Empty Mirror: Arts Magazine & Beat Generation Resource

Ray Manzarek

I turned my laptop on just after dawn this morning, as I usually do, and sat down with a cup of strong black coffee to see what was happening in the world. Two stories caught me like punches to the …{read more}

Pelham Bay Wilding 1957

“Have you ever been in combat, Ricker?” my spiritual advisor asked.

Pelham Bay Wilding

The Molotov cocktail burst against the wall shocking the quiet, suburban night with flames fifty feet high. The bricks of the old gothic school scattered the …{read more}

Students: A Play by Peter Rose

The living room of a student house in London. Emma sits holding a mug of tea. Robbie stands looking out of the window holding a bottle of beer. She is twenty. He is sixty.

ROBBIE: …{read more}
You think you know something

Review – Son of Kerouac, Woodstock and God: A Memoir by James Crockett

Son of Kerouac, Woodstock and God / James Crockett / 978-148125581 / 261 pages

As a young man about to embark upon a summer-long hitchhiking trip through the western United States in the mid-1970s, James Crockett was given a second-hand …{read more}

My Father

Franz Kafka wrote a long letter to his father. It said a lot of what I wanted to say to my father but did not have the words or self-composure or courage to say. So I left it on his …{read more}

Non Objective Abstraction in Acrylic and Oil Pastel

Artist’s Statement: These are from a series I did in the studio here in Trinidad this year- small paintings of acrylic and oil pastel about 11 x 14 inches. …{read more}

splake’s Magic Box

splake fishing in america. Rockford: Presa Press, 2013
only in my dreams. Springfield: Gage, 2012.
Beyond Campfire Ashes. Battle Creeek: Gage, 2012.
Backwater Bard Loft Musings. Fort Wayne: The Moon, 2009.
Le Metrop 2012. Ed …{read more}