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Specks of Gold
A mile of speckled business establishments, not as profitable as they could be, guarded by a community of neighborhoods, some of which often make headline news, colored with culture and flashes of faces in passing from surrounding counties and the capital.
Into the Woods: The Homeless
Their day begins just as ours. They awake by sunrise, clean their home, run their errands; some head to work and others head to the traffic medians, only a few yards away, to hold up signs for income. Nestled in the roundabout woods that divide downtown Frederick from Route 85, a matted trail of grass…
Who is Chris Cubs?
Chris Cubs, The Trinidadian-American, artist-meets-businessman, side walk poet. We ask if he lives a normal life outside of traveling with a typewriter from city to city. His response: “Oh no, no. I get paid to do poetry.” The first poem he ever wrote was Do You Like Poetry? He started writing in 8th grade but donned the alias two…