Carolyn Martin’s poems have appeared in more than 200 publications throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia. She ...

Mark Connelly’s fiction has appeared in Indiana Review, Milwaukee Magazine, Cream City Review, The Ledge, The Great American ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

far away, blind to the actuality of being.

“Nevertheless, I am often struck by how many great thinkers have also been great walkers.” Ambulator nascitur, non fit. As far as Thoreau was concerned, walkers were born not made. “It requires a ...

“The tower tall strikes bells. The day slinks out/Leaving behind skies watercolor clear/And gives the evening air the taste of song” ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

“And so things continue as before, because in a post-historical era, sprinkled with German-Hegelian state worship and a view of oneself as the summit of civilizational development, there is no need to ...

“we struck/each other so often, too often,/like astronauts/scraping for the last flight/back to earth” for all I could not say. You hit the brakes. “Get out.” “No.” “No one curses at me.” “It’s not at ...

“I was born in the 1990s, into one of the countless middle-class Indian families that were sprouting like saplings after the rains, in the wake of the 1991 economic reforms. India was shaking off the ...