by JL Jacobs | Mar 9, 2018 | Art, Poetry
Art: Karen Hill, @karenhill_images TENURE About the Author: Heikki Huotari is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. His poems appear in numerous journals,...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 7, 2018 | Art, Memoir
Art: Muted Tears by Susan McCollum, @susan_mccollum_art WOMEN AS HARBINGERS OF PEACE AND CONSTRUCTION IN KASHMIR Twenty-eight years of armed insurgency and counter insurgency in Kashmir; the devastation rendered by militaristic discourse; the consequent sequestration...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 5, 2018 | Art, Film, Poetry
Art: Photography by Sasan Golbostani, @sasan_golbostani THE CHAPEL AT LA CONQUISTADORA Santa Fe, NM: Terrifying crucifixion statue: skinny Jesus, bloody, sliced up, flesh hanging from the open wounds, head tilted slightly to the right, mouth hanging open, eyes glassy....
by JL Jacobs | Mar 2, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Photography by Alison Prine KINSHIP WITH INSTINCTS Finding citing vivid insights tiring I’m idling, childish, in hiding, minding swirling birds girding virgin birch, flirting in whirlwind skirmishings, chirping birthrights within this singing, fix’d in strict...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 28, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Pedrera Steps II by Linda Chapman AN UNEXAMINED LIFE “An unexamined life is not worth living.” –Socrates Who’d seek to deduce truly unique views? You’d need to refuse routines, to renew youthful curiosity’s urgency to fully see...