by JL Jacobs | Jun 9, 2021 | Art, Poetry
Art: Harmonia by Márcia Tannure Adoption, Day 88 6am is darker and darker red every morning. To look at the sky, the host-animal around us is returning to life. I swing your legs parallel, settle you across my lap, blanket us both. You lean back into my arms, all...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 2, 2021 | Art, Fiction
Art: Jane Desonier Eurydice Emerges into the Light so for your arrogance and your ruthlessness I am swept back—H.D., “Eurydice” I can relate to the poet H.D.’s interpretation of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. I have (more than once) fallen in love with...
by JL Jacobs | May 20, 2021 | Art, Article
Art: Monstragity by Robert Ferrier Tundra Swans Twice You don’t hear scientists beating up on the poets, as a rule, but the poets are always complaining about science. Poe called science a “Vulture, whose wings are dull realities.” Dickinson’s “Split...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 29, 2021 | Art, Poetry
Art: Bold and Free by Britnie Walston Juggling Poetry At first you’re just playing catch back and forth easy, you don’t even need special gloves soon, though, ...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 14, 2021 | Art, Poetry
Art: Sasan Golbostani The Daoist Lu Dongbin Crossing Lake Dongting Painted Fan, Yuan Dynasty China He was going to cross the water. He was crossing on foot, he was forever going to. I was forever...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 7, 2021 | Art, Article
Art: Abstract in Blue, Yellow, Green by John Timothy Robinson This article is an excerpt from Nyla Ali Khan’s new book: Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones: Transforming, Not Transmitting Trauma. Palgrave Macmillan,...
