by JL Jacobs | Jul 26, 2019 | Art, Poetry and Article
Art: Leah Knecht Break the Painting The Subversive Riddles of Leah Knecht Leah Knecht is one of those rare creators who combine immense technical skills with a strong vision, therefore making objects both meaningful and exquisitely wrought. A graduate from Art Center...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 24, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Side Door by Caitlin Carter Ask About Our Daily Specials! At the Molotov Cocktail, we serve Irish Car Bombs all day, and our napkins are rags soaked in kerosene. Disasters unspool on our high-definition televisions in surround sound – floods, riots, mass...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 22, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Commonality by John Hansen Four Palindromes, or There and Back Around the World I Errata: Barnabooth saw spill in drowsy Ar time. Make noise, Sion. Ekam, emit rays. Word nil, lips. Wash to Oban, Rabat, Arre… Ar, the capital city of ancient Moab, a biblical...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 19, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Torment by Robert Ferrier Chore She couldn’t say who closed off from whom, or when the tangle of bright forsythia at the side of the house thickened to impassable. There is a cry in the cold engine. And a cry in the hairdryer behind the bathroom door. A cry in...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 17, 2019 | Poetry
Art: The day after 13 Nov. 2015, Paris 11ème by Boré Ivanoff An Un-useful Witness Through the car window I saw them load a man onto a gurney after they carried him out of the encampment. I had not seen the incident, or observed the precipitating factors. I was on my...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 15, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Alison Prine Summer Again when we turn away and busy ourselves we forget the sky when the sky is forgotten, it stretches past the edge when the edge recedes clouds tint to red when clouds tint I feel a nearness, as if we have spoken when we have spoken it seems a...
