Digital World Living the digital world, staring for hours on the computer screens, Instagram that, Facebook, Twitter this, Quora that, writing on a Word Doc, you gotta snap back into the real world bang, it hits you it’s real and overwhelming, to see a real eye, and a real nose, teeth, you stagger like a … Continue reading Poetry by Damion Hamilton
Our Winning Season
By Mark Kodama 1. The nice thing about a small town is that its people always take care of you. So when my big brother Pete was injured in the football game, he did not have to worry. God is always teaching you something. My parents are local lawyers. My mom only works part time … Continue reading Our Winning Season
The Untranslatable: Litost
By Thomas Page The Untranslatable This is a series of poems of words that do not directly translate into English. I have tried to capture the essence of the word in a poem. In the pit of the stomachs mixing acids like cocktails In some melancholic bar sitting across a snowy window There is a … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Litost
Prelude
By Marc Carver There is no passion no joy no soft music in the night. It has all gone I have no idea where it went perhaps it was never there all an illusion a trick. The air tastes of ash and I thought I had a Wordsworth poem right where they had it … Continue reading Prelude
Three Micro Poems by Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein
Coronation of Despair My love, I will make you the Empress of my heart under the greenwood tree. I will decorate your neck with the garland of wild flowers. Before you sit in the throne, I will spread the Longing of my heart in the path. I shall coronation you with tears of my despair. … Continue reading Three Micro Poems by Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein
The Marvelous Love Affair of Higgins Hollow (Summer, 1996)
By Michael Guendelsberger Most of us who worked at Higgins Hollow that summer of 1996 had done so for at least two or more seasons. A girl I knew from high school said she could get me a better paying job at a produce store where she worked, but changing felt too complicated and … Continue reading The Marvelous Love Affair of Higgins Hollow (Summer, 1996)
Anyone Home?
By Fabrice Poussin Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and many other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications.
Art by Bratoiu Antonio
Bratoiu Antonio is a young artist that is inspired by the sadness that is felt by the masses nowadays when technology make us more connected but less in touch. He uses parts of photos and a few words to create a story.
Will of a marginal writer
By Sunil Sharma When I die, erase all the memories as I do not wish to linger on in few digital pictures stored in a Smartphone moments, moods, posed smiles of no immediate or historical worth, social value or public relevance to family or friend or foes; I wish to be forgotten and obliterated … Continue reading Will of a marginal writer
The Untranslatable: Shouganai
By Thomas Page The Untranslatable This is a series of poems of words that do not directly translate into English. I have tried to capture the essence of the word in a poem. My grandfather has a rule about running late That when you are in the car You are in the car And can’t … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Shouganai
Academy of the Heart And Mind 