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The House of Representatives: a review by Peter Mladinic of "You’ve got it all wrong" by Ken Tomaro

Thank you to Peter Mladinic for this excellent review of Ken Tomaro's latest collection. [Sensitive Content Warning]The House of Representatives: a review of You’ve got it all wrong, by Ken Tomaro. Prolific Pulse Press. Raleigh, NC. 2025. $12.95 paper.Reviewed by Peter MladinicJust as there are representatives in politics, poetry too has its representatives, one difference being: there’s no party…

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Peter Mladinic's "The Light of Day," a review of "Yellow Chrysanthemum"

The Light of Day, a review of Yellow Chrysanthemum by Munmun Samanta. Prolific Pulse LLC. Raleigh, North Carolina. 2025. In “Sia’s Dream of Dawn” a woman is alone in a garden, thinking, and very attuned to her surroundings. Readers at first think she may be an artist and she’s going to paint the sky. As the story unfolds, readers learn she’s a writer, and it’s as if she’s giving the sky a story,…

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So the Day Doesn’t Escape Too Soon, a review of "Train of Thought" by Scott Waters; Reviewed by Peter Mladinic

Book Link So the Day Doesn’t Escape Too Soon, a review of Train of Thought by Scott Waters. Kelsay Books. American Fork, Utah. 2025. $17.00 paper In a documentary film on the great director Yasajiro Ozu, Wim Wenders has some wonderful commentary on trains in Ozu’s films.  Trains in Ozu are symbols of passage, and a similar symbolism is going on in the poems of Scott Waters. As in Ozu, Waters’…

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Interview: Peter Mladinic Author of Knives on a Table

Interview conducted by Nolcha Fox Within the enigmatic corridors of literary intrigue, we stumble upon a character straight out of a gritty urban novel, woven with the threads of existential dread. Peter Mladinic, a product of the New Jersey streets and a survivor of the tumultuous ’70s, embarked on an academic odyssey that culminated in the acquisition of his MFA in Creative Writing in the year…

Interview: Peter Mladinic Author of Knives on a Table

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Peter Mladinic: "I want to convey that good and evil are in the world, joy and sadness, pleasure and pain".

Interview conducted by Nolcha Fox Within the enigmatic corridors of literary intrigue, we stumble upon a character straight out of a gritty urban novel, woven with the threads of existential dread. Peter Mladinic, a product of the New Jersey streets and a survivor of the tumultuous ’70s, embarked on an academic odyssey that culminated in the acquisition of his MFA in Creative Writing in the year…

Peter Mladinic: "I want to convey that good and evil are in the world, joy and sadness, pleasure and pain".

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The Stars Will Remember, a review of "End of Earth" by Nolcha Fox, art by Mike Armstrong. Reviewed by Peter Mladinic

The Stars Will Remember, a review of End of Earth by Nolcha Fox, art by Mike Armstrong. Prolific Pulse Press, Raleigh, NC. 2024. $15.95 paper, $4.99 Kindle. Perhaps in a future ions away, the stars will remember life on earth, the life of planets, animals, and humans, which is precisely what Nolcha Fox is writing about in End of Earth, a document of that life in poetic lines about people,…

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Chain Lightning, a review of My Muse of Restless Nights by Sinead McGuigan by Peter Mladinic

Sensual and spiritual, the poems in Sinead McGuigan’s new collection My Muse of Restless Nights are earthy and cosmic. They court the elements of earth, fire, water, and air.  They are about being alive and being in love, and explore the self in relation to others.  Charged with passion, they explore the heights and depths of the realm of the lover and the beloved.  Three devices the poet employs…

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Baseball in Lea and Washington Senators

By Peter Mladinic Baseball in Lea Some have not heard of a bunt. The slide is something on a guitar, the double play a cloud of mystery. You won’t find “I heart Ruth” in blue ink on a notebook’s face. Diamond takes a backseat to speedway. Gridiron and goalposts bring out the football in us. Washington Senators Whose autograph would you rather have, Albert Einstein or Taylor Swift? Pedro…

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