Oscar Bermeo

“About B-Boys in the Boogie Down”

“In the City, you can’t help but think of God”

Nancy Haiduck

“Looking Up at the Throgs Neck Bridge”

Kenneth McManus

“The Women of Arroyo”

Alice S. Myerson

“Orchard Beach Soundscape”

Jamie A. Ross

“Defiance”

Amy Soricelli

“Calvary”

Henry Torres

“Hope Turning Inside-Out”

Gia Rae Winsryg-Ulmer

“New World Symphony”

Prose

Luisa Beltran

“Aguantar”

Mary Ellen Sanger

“Concha”

Bruce Tallerman

“Gold”

Kentaro Yoshida

“Double Vision”

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Alitha Martinez

“Yume and Ever” original comic book series cover

“All of the great Heroes are dead!”

“Nefarious evil-doers hatch a diabolical scheme to rule the world. Super heroes unite to halt their odious plans.”

Eileen McNamee

“Painting the Bronx”

j.c. rice

“Car Wash Chains”

“Untitled #1″

Toni Roberts

“Breath of Love”

Christy Speakman

“Eye-wall 1″

“Eye-wall 2″

“Eye-wall 3″

Audio

Oscar Bermeo reads “About B-Boys in the Boogie Down” and “In the City, you can’t help but think of God.”

 
Kentaro Yoshida reads an excerpt from his short story “Double Vision.”

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Click each artist’s name for an artist bio and statement.

Alitha Martinez

“Yume and Ever” original comic book series cover

“All of the great Heroes are dead!”

“Nefarious evil-doers hatch a diabolical scheme to rule the world. Super heroes unite to halt their odious plans.”

Eileen McNamee

“Painting the Bronx”

j.c. rice

“Car Wash Chains”

“Untitled #1″

Toni Roberts

“Breath of Love”

Christy Speakman

“Eye-wall 1″

“Eye-wall 2″

“Eye-wall 3″

Audio

Oscar Bermeo reads “About B-Boys in the Boogie Down” and “In the City, you can’t help but think of God.”

 
Kentaro Yoshida reads an excerpt from his short story “Double Vision.”

The wind made a whistle
from a ripple of the tide
surfing high upon a splinter
at the Orchard Beach side.

The geese felt the ripple
on the nipples of the sea
and they lifted up their nose rings,
flying flutes in synchrony.

Flapping kites with whisper wings
tumbled down on silver strings
and the children rolled in sand
laughing at a horseshoe hand.

The wind strolled out
through the sun drenched crowd
undulating hip sticks
on a pillar of a cloud.

Salsa drums,
mango rum,
disco soul,
rock and roll,
windy flappers,
belly rappers,
old men calling,
basket balling,
hand ball paddles,
rhythmic battles,
bird tapes
and a city skate

board on the arc
of a loose sidewalk,
where the Bronx
reached the sea
and the gulls hung free,

where the Bronx
reached the sea
and the gulls hung free.

And the wind played tag
with a baggie and a raggie,
throwing sand seeds to the children,
chasing sun balls on the ocean.

But the wind
began to holler
when three nuns
turned round the collar
of the shoulder
of a boulder
that rested on the sea.

They pedaled so fast
past meadows of sea glass
that the wheels of their bikes
splattered mud against the spikes

of a giant sea horse
that sunbathed on the porch
of a long sandy spit
where the gully sharks did sit.

The children turned it over
like an old man’s lover
while the wind crept under
the nun’s great wonder.

Black habits billowed freely
on the shadows of the seaweed
while the children ran gawing
at the nun’s black stockings,

and their laughter
filled the rafters
of the clouds
with glee,

and their laughter
filled the rafters
of the clouds
with glee.

 
 
Alice S. Myerson, a long-time resident of the Bronx, is a nurse practitioner, an HIV specialist, a teacher and a human rights worker. She writes: “I raised my daughter, Alethea Pace, on these hard streets. I dug my roots in the fertile soil that nourishes our cement sidewalks and take pride in the hardy plants that flourish here. My daughter is the source of my inspiration as an artist. From her I have learned to be fearless, to try new things, and to constantly seek new edges in my life.” This is Alice’s first publication; she began writing 5 years ago at the onset of the war in Iraq.