Bobbie Panek is a Auburn, NY based poet whose works elicits the range of emotions that people go through.  More of her work is coming in the summer/fall 2013 issue...soon. "The Heart of the City" by Bobbie Panek Had a great time returned at 1 a.m. went on the harbor cruise on the Hudson and East River and on the uptown and downtown Manhattan tour buses our heads swimming with sounds colors textures smells shapes frenzy pastoral peace in Central Park Dakota Building where John Lennon died Leonardo Decaprio's Hudson River high rise Harlem 's Apollo Theater Wall Street’s narrow minds horses saris Soho and Hoboken homeless with signs bridal parties and pigeons Ginka Biloba gifts from Chinese churches with spires buildings so high you can't see the tops even when you stretch your neck back streets and people yellow taxis and people street vendors and people so much history an...

Anxiety/Summer Storm White caps of madness, as memory stirs the shadows of the deep water: the black wounded depths, roll, running from consciousness, into huge untreadable waves. And you are swallowed into the unbreathable strangle of the past, suffocating in memories so painful when they surface. Anxiety tries to dog paddle in the storm. Sinks, as your lungs fill with huge gulps of desperation— howls from the past— force breaths of fear, and crawls with indecision. You are stillborn on the waves, locked in the nakedness of your own fragility. Cold and shivering, alone, in the lightening, the thunder. MORE TO COME FROM MS. WOOLVEN IN THE SUMMER/FALL 2013 ISSUE. GET READY.

We had to take an unexpected hiatus of sorts but are back and ready to continue presenting poets from the summer 2013 issue.  Interestingly that issue is morphing into a summer/fall issue with a full fall issue still in the works.  In this way, YOU  get more poets and writers in a shorter span of time. The next poet will be presented later this evening, Thursday, September 19th and then full steam ahead resuming our presentation of summer/fall issue poets on a regular basis...'cause we are back! Oh, we will have some interesting news for YOU in the summer/fall 2013 issue and will keep you informed as to the launch date for that issue.  Thank you for your continued support and interest in what aaduna is up to.   

    THE UNFAIRNESS OF LOVE     They tangled. Lovers legs and brown eyes still in the very early morning. When everything they had lied about to get to this point, hanged, in the warm summer heat. The fan that had been rotating all night to cool their skin, wasn’t enough. Every sweaty lie that had been told between their skins came and rattled them from their sleep. One by one, waking them from their dreams. His long dreads swung with his moods. Her full hips absorbed his indecisiveness. Their friendship made trivial by the tears he kept walled up behind his eyes, and the few that blessed her cheeks, barely moist.     READ THE READ THE REST OF THIS POEM AND ANOTHER WORK BY AYANA IN THE SUMMER 2013 ISSUE...COMING SOON.  

As we prepare the summer issue for a late launch, you need to get ready.   Here is a sampler from work by Alok Bhardwaj. 1. I tried to save Prostitutes Drunks Bored Couples Fallen Women Satan Worshippers Abandoned Children Homeless Derelicts Abused Men Abused Women And so many others Without very much luck I got tipsy with the drunks I failed to charm prostitutes with love poetry Out of politeness I invoked demonic spirits Talking up life’s adventure I drove spouses from boredom to adultery   Check out the rest of this poem and other works by Alok.   Coming soon.

Are you ready to let words drift over your consciousness and wrap your emotions in a road trip that may never end? Are you woman or man enough to enter a world that knows no boundaries or limits or constraints?   Do you dare? Are you ready for the wonder of magic of what you think you know while your thinking and perceptions are morphed…maybe challenged by someone you don’t know?     It starts tomorrow.   Are you ready to be teased?

A WITNESS TO HISTORY...  Harriet Tubman legacy...   As part of the 100th anniversary commemoration of Harriet Tubman's passing, a stretch of highway (Route 34) has been named in honor of her.  The City of Auburn marked this occassion with brief speeches at Memorial City Hall and then a "legacy" walk from City Hall to the Tubman Home, on South Street, a walk of 2.38 miles round trip.  At the Tubman homesite, the official sign was unvieled at the end of a brief caremony marked by greetings from federal, state, and local elected officials, as well as remarks from Tubman officials.  Karen Hill, CEO & President, Harriet Tubman Home, Inc. speaks at the Harriet Tubman Memorial Highway dedication ceremony on Friday, August 2, 2013.   . Next day, Saturday August 3, 2013, the City of Auburn celebrated Founder's Day with official remarks from local and state-wide politicians, a speech fr...