by Helen Ivory | Jul 17, 2025 | Featured, Prose
Second to None Chad, an aspiring author, sank into his easy chair and drifted into a reverie. He found himself, not in his apartment but in a dusty courthouse at the center of a nameless small town. The kind of town with cracked sidewalks, sagging...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 16, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
After the Storm With the completion of mindset my life is in order, two weeks after the day before. Anyone can aspire to cultural intelligence, feast on the corpse of public discourse but I’ve got the music to go with it. Despite feverish...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 15, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Venn diagram featuring working-class wages and lemons Those times my tongue becomes a lemon filling my mouth with bitter pith stoppering sound so it coagulates in my throat, becomes a stuck fruit; I must breathe through my nose in short, calm...
by IB | Jul 14, 2025 | Reviews
Poet Amlanjyoti Goswami’s third collection of verses, A Different Story (Poetrywala, 2025), conjures a subject that resists acts of dumping trauma, instead alchemizing them into dry humor and decorous irreverence, sans complacency or arrogance. This curious...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 14, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Wah-Wah Pedal Poem I hide a knife amongst a bush longing to burn, days like these are plots from a heathen’s bible. Broken glass, making noise on the skeleton-throne night becomes heartless stone, guilty as mathematics bleeding poetry from...
