by JL Jacobs | Jul 24, 2024 | Art, Fiction, Fiction and Art, Painting, Poetry
My Neighborhood by Hyewon Cho Borders Just as our pigment was a barrier, so was my father’s education, and we lived in the shadow between two trees. For many years, we were the only dark faces in the neighborhood, embraced by some, shunned by...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 2, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Untitled 3 6.34” x 6.34” mixed media on found wood Makes You Happy When I was coming up my mama and daddygot their groove every Saturday night listening to some Earth Wind and Fire and Al Green.Have you ever seen old people listen to Al Green?It’s...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 25, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Summer by Cynthia Yatchman Depression Isn’t Something That Should Be Kept Secret (But It Often Is) What I gave to the grassand space was neversundown shadowscurving and highupon the canopy No but I loitered there enjoyingthis grass quietly...
by JL Jacobs | May 25, 2022 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
IDENTITY The entire past up for grabs! Who are we but our memories of the past? Yet the “experts” tell us that what we think We remember about our pasts is fantastical, Mostly untrue, mostly false, mostly invented As we grope along...
by JL Jacobs | Dec 4, 2019 | Art Feature, Painting
Fear of Missing Out Fear of Missing Out (Art Feature) by Darren Tynan...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 3, 2019 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Art: Recurring Schemes by Daniel Smith WHAT THE TREES SAW Over two thousand miles, twenty cartons of cigarettes and an ocean of liquor lie between me and that place, yet I still can’t escape the Black Hills National Forest. Time has been fluid since that day in the...
