by JL Jacobs | Apr 25, 2018 | Poetry
Art: William Zuback, @williamzubackphotographs STILL LIFE—BLUE BOTTLES AND TANGERINE The bottles are quiet, not like buzzing flies we swat without stopping to see the iridescent sheen of their wings. A tangerine’s skin has pores unlike the smoothness of glass....
by JL Jacobs | Apr 23, 2018 | Poetry
Art: War by Karen Nielsen, @karennielsen13 MY COUNTRY TIS You are the diners of the ’20s, pre-fab, fit into railroad cars or trucks, parked on any street of you, America. You are the glass carousels of cakes, the Napoleons leaking custard, the Boston creams of...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 20, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Fabrice Poussin A CRISIS OF FAITH A woman shall be silent in church. She shall be submissive to her husband. Her skirt shall be no more than two inches above the knee. We girls stood in neat rows and held sour lemon drops of shame on our tongues. At day’s...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 18, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Fish in Open Currents by Tobias Oggenfuss SPRING Spring is a tomboy all done up, an amazon and a unicorn intertwined, the reward after winter’s test, a fragile beauty in the end. About the author: Karol Nielsen is author of the memoir, Black Elephants (Bison...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 16, 2018 | Art, Photography
Art: Photo by Gianluigi Di Napoli, @gianluigidinapoli MIA PHOTO FAIR 2018 In its 8th edition, MIA Photo Fair 2018 is on at The Mall, in Milan. MIA is a now a traditional meeting for collectors, authors, galleries and enthusiasts and a vantage point to identify trends...
