Polyphonic Playground
Polyphonic Playground: Paintings & Drawings by Cedric Michael Cox @ FiveMyles, Brooklyn, New York
David Johnson: In Memoriam
David Johnson: In Memoriam Many of us were shocked and horrified to learn of David Johnson’s tragic and untimely death last week. David was our colleague, a superb teacher, curator, educator, who enriched the visual arts with his knowledge, hard work and frequent wit. I first met him way back when Carl Solway was developing what […]
Book Review: Transatlantic, by Colum McCann
Book Review: Transatlantic, by Colum McCann Transatlantic, by Colum McCann, is a contemporary literary masterpiece. In a year where most fiction has been ordinary, his accomplishment seems that much greater. McCann, l like other living Irish writers (Coim Toibin and Edna O’Brien come immediately to mind) has that true Irish gift for language, and for […]
Maxwell’s Poetry Corner
Poetry By Maxwell Redder An Audacious Escape Now parked, I saw the firefly ascending from my truck bed. His fluorescent tube acted as a gentle jetpack, a hovercraft, an audacious escape. Relaxing on rusty vacant bolt holes previously used to clasp the cap, he did not recognize my turning ignition signified a twelve mile […]
MOTHER DRINKING HER MORNING COFFEE
MOTHER DRINKING HER MORNING COFFEE By Louis Zoeller Bickett It is a hot, late summer, Saturday morning. Mother is sitting at the kitchen table overlooking the back yard. She is wrapped in her pink satin robe as if a chill had enveloped her in winter. She is having her morning coffee. The morning will soon […]
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor The summer issue of aeqai combines the months of July and August. and is now available to our readers. We assure you that many of the shows recently opened are some of the best of the year: once upon a time, in the fifties, for example, most visual arts programming was […]