by JL Jacobs | Apr 15, 2022 | Art, Short Fiction
Art: Life Strains by John Hansen The Man Inside At Christmas, Nick dresses as Santa. He likes pretending to grant wishes. They give him somesemblance of decency. He looks dignified, not like the thirty-year old drunk, son of a runawayfather, a mother who buried...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 6, 2022 | Art, Fiction
Art: Abstract Feelings by KJ Williams This piece of flash fiction is part of a collection of short stories and poems in which the narrator is the principal caretaker of her younger sister while struggling with her own mental health issues. The...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 16, 2022 | Art, Poetry
Untitled by John Gregory Brown After the Troubadour We play like children scribbling chalk;vibrant pastel glyphs vanish in afternoonrain. I was unopened, a letterfull of news waiting formy seal to be slit, a bedtime story pressedlike the scent of...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 9, 2022 | Art, Article
“Sorbes de la nuit d’été,” ca. 1975, Pastel and typewriter ink on paper, 13 ¾” x 9⅛” Joan Mitchell Retrospective SFMOMA by Linda Saccoccio What stands out for you regarding Joan Mitchell? Besides being a colorist, her bold brilliance is seen in the...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 3, 2022 | Art, Poetry
Art: Foundwork by Zachary McRae The Last Born in Volatility I cut my knuckledisassembling his criband sadness rushed meand all my indecisions,this being the lastof the baby stuffstacking up in the garage. Days later, wife’s questionstill unanswered, I...
