Euphoria
I cut my finger, the sanguine smell Permeates the air like petrichor. The blood flows slow like caramel Delighting in its long encore. My...
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By Adam Sedia
- Apr 2
- 9 min
Why Amanda Gorman Is Not a Poet
Amanda Gorman became something of a phenomenon, fêted as a celebrity from the moment she read her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” amid the...
By David B. Gosselin
- Apr 2
- 1 min
The Foggy Peaks
The peaks were barely seen that night—they hid Among a sea of aster-painted clouds. The skies were filled with stars that shone like...
By Daniel Leach
- Apr 1
- 6 min
The Devil at Woodstock
I was a mere sixteen that Summer day We all piled in a beat-up car and drove To Woodstock, or someplace we had been told That a great...
Translation
- Apr 1
- 1 min
Art by Théophile Gauthier
Yes, art comes far more thrilling from forms that are averse to drilling, enamel, onyx, verse. To Hell with false constrictions! But to...
By Ryan Hamadeh
- Mar 31
- 17 min
Retracing Art
So long have historians traced the beginnings of man, so long have they found the traces of art alongside him. The story of art can also...
By Karel Vereycken
- Mar 27
- 6 min
Some Remarks on Chinese Painting and Its Influence on the West
Between 700 to 1700, and in particular during the Chinese Renaissance under the Song Dynasty (960-1279), China’s greatest contribution to...
By John H. B. Martin
- Mar 23
- 2 min
An Artist & Other Poems
An Artist "That man's silences were marvellous to listen to." — Thomas Hardy "Under The Greenwood Tree." I "Out of pure moonshine have I...
Translation
- Mar 20
- 1 min
Wang Wei's "Deer Park" & Other Poems
"Lu Zhai" ("Deer Park") by Wang Wei (699-759) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Uninhabited hills ... except that now...
By Adam Sedia
- Mar 15
- 11 min
The Parable of the Red Sky
After crossing the Great Mountains, I saw before me, to the west, a vast and sprawling plain. Many great rivers crossed its fertile...