I’ve Come to the End – By Kenny Chumbley
With this essay, I conclude my series on fairy tales. I’ve not discussed everyone I could have (E. Nesbit and P. L. Travers, for...
My Journey as an Artist & Art Instructor – Cynthia Yatchman
I was lucky enough to grow up in a household that supported and practiced the arts. I went to elementary school at a time when...
Old Iron – By Peter Barrett
The routine was always the same. Winters, usually; summers occasionally. The search for a new car always occurred in the extremes of each season.
Dad,...
Where has all the laughter gone? – By Mitali Chakravarty
There was a time when limericks and humorous poetry made us laugh, when ‘Laughter is the Best Medicine!’ brought tears of merriment to multiple...
God in Poetry : Does He exist in the Postmodern Anarchic World? – ...
Father! Thou must lead.
Do Thou, then, breathe those thoughts into my mind
By which such virtue may in me be bred
That in...
Driving Miss Emma – By Miriam Edelson
My daughter Emma is straining to craft an identity separate from me.
At twenty-seven she is achieving this as she forges her life’s path. I...
Reading Emily Wilson’s Trash-Talking Odyssey in the Time of Covid – By Rex...
It’s late summer and I’m sitting on the couch, hurriedly flipping through the sports channels with an air of desperation, as if the pin...
The Cloak of Invisibility – By Dustin Pickering
Poets often reflect that poetry emerges from the character of the poet. As Americans are awash in the forces of contemporary life, there is...
A Bodhisattva-in-Training Contemplates Kathmandu’s Rude Motorcyclists – By Michael G. Smith
At the end of the row of Tibetan Buddhist monks, the cantor chants a prayer. Clashing Sil Nyan cymbals together, another monk adds an...
Looking beyond the Raj era literary narratives – By Mitali Chakravarty
A re-appraisal of the colonial era literary constructs is very much the need of the hour in all cultures that endured stereotyping under long...
