by JL Jacobs | Oct 9, 2024 | Art, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Finding Freedom by Andrea Damic Flowerbeds After Jóhann Jóhannsson’s ‘End of Summer’ The camera makes a mirrored bandjust above the peaks, gives the world a roof; last summer all seemed unbowed,the park contained secret immensities, we...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 2, 2024 | Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Monterosso by Charles Bryne Cape Alava Your feet sink progressively deeper into the sandAs the sun climbs and the weight of your backpackSlows your stride to a plodding shuffle. It was firm and wet when you set out, as the tideReceded from the...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 28, 2024 | Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Photography by Nikolas Karathanasis SWINDLED & BEWILDERED Lincoln Way Storage, Unit #286, June 2018) Gone: The mantel clock stepfather carved for each of my siblings. A hippo collection hand-paintedby my nephew in stripes and polka dots inspired by...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 9, 2024 | Art, Art Feature, Photography, Sculpture
Untitled sculpture by Amalia Galdona Broche Memory Altars The sculptures materialize a psychological landscape of otherness and memory crisis. As a child of the Cuban Revolution during the Special Period, a time of extreme economic adversity, I...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 28, 2024 | Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
From series “Transitory Space” Color field, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2015 by Leah Oates As Wildflowers I think I’ve found a cure for all the shamewe were taught to feel within our bodies:instead of flesh and bone, imagine this—a...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 19, 2024 | Fiction, Photography, Photography, Lifestyle and Fiction, Prose, Short Fiction
Bleak by Jiayi Ji A Sudden Passion It was the memorial for his father, a tedious, even boringly arranged affair which, in its paint-by- numbers planning and total lack of the unforeseen—so anticipated and prepared for had been the death itself—was...