I understand the history and context of what we call “The M… Read More
2023-09-12 14:27
"As the long, hot days of summer wore on, something new began to churn and build inside me. It had been there for a long time…", thus begins Paul Rabinowitz's flash fiction on Meta/ P… Read More
2023-05-02 15:36
—Michael Dickel I look at the time on my phone. “Time to get the girl,” I think. So sit up in bed, swing my legs over the side, and put on my shoes. I see my wife working o… Read More
2023-04-23 14:41
Note: If you’re viewing with a phone, I recommend landscape (sideways) for a better effect. Turn this page We smell the fish of state rotting from the Prime Minister. He says he desire… Read More
2023-04-20 15:18
Volume 10 sustainABILITY Issue 1climate crisis and eco-economics The BeZine is a Read More
2023-04-20 08:36
for Sim Your mother survived the Shoah. This year, you left the world on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day. The last time we saw each other— a Shabbat meal together here in Jerusalem… Read More
2023-01-17 05:12
Volume 9 Life of the Spirit and Activism Issue 4fuel for change Read More
2022-11-23 14:46
Originally posted on The BeZine: Michael Rothenberg On Monday, 21 November 2022, at around 11 PM EST, Michael Rothenberg left the world. Even though I he had told me that he had cancer and I… Read More
2022-09-18 12:45
Volume 9 Social Justice Issue 3listening, learning, reaching out Read More
2022-08-11 12:05
Originally posted on The BeZine: In the Jewish tradition, our first words on hearing of the death of someone are usually Baruch Dayan Ha’Emet, Blessed is the True Judge. It reminds us… Read More
2022-07-06 08:50
The Summer 2022 issue of The BeZine, Waging Peace: balancing personal and global issues Read More
2022-07-06 08:44
My latest poem on Fevers of the Mind, titled Aging Vessel Read More
2022-05-26 08:05
Join us for a mind- & genre-b(l)ending evening of performances by Adeena Karasick, Guy Dolev, & Michael Dickel (w/MC: Lonnie Monka). June 06 2022, 20:15, Besarabia Bar, Jerusalem Doo… Read More
2022-05-24 15:12
I have recently started as an invited “wolfpack contributor” on Fevers of the Mind. Read my poem Twelve Hours in Amsterdam, and more to come. Amsterdam Tulip Museum (scene of the… Read More
2022-03-17 13:45
Volume 9 sustainABILITY & Ukraine Peace &nbs&hell…Read More
2021-12-21 10:02
Originally posted on The BeZine: The??BeZine Volume 8??????????????????Life of the Spirit??????????????????Issue 4 Life of the SpiritandHealing Browse the whole issue Introduction & Tabl… Read More
2021-10-04 15:36
Long Island Bedroom Window Series Michael Dickel The photos in this series show East-facing side-by-side windows and their reflections in a dresser mirror on the West wall of a Long Island r… Read More
2021-10-03 16:03
Originally posted on The BeZine: The??BeZine Volume 8??????????????????September 15, 2021??????????????????Issue 3 Social JusticeandHunger Browse the whole issue Cover art: Exchange 1900&nda&hell…Read More
2021-03-31 15:36
Layering Time—Armageddon NFTs
This is my first venture in selling NFTs of my digital art. I walked through the ruins (Tel) of the ancient Canaanite city of Megiddo, which the Greeks c… Read More
2021-03-15 16:36
The Spring Issue of The BeZine has arrived! Check out the new look… The BeZine Volume 8 … Read More
2021-01-18 16:36
From Blake's "America a Prophecy" to the vicissitudes of history, this hyper-illuminated hybrid responds to the sedition of January 6, 2021: Weary History on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play Read More
2020-12-24 13:03
Originally posted on The BeZine: Untitled IVG Jamie Dedes Introduction What a year 2020 has been: global pandemic, international instabilities, U.S. election turmoil. So much. We here at The… Read More
2020-11-17 06:57
Originally posted on The BeZine: Jamie Dedes, z”l.May her memory be for a blessing. We received this note November 8, 2020. We lost our beloved founding editor and editor-in-chief emer… Read More
2020-09-26 12:51
