Is mercury retrograde right now?

Mercury turns Retrograde on April 28th, at 1:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, at 23:36 Taurus (23 degrees, 36 minutes of Taurus)

It will turn Direct on May 22, at 9:20 AM, EDT, at 14:20 Taurus.

My source Jim Maynard's "Astrologer's Datebook 2016"

But for YOU, bookmark this site. It is an "ephemeris", which is a table that lists the location of EVERY planet (at midnight Greenwich Mean TIme), for every day of every month, for whatever year you are looking at.

You can track the movement of all the astrological planets with this website:

http://www.astro.com/swisseph/swepha_e.htm

Note that the ephemeris list the date for Retrograde and Direct stations as being one day later. That is because it IS the next day ... in Greenwich ... when Mercury changes direction.

The next mercury retrograde phase is April 28 - May 22

No; it turns retrograde on May1st.