by JL Jacobs | May 11, 2022 | Art, Memoir
DEAR MR. WHITMAN Dear Mr. Whitman, I write to you now as a late disciple of yours because your words I read only just recently and they have inspired me to write regardless of timing and place. I write to you too because it is my belief that what you have said while...
by JL Jacobs | May 2, 2022 | Art, Folk music
“Excavations expanded no 02” by Detlef Gotzens Limbo by Marysa Eve Limbo is a recent release by folk singer-songwriter Marysa Eve. The name says it all; it is a sort of lullaby for the perpetually restless. She wrote it while living in...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 27, 2022 | Art, Poetry
Algae on Turning Water by Leni Paquet-Morante STRAIGHT-UP Broken and can’t be fixed—like chronically late:— Stuck in-a-traffic jam …you may say.Or:— Just one more before we leave,— A roadie, as they say.And since one’s never enough,when is enough...
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...