Originally posted on The BeZine: The BeZine’s Live 100TPC Event(Asynchronous) Poetry, Music, ArtforPeace, Sustainability, Social Justice Poetry. It’s better than war! —Mich… Read More
2020-09-23 14:02
Originally posted on The BeZine: Saturday, 26 September 2020 at: 3 PM (Jerusalem, Kenya 2 PM (Botswana, Egypt, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe) 1 PM (Nigeria) 12 Noon (Sierra Leone) 8 AM (US… Read More
2020-09-14 05:55
Originally posted on The BeZine: It’s our pleasure and privilege to announce the winners of the 2021 Banner Contest for The BeZine 100TPC! The competition was fierce and our outside ju… Read More
2020-08-10 05:25
Originally posted on The BeZine: One Lifetime After Another one day, you’ll see, i’ll come back to hobnob with ravens, to fly with the crows at the moment of apple blossoms and t… Read More
2020-07-01 17:05
Originally posted on The BeZine: Are you artistically inclined? Do you believe in raising awareness about important issues like Peace, Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice? Would… Read More
2020-04-13 15:36
…it was a most surprising thing to see those streets which were usually so thronged now grown desolate… —Daniel DeFoe, A Journal of the Plague Year (read an excerpt on Me… Read More
2020-03-27 20:39
Wombwell Rainbow Interviews: gary lundy Wombwell Rainbow Interviews: gary lundy — Read on thewombwellrainbow.com/2020/03/27/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-gary-lundy/ Read More
2020-03-11 19:36
“…the ailing body points to culture, pain points to philosophy, language points to consciousness, and all point to what is still to be learned about our fragility, our mortality… Read More
2019-11-21 14:53
2019-09-19 08:43
Originally posted on The BeZine: Social Justice as the world burns and wars rage Global protest actions on the Climate Crisis have been scheduled for September, as fires rage from the Arcti… Read More
2019-07-21 15:36
"Death is a tribe," five poem from Linda Chown on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play accompanied by four digital artworks by Michael Dickel. Check out their work… Read More
2019-07-16 15:36
A new poem, Kiddush on the Solstice, and new digital landscapes, HaEtz HaChaim 1–7, from Michael Dickel on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play Read More
2019-07-05 05:18
Originally posted on Miombo Publishing: Mother Africa survived the trauma of clanging chains of captivity during SLAVE TRADE , shackles of colonialism and winced from beatings of hard bolt n… Read More
2019-07-01 15:36
"Somewhere, a whirring fan
in an open window spins
possibilities into threads.”
—a poem from Nothing Remembers, by Michael Dickel, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press Read More
2019-06-26 07:05
From The Poet by Day by Jamie Dedes— The memoriesof living fall around the livesonce lived, leave a hole in thepumice. The emptiness fills with words –narrative and song. That is… Read More
2019-06-13 15:36
Steven Sher ((Shlomo Yashar) has six poems in Meta/ Phor(e) /Play) ranging through memory, seeking clarity in shadows as the one searching for his beloved in Sher’s poem, Beshert&helli&hell…Read More
2019-06-10 08:41
Originally posted on Miombo Publishing: ? MOZA IS OUR COUNTRY : 2019 arrived with omens of bad luck of death, hunger and disease. Maybe Gods are angry or bad devils are at it again. Th… Read More
2019-05-30 15:36
If you would like to read my new collection, please order before June 28, 2019. Finishing Line Press will use the number of orders by that date to determine the print run for the book Read More
2019-05-27 15:36
description a conversation outside
ordinary headline breaths — 6 poems by gary lundy on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play Read More
2019-01-22 16:36
In·tri·ca·tion | \ ˌin‧trə̇ˈkāshən, -trēˈ-\ 1 obsolete : complication, complexity; 2 : interre… Read More
2019-01-17 16:36
Kinga Fabó provides metaphysical glimpses of someone else in the mirror, with commentary translator George Szirtes Read More
2019-01-01 11:22
24 January 2019 — 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. In English January 24, 6:30 P.M. Mystic Mountain Studio and Brewery2 RevitskyTzfat, Israel 13221Map RSVP on Facebook Featured poets Shlomo S… Read More
