Photographers Snip, Snap
Five years ago, I gave my first autograph. On an average Tuesday, I had ventured into the Chicago rain, black…
Category: Original Lit
Every Available Space by Nat Whilk
A doctor in a white coat enters a crowded press conference as lights flash and cameras click. Television cameras are…
A Father’s Advice from Yeats, Jay-Z, and Kanye West
As fate would have it, this August I was reading a collection of William Butler Yeats’s poetry around the same…
Hidden Divinity: Poems by Sonnet Mondal
Hidden Divinity I have been waking up each midnight, each dawn, at the end of each passing hour to see…
No Leaders Among Men by Melissa R. Mendelson
The stage was set. The velvet red curtain swayed with anticipation. Nervous smiles lit up the sea of rows, hoping…
Windspirits by Charlotte von Lilienfeld-Kechtel
Ra Wind Spirits, Bedouin, Belay, Whisper to my Ear, Water-way. Sand carries Light Amulet. Star Fly. Trees Choose In Swaying…
A Certain Kind of Uncertainty: An Interview with George Bilgere
Last week I was fortunate enough to catch George Bilgere for an interview. I recently gave a review of his captivating and…
Poem for Maxwell Bodenheim by Olly Bryan
thru language a revelation of what cannot be revealed in a multitude of selves vying for oneself purpose unseen unheard…
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
“Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet, and it’s great when I’m in my garden, but the…
Being and Donuts
Well, it took three weeks before I first dropped into Jumping Donuts on the corner of Bleeker and Hudson, where,…