by JL Jacobs | Jul 18, 2018 | Poetry
Art: My Edinburgh IX from Plastic People Series by Seigar, @jseigar BLOODLESS About the author: Jessu John is a writer currently based in Bangalore, India. She’s working to complete a first collection of poems. Her poetry has featured in The Stinging Fly, Magma...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 16, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Teal Sea Hawk from Sea Hawk Series by Mick Ó Seasnáin IF ONLY THE SWAN (Lugano) Dusk comes early to a lake encircled by five mountains. A solitary swan stands at the end of the pier that seems to lead nowhere as the fog rolls in and cuts off its...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 13, 2018 | Poetry
Art: My Nuclear Paris by Adam De Ville 41 SHADES OF BLUE* When you peered through sun-stained dust through a window across an alley through another’s glass into someone-else’s smallness when you stared into —— what when you turned towards —— climbed to where –...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 12, 2018 | Memoir
Art: Cyril Larvor, @cyrillarvor MEMOIR: FROM THE LIFE OF A KASHMIRI WOMAN BY NYLA ALI KHAN “Faith Consists in Believing When It Is Beyond the Power of Reason to Believe”—Voltaire I would venture to say that subscribing to religious traditions and maintaining an...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 11, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Robert Ferrier KICK IT OLD SCHOOL ‘87 an island summer of sexually ripe worship. The days began at my old school, with waves of full-length prostrations in the room provided to me as student guide to a poetry conference. June, post semester. In a ‘50s-era dorm,...
