Ragged Sky Press

16/05/2025

Ragged Sky poet Tom McGuire on Vox Populi this week.

I’ve come to half believe what Ho Chi Minh said about his need for more poets who could lead a charge, sharpen bayonets.

31/03/2025

Poems for uncertain times.

Wait. Something I had never thought to see again clanks forward from obscurity- that creaky train I’d once been riding on, a journey slow and grim.

20/03/2025

A classical outlook.

As he has gained fame and power, Trump’s contemptuous rage at his opponents and his appetite for vengeance appear to have sharpened.

20/03/2025

A Dylan aficionado...

There’s nothing easy-going about the folk songs of the Greenwich Village revival, not the ones Dylan sang — a man-killing woman, catastrophic floods, a man driven insane by love — songs that taught…

10/03/2025

The best kind of commentary.

The lesson I draw over and over is, everything can change in a moment. All that you have is lent.

05/02/2025

A Ragged Sky poet is also a Dylan aficionado.

The popularity and critical success — a not-easy-to-achieve combo — have to do not only with the singular genius of Dylan, an unknown 19-year-old bohemian who becomes the icon of an era, but also w…

12/12/2024

From McGuire's new poetry collection. Thanks, Vox Populi.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust  doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.  —Matthew 6:19-21 . Rust ruins metal everywhere. Da…

15/10/2024

Magpie behavior...

Intent on witnessing interactions between magpies and members of the genus elgaria, a scientist released an alligator lizard into a large enclosure housing three captive magpies.

03/06/2024

Thanks Vox Populi...

So far the nights feel lonelier than the days. In light, the living keep me company, and memories of voices through the years.

21/03/2024

If you are in Pittsburgh this is a great opportunity to hear Arlene's poetry.

The reading series usually takes place upstairs at the Ragged Edge Coffeehouse (110 Chambersburg street in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) at 7:00pm on the First Friday of the month. We take a break in...

07/03/2024

I'll be doing my farewell hosting and introducing the new hosts as the series continues.

New Jersey poets Coleen Marks and Joy Kreves read from their works as part of Princeton Makes' monthly second Sunday poetry presentation.

25/02/2024

Arlene Weiner's testament to being inured to violence.
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