New Issue of Ray’s Road Review!

I'm pleased to announce the publication of the Summer 2014 edition of Ray's Road Review. We have some excellent fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and photography. Please read and enjoy. (However, please don't submit any poetry right now, because I'm swamped with submissions.) The poets we feature in this issue are Charlie O'Hay, Scott Laudati, Jona McNerney, …

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My 400th Blog Post

This is my 400th blog post. That's pretty big. I started here on WordPress back in June 2011 after leaving Xanga. I don't write every day like I did for years on Xanga, but I try to put something out there on a fairly regular basis. Of course, over the past year or so, many …

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New Issue of RRR Out!

Spring is finally here and that means the Spring 2014 issue of Ray's Road Review has been published. Check it out at raysroadreview.com. Read and submit. We especially need nonfiction. Among the poets published, we have Doug Draime, D.A. Spruzen, Erren Kelly, Thomas Piekarski, David Cravens, and the always great Lyn Lifshin. Feel free to …

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A Review of Hazardous Duty

Hazardous Duty by David H. Hackworth My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an excellent book written by a military hero who sees a lot wrong with the military industrial complex, politics, and the military itself, calls it like he sees it, and offers solutions to the problems he points out. It should be …

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2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,900 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to …

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