Welcome to Lightwood’s Winter Issue #4 featuring new articles, poetry, fiction, reviews, art and more. It’s our hope that our online voice, Lightwood magazine and Lightwoodpress, will connect with many of you across the world. We began this journey in February 2020 as the covid pandemic was seriously expanding throughout the world. And along with our Facebook page, and our Instagram and Twitter sites, we will continue to bring you a wide range of writing and artwork as we explore Lightwood’s subtitle: “life and the arts in the 21st century.” Over the past few months, we’ve had thousands of visitors and views, and we hope this will continue to grow.
We welcome any contribution from you through Paypal. But if this isn’t something you can do right now, please consider giving generously to any local food bank in your area. We believe that food insecurity is yet another pandemic that we humans face. And one that that we, as individuals, no matter our politics, ethnicity, or points of view, can solve together. Thanks for being part of Lightwood and enjoy the works that your fellow writers and artists have contributed for you.
Laurence Carr, Lightwood Publisher
“See how good and pleasing it is to dwell together in unity. It is like a precious ointment upon the head, and as the dew descended upon the mountains.”— from a spiritual text
Table of Contents:
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Welcome to Lightwood 4
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The Greatest Broadway Musicals/ feature article by Frank Shanbaker with Bruce Klinger, Gary Mathius, Drew Tabone, Kevin P. McAnarney and L. Carr
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Good earth is Black earth/ fiction (excerpt) by Kate Hymes
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Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years 1963-1967/ a music review by Mike Jurkovic
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No Nonsense/ a food essay by Penny Freel
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LW Profile: Gregory Abels and Where to Begin
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Grandson/ Death of an Optimist/music review by Amber Mason
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Yellow and Promise/ two short fictions by Jessica Corrado
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Proverbs of Hell; photography by James Abbott/text by William Blake
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Gall/ poem by Margo Taft Stever
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Elton John/ Elton: Jewel Box/ music review by Mike Jurkovic
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Poetry/ a poem by Ken Holland
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On the Death of Miles Davis/ poetry by Thomas Festa
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Focus on: The Human Arts Collective (T.H.A.C.)
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This Poem Needs You and Each Morning/ poetry by Joann Deiudicibus
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Who Will Speak?/ micro-fiction by Jess Nadelman
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Elvis Costello: Hey Clockface/music review by Mike Jurkovic
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Social Distancing/ a memoir essay by Christina Turczyn
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Consequently/poem by Marc Harshman
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U2/All That You Can’t Leave Behind, Box Set/music review by Mike Jurkovic