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Featured Articles

Community and Renaissance (Editorial)
by W.B. Burkholder

We have, in the palm of our hands, an opportunity of the greatest importance. Let us work together, let us not take away from one another, but build a collaborative network of Poets, Authors and Artists that, together, and united can truly make a change in our communities and neighborhoods.

Book Reviews

Travel a poet’s life in “This is How I Feel”
by Carla Dodd

“This Is How I Feel: My Life In Verse” is a headlong leap into the journal of Dimonique Boyd.

Ber-henda Williams’ Memoirs of the Human Experience
by Carla Dodd

The writer within can turn the ordinary and everyday into a personal glance at the soul.

Interviews

featuredimage Weekly Feature: Christopher J. Dwyer
by Carlton Lloyd Smith and Paquita Roth

Troubadour 21 is very proud to introduce Christopher Dwyer as our T21 in-house writer. He will be writing two stories a month, exclusively for T21. Christopher is a writer from Boston, Massachusetts, and his stories are beautifully written, filled with vivid images that either touch one’s heart or send chills down one’s spine. He has a special gift of being able to write in a variety of styles, either sensitive, touching love stories from a masculine perspective, or eery noir thriller stories of gore and blood that make one want to lock all doors and bolt all windows.

featuredimage Weekly Feature: Lane Robbins
by Carlton Lloyd Smith

This article is part of a weekly feature, highlighting one of our contributors here at Troubadour 21. It is our hope that we may give you a peek inside the lives of the artists who create the art and the poets who create the poetry you see here on the site.

Music and Theater

featuredimage Shantel Bolks (A Drifter At Heart)
by W.B. Burkholder

Shantel Bolks attacks the strings of her Takamine Guitar with all the skill and craft of a master that has been playing for years.

The vocals are just as masterful and her country, folk style is mesmerizing in the way she executes each and every song on this album.

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Poetry

The Loser Stakes
by John Grey

there was always the grinning contest


A Lion’s Roar
by Deonte Osayande

If lions still roar in America


The Way to My Hometown
by Liu Hong-ping

The way to my hometown is far and long


Cape Cod
by Alli Martel

One day I will awaken
to the apocalypse


The Man I’ve Not Yet Met
by Paquita Roth

Looking into the loving eyes


Short Stories

Go Ahead and Dance
by Len Kuntz

Imagine this: a skinny eight year old dancer, who doesn’t know she is one, discovering her gift by breaking the embrace of gloved hands and twirling–spinning and spinning and spinning–atop the wet grave of her just-buried grandfather.


Before the Mattress
by Charlie Daly

The TV has to go, that’s the first step. I unscrew the cable from the wall. Programs haven’t flowed through the cable in a while. I coil the cable and tape it to the back of the TV. My neighbor’s TV is loud enough for both of us. I can hear the channels change through summer-screened windows.


Unwelcome Guests
by Marc Taurisano

The sounds were unmistakable––a sharp, percussive slap followed by a high-pitched shriek.


A Kommando Loose in Maine
by Tom Sheehan

Jaeger Brecht believed he could be anybody, and sound like anybody; he could preach what he practiced.


Old Soul
by Len Kuntz

He woke up smiling and that made her nervous because Randal was not a happy man, not by anyone’s stretch of the imagination.


Essays

The Night I Drove Freeman Home
by Tom Sheehan

We had come out of the Out Loud Open Mike meeting at Melrose’s Beebe Estate into a slick wind and minor patches of ice and snow.


The Dumpmaster’s Boy
by Tom Sheehan

Ears I had, and eyes, and I used them well. Before I walked by the group of men on the corner, bringing my grandfather’s lunch to the city dump where he worked, I knew they’d be talking about me.


Decision Borne by April Water
by Tom Sheehan

I was fishing off the bridge over the Ipswich River, a few hundred yards from the Topsfield Fairgrounds.


Uncertainty Speaks Volumes in the Sound of “Clock”
by Mansor Pooyan

In the vast clock-like machine that is our world


A terror state of siege
by Mansor Pooyan

“Terror” is a varied collection of themes with echoes across its different parts, all equally vital to the whole.


Photography

The Road To Somewhere
by Olga Kazantseva

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Lord Henry Hits Rock Bottom
by Julie M Tate

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Heart of Stone
by R Jay Slais

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Artwork

Unterer Rheinweg, Basel
by Dawn Juliet Flower

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Johanntorbrueke, Basel
by Dawn Juliet Flower

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Manifesto of a True American Artist and Poet
by Michael Indorato

All the channels on TV; from the comfort of a sofa we watch, entertained by the evils of our society


Series


by Paquita Roth
The Adventures of a Thoroughly Confused Gigi – Part XXXII


by Tom Sheehan
The Tale of Trot and Dim Johnny – Part I


by CL Bledsoe
River City Blues – Part II


by Tom Fillion
The Dream Mechanic – Part XXXI


by Dan Leo
Railroad Train to Heaven – Part XXXIX


by Tom Sheehan
Carpenter Ants in the Squirrel House – Part XXXX