by JL Jacobs | Sep 18, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Challenging the Medium by Marguerite Ogden Self-Portrait If I Were Stumbling & if I climb behind you—way back, behindthe chair, between the sky & the bluegreen fabric me back there, where I am apple ...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 12, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Frontier by Nicholas Kriefall Mostly False Statements from My Imaginary Biography A voracious reader, by ten he had devoured the great works of Hugo, Zola, and Flaubert in French, so he turned to the Russians. At eleven he despaired of literature...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 5, 2024 | Art, Photography, Art and Lifestyle, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Container of dreams by Natalie Christensen Goody-Two-Shoes Aren’t we setting the bar for virtuea tad low here? I’m glad that was never your style—chatting about Boston, cow-tippings in Austin,how you need your café au lait before you write a...
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 | Aug 1, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Autom by Ryan Seo House of Cats What you know is not enough. Kitten steps on a wedding dress, youwill see blue glass. thisredemption stole to swallowtwo lives down thisfallow path, acat-eye spiral gone strange.Take south, then senda story wise...
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...