by JL Jacobs | Jan 11, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Elina Ghanbari THE CLEANING LADY like a phantom Mr. Clean she came over once every two weeks, polished the old creaking parquet, swept the dust off the foreign fiction, scrubbed the sink, changed the sheets, placed chocolates on my pillow and along with an...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 9, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Conversations about the Dance by Gerburg Garmann ODE TO CR AND TS: A SURREALIST ELEGY About the author: Abraheem Dittu is a Pakistani-American poet from Los Angeles. He’s previously been published in The Blue Door Quarterly, Cultural Weekly, Flypaper...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 2, 2019 | Photography, Poetry
Art: Photography by Marie Dashkova Hummingbirds I remember reading recently of how hummingbirds only suckle from lilac and lavender blooms for their fuel, their nectarous urge merely the gruel a weary, calloused farmhand might sock away, mopping a soaked and furrowed...
by JL Jacobs | Dec 19, 2018 | Poetry and Article
Art: Fire and Flames Nathan Ramer, @artwithnathan REAL REALISM: AN ART MANIFESTO FOR THE DISENCHANTED About the author: Mark Blickley and is a widely published and produced writer and proud member of PEN American Center and the Dramatists Guild. He is a 2018 Audie...
by JL Jacobs | Dec 17, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Crazon 1984 by Alex Duensing TURTLES, BIRDS, AND OTHERS (OBSERVATIONAL HAIKU) Turtles 9/10/16 a big turtle crawls on the base of the river, a school of small fish 9/23/16 the big turtle sits on a rock in the river as the water flows...
by JL Jacobs | Dec 7, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Snowball from the Daily Magnificence Series by Çağrı Yılmaz MOURNING DOVE About the author: Heikki Huotari is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower....