by JL Jacobs | Jun 16, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Linda Chapman A HUNDRED YEARS IN THE BASEMENT The lights don’t reach the far corners of this basement. And a puddle has formed near the back stairs. Through the window well you hear rain dripping off the roof. Me. I’m knee-deep in the litter and...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 15, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Izik Levy INJI TEA Washing tea bowls random drops brighten a worn floor About the author: Gary Galsworth is from the New York City area. After the Marine Corps, he studied visual arts in Chicago and New York City. He became a professional plumber...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 14, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Joost Waal OLSON’S At last our lunch at the Swedish deli, all formica and marble and the clatter of dishes, pickles, mustard, fresh-baked rye and your eyes that I once thought looked past time but now at 12 o’clock, flit, and I am like you, we talk about...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 13, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: Louis Trew, Collage, Bristol, UK @louistrew on IG REVOLUTION We learn revolution as a one-time trauma, with drum, with anthem, shouts and shocks and falling guillotine, yet, too, the clock revolves. The year revolves. The natural order revolves, the power...
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...
