The Binnacle - Spring 2011

by Gerard NeCastro (Editor), Garrett Greenlaw (Editor)

The Binnacle, The Literary Journal of Coastal Maine, was founded in 1957 as a part of the University of Maine at Machias yearbook and began to publish individual volumes in 1969. Today it publishes a Spring and Fall edition as well as an annual Ultra-Short edition. Please visit us at

The Binnacle is proud to present these works and authors for its Spring 2011 edition.

Salud
Claude Bachand

At Elmer’s Pond
(A Haibun)
Ray Beal

Reinventing the Neighbors
James M. Bellarosa

Extreme Extravert Recklessly Decides to Forgive Everyone Everything
Chrissy Benson

The Tenth Circle of Miami
John F. Buckley and Martin Ott

The Hole in the Front Porch
Nancy A. Caldwell

Whispering the Colors
Tobi Cogswell

Thirty Years
Hugh Fox

Even in Paved Dallas
John Glass

Checked Out
Alexandra Glorioso

At the Entrance to the Underworld
Jonathan Greenhause

Mugloo
Norm Hendricks

Dirty Hands
Jules Jacob

Nowhere, Maine
Cynthia Larsen

Redeeming (Water Street, Ellsworth)
The Gift
Carl Little

This Evening
Lennart Lundh

Joseph’s Story
Chuck Lyons

A World of Light and Shadow
A. D. Martinez

To the Girl Who Makes the Coffee
Nicholas Montefusco

From Behind Glass
Samantha Priestley

You Are Not Dead
Further Dreams
Bunny Richards

A Perfect Crime
Mark Reutlinger

Confusion
Ian C Smith

Our online ISSN is 2160-6331. Our print ISSN is 2160-634X.

95 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 22, 2011

About the author

Born and raised in Erie, Pennsylvania, Gerard NeCastro, after graduating from Mercyhurst college, was an accountant and bookstore manager in Cranberry, Pennsylvania, and Redlands, California. While working as a bookseller by day, he returned to school at night, studying languages part-time and eventually joined the master’s program in English at the University of California – Riverside, where he began his long involvement with Chaucer, Dante, and Medieval and Renaissance Drama. When he completed his MA, he continued his studies in Medieval Literature at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. While he was there, he taught in the legendary Integrated Liberal Studies program where he developed his love of Art History.

Upon completion of his Ph.D., he taught for two years at the University of Maine – Orono, and then for many years both on the graduate faculty at Orono and the regular faculty at Machias, where, after teaching hundreds of classes and editing dozens of publications, he was named as Emeritus Professor of English and Humanities. After his retirement there, he began his second career at WLU in July 2017. He and Vicki, his wife of 30+ years, live in the quiet town of Bethany. When he is not serving as dean or teaching his classes, he spends his time reading, editing, gardening, and writing fiction and poetry. He is now revising his novels Columbine AS3 and The In-Law.