Book Review: Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In ‘Dream Count’, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes about women and their bodies, love, mother-daughter relationships, happiness, power dynamics, and hip dips, above all things.
In Favor of the Messenger: Reviewing John Yamrus
Poet, memoirist, and individual, John Yamrus, has been celebrated, hate-mailed, and at the receiving end of every reader response in-between. With his existing body of work and latest book entitled ‘Don’t Shoot the Messenger, Just Give Him a Good Place to Hide’, Yamrus synthesizes what he knows personally about life and literature.
BERRY TEA & BROKEN HEARTS
“I have a plane to catch tonight & / I don’t know what to do with the heart falling out of my stomach”
by Devon Webb
Coming of Age, Minus the Teen Angst by Rola Elnaggar
The quarter-life crisis was all the rage back in college. “25” was the age to fear – the age when the frontal lobe fully develops. If you don’t have a job, and if you’re not married and a parent by then, there is clearly something wrong with you—at least, this is what the old customs…
Lights and Layers: an Interview with Writer and Clinician Helena Olufsen
Medicine and literature interweave in the poetry and prose of Helena Olufsen, who is speaking to the now while looking back.
Thumbs Up: The Enduring Appeal of the Romans
Twenty four years ago Russell Crowe ‘unleashed hell’ and rippled his fingers through a field of wheat. Now the world is talking about Paul Mescal in a leather skirt. Swords and sandals, togas and temples and gladiators galore. Just what is it that makes the Romans so endlessly fascinating?
To Take on Tomorrow: Poems for the New Year
In the whirlwind of another trip around the Sun, solace can be found in the purposeful meditations of poets on those first two months of the year.
Our Life’s Mosaic
“The mark left behind by a failed friendship continues to live with us for years to come and we are, whether to our benefit or our downfall, reminded of them every day.”
by Ella Nelson
Book Review: Sad Grownups by Amy Stuber
Sad Grownups is a short story collection by Amy Stuber released on October 8 from Stillhouse Press.
how did it end by Eishal Faisal
“Write, I said to myself, write and engrave your feelings, instead of keeping them in.”
Book Review: Romain Felli’s ‘The Great Adaptation’
Book review by Terry Trowbridge
Van Gogh: Poets, Lovers and Paintings
In his groundbreaking 1972 TV series, Ways of Seeing, novelist and critic John Berger put this painting on the screen, describing it as ‘a landscape of a cornfield with birds flying out of it.’ What are you thinking? Hot sun and August days. Memories of country walks. The smell of warm grasses. Maybe you’re distracted…
Of Grief and Space: A Journey Through Dean Francis Alfar’s ‘Packing for the Moon’
“I’d take only what was really important. Let’s make a list, Dad.” – Sam, Packing for the Moon
by A. L. Sarino
The General Aporia
otherwise titled: “Another Exorcism”
or: “On some questions better left un-asked”
or even: “Bridge Burning”
Unbox by Noll Griffin
Siblings wrestle with their departed grandmother’s pile of greeting cards that defy all nostalgia.
Elephant by Rachel Orta
“This piece begins as non-fiction, a story of an experience I had after the explosive attacks on Gaza began in October. I swim to detach, to recenter, but in this instance I could not detach from another’s reality as they face a genocide.”
Midsummer Night’s Dream but Without the Forests by Mileva Anastasiadou
Inspired by the wildfires that have destroyed the 37% of the forests in Attica over the past 8 years, this is Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream but without the forests.
Finding A Muse Should Be Easy by Aurore Phipps
A pretentious existentialist Black writer turned romance writer looks for a platonic male muse on a dating app.
A Nicer Place by Michael Propsom
An adult entertainer finds freedom through a 60’s pop song
The Return by Chris Blexrud
A man returns to an old ex’s apartment to collect his things.
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