by JL Jacobs | Jun 5, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: Robert Joyner THE ASCENSION He woke on his last day with the palpable feeling of being an astronaut at lift-off. Under an esplanade of leaves all moving at once through the nearly invisible hospital sheers he recognized the slow brilliance, a warmth...
by JL Jacobs | May 31, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: Çağrı Yılmaz POETRY READING: THE WORK OF YUN WANG AM: Let us hear a little bit about what your inspirations are and how you end up with a poem. YW: My greatest inspiration has always been nature. A good fraction of my poems came to me while I was...
by JL Jacobs | May 29, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: “Bois de Vincennes” by Baptiste Charruyer THE BRIDGES TO APRIL 1 We’ve all got coughs, January rattles that won’t quit. Our necks wrapped in warm scarves against the cold night, we trail one by one into the ill-lit bar. Some...
by JL Jacobs | May 15, 2017 | Poetry, Rivera
Art Credit: “Chicago Dreams” by photographer Chris Rivera YOU’LL LIKE TACOMA: A SEQUENCE OF FIVE POEMS 1. No clarity here Or if there is, it only emerges from the ocean— Land/sky/sea Sun gone to pale blue in the...
by JL Jacobs | May 2, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: Marie Dashkova, Photographer INCANTATION The bones are mine and the cookie cutters are mine and ripe smell of the compost is mine, and the dress curling at my ankles is mine. The tattoo of the shark, and the elephant static and electric whistles of...
by JL Jacobs | May 2, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: “Confusione” by Vivian Nimue Wood Valle d’ Aosta SONG FOR LARD I sing for pig fat, for leaf lard, fatback, caul fat, for the small white icebergs my grandmother dropped into a black iron skillet she never washed, only swiped with newsprint and put on the...