2018-12-20 16:36
Dennis Formento reflects on Snyder, Di Prima, environmental & urban poetics, & his stasis + 14 haiku from Spirit Vessels Read More
2018-12-16 16:36
Five poems from Jerusalem, written by Ester Karen Aida, on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play Read More
2018-10-02 17:19
Originally posted on THE BeZINE: Now a SoundCloud playlist! Thanks to 100 Thousand Poets for Change co-founders Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion, and especially to our 100TPC friend, Voi… Read More
2018-10-01 08:36
Originally posted on THE BeZINE: It was a tough. TOUGH! If I could I would nominate everyone who has contributed, but there were constraints on the types of submissions, dates of publi… Read More
2018-09-29 10:23
A late elementary school (middle grades and up) exercise for writing a peace poem Read More
2018-09-29 06:58
Originally posted on THE BeZINE: “Poetry. It’s better than war!” Michael Rothenberg, cofounder of 100,000 Poets (and friends) for Change “It is from numberless divers… Read More
2018-08-28 14:00
News and updates from Meta/ Phor(e) /Play — Michael Dickel has a new book coming from Finishing Line Press, M/P/P has earned some recognition Read More
2018-08-06 15:36
In this new short fiction from Michael Dickel, the woman with a beard encounters another ghost from her past and considers the sea Read More
2018-07-17 15:36
Two elegiac poems by Michael Dickel | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play Read More
2018-07-07 07:08
Originally posted on THE POET BY DAY: “Pithy and powerful, poetry is a popular art form at protests and rallies. From the civil rights and women’s liberation movements to Black L… Read More
2018-07-04 20:02
I want to remember Independence Day for the ideals of the United States, which it has almost never lived up to. As Langston Hughes titled his famous poem: “Let America Be America… Read More
2018-06-27 15:36
Six haiku ranging from current events to nature to mystery, from Brazilian poet and translator Thaís Fernandes Read More
2018-06-23 06:33
This from National Public Radio shows that the long-term trend for over a decade shows decreasing migrants crossing the border. The increase the administration has been citing as an excuse f… Read More
2018-06-21 11:22
The gang-boss (I hesitate to call him POTUS) of the National RICO Criminal Enterprise (aka the Trump-GOP Gang), has moved to end the crimes against humanity of kidnapping refugee children fr… Read More
2018-06-20 15:52
It’s time to return to the 1960s tactics of the Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements. It’s time to hit the streets! Strike! Moratorium! Protest! Get in the faces of the fascists!… Read More
2018-05-24 15:36
Amanda Palmer and Jasmine Power have combined haunting, almost ghost-like voices singing memories into a powerful anthem for women taking back their own narrative—taking the script (wr… Read More
2018-04-02 18:42
Book review of gary lundy's poetry collection, "each room echoes absence," plus six new poems of his Read More
2018-02-22 16:36
A HamiltonSeen film by Cody Lanktree of Michael Dickel reading his poem, "But Hear the Dissonance, 1948-2012." Read More
2018-02-10 23:31
I have readings in Gainesville (14th) and Tallahassee (16th), Florida, next week, and one in Hamilton, Ontario (23rd), the following week. Find the details on my Event Page! Please come if y… Read More
2018-01-15 08:41
Originally posted on THE POET BY DAY: “That some of those labelled as enemies have crossed the lines to offer condolences at the mourning tents; that the mourning families spoke to eac… Read More
2017-12-18 16:36
Three social-political activist poems from James D. Casey IV on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play Read More
2017-10-11 16:53
Originally posted on antinarrative journal: Bio: Michael Dickel’s work appears in several print and online publications. He co-edited Voices Israel Volume 36, was managing ed… Read More
2017-10-10 23:22
Moon Song, Driving it Home and Keeping it There, Vanishing Act | Three Poems by Jennifer Juneau | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play Read More
2017-10-05 15:36
She enjoyed scavenging—three poems by Meg Harris: Memory, Bird Sanctuary, and Travel Read More
2017-09-30 21:12
Originally posted on THE BeZINE: This year, the last Saturday of September, the regular day for the Global 100,000 Poets for Change Events around the world, falls on Yom Kippur, considered t… Read More
2017-09-25 15:36
Michael Stone takes us from memory through observation to hope—three poems on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play Read More
2017-09-21 15:36
Three poems from Karen Alkalay-Gut: What I need, I am a connoisseur of insomnia, and Avishag Speaks Read More
2017-09-19 16:49
Originally posted on THE POET BY DAY: We invite you to share your most passionate works expressing kindness and human connection and the ways that together we might heal the degradation and… Read More
2017-09-18 15:36
Three poems about Barnsley from Paul Brookes—A Shock of Gold, Buried Treasure, and "Abandoned Workings." Read More
2017-09-14 15:36
Two poems by Hungarian poet Kinga Fabó, translated into English by George Szirtes Read More
2017-09-11 15:36
Three selected excerpts from Krysia Jopek's Hourglass Studies, forthcoming from Crisis Chronicles Press Read More
2017-09-07 21:43
Six poems by gary lundy—through sights and sounds into observations close and deep Read More
2017-08-01 15:18
Five poems from By a Lake Near a Moon: Fishing with the Chinese Masters—Adaptations from Kenneth Rexroth’s 100 Poems from the Chinese Read More
2017-07-25 15:18
Tuvi Ornat goes out for a walk, ends up in a cave. Could it be Plato’s? | Short Story | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play Read More
2017-07-23 15:18
Visual poetry/commentary/sociology/whatever it is to you. Nex(+)us by Michael Dickel on Meta/Phor(e)/Play Read More
2017-06-22 15:36
Coffee Bruise Thursday for a cup of gary lundy's poetry—3 emotionally-caffeinated poems Read More
2017-06-15 23:32
Michael Dickel’s poem, ”epistemological metaphysics of rhetorical hallucinations," explores a mind Read More
2017-06-12 15:36
A flight of fancy—escape through language, desire, politics—an end game—a poem by Michael Dickel Read More
2017-06-08 15:36
Coffee Bruise Thursday features two poems from Reuben Woolley—different forms of loss, here we fall… Meta/ Phor(e) / Play Read More
2017-06-06 13:36
Saint Yellow’s Gate Revisited Mike Stone Raanana, March 24, 2017 Through light Saint Yellow’s gate I’ve fled Leaves long fallen, trees long dead To come full circle as she… Read More
2017-06-01 15:36
Four poems, comprising some family history narrative | Paul Brookes | Meta/Phor(e)/Play Read More
2017-05-30 15:36
These 3 poems by gary lundy dance to music & drink coffee—reading your meaning, meaning your reading Read More
2017-05-28 18:02
I am honored to have my chapbook published by Locofo Chaps, out of Chicago. William Allegrezza, Moria Poetry and Locofo Chaps editor, has been publishing anti-Trump administration chap… Read More
2017-05-25 15:36
Three poems & a Haiku sequence, written winter to spring—glimpses of the world through Mike Stone's eyes Read More
2017-05-23 15:36
Yarrow's poems—three pas de deux partnering memory & family in delicate ballet | Meta/ Phor(e) / Play Read More
2017-05-18 15:36
Adeena Karasick takes us on a satiric tour through the shards and fragments of literary and post-consumerist culture Read More
2017-05-16 15:36
Stone's An Idea for a Short Story shows poems’ & stories’ value in being human. | Sunday Brunch Tuesday | MPP Read More
2017-05-15 15:36
Honesty and Transparency, the Post Truth Era—the latest issue of The BeZine, is up. I lent a hand in its publication, and have two poems and an essay in this May edition. Stop by at Th… Read More
2017-05-11 15:36
A song for the times—simple chords & words. The Rains of Babylon | Bruised Coffee Thursday | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play Read More
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