Category: NYC
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Seeing all that was good in the land…by G. Mramor
Because I was there for the parting of the lakes and I saw the sun swallowed up by a whale and yet I stood transfixed as fires from sunset ran into houses dorming families thrown together in stitches from the war’s end and I watched muted as trees bludgeoned the ends of houses till they…
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Life Without Motion: A Conversation with Sculptress Carole Feuerman by M. Pitter
In today’s world, many people would agree that what is deemed ‘reality’ exists only as far as the collection of each person’s subjective range of awareness, whether physical or metaphysical. But then, some could say “No: Reality is an objective truth concurrent with the passage of time in which all people, things and places exist.”…
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Off the L Train – A Selection of Photographs by Brian Oscar Ouk
Brian Oscar Ouk is a photographer based out of Brooklyn, NY. He’s a believer in Charlie Bucket, Holden Caulfield, and Bobby Fischer. He enjoys twice baked potatoes and is colorblind. *** To see more of Brian’s work, be sure to visit his website: www.oscarouk.com
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ORDER NOW: In Parentheses Magazine (OCT 2013) & FREE MUSIC
It is with great pleasure that we bring to you the next issue of In Parentheses. This issue features sublime work from the following contributors: Aviva Cristy, Kamden Hilliard, Hannah Lejter, Luis Nieto Dickens, William Ogden Haynes, Jon Dambacher, Jim Davis, Hannah Beth Ragland, Jessica Van De Kemp, Julia Lucrecia Taveras, Audie Jinks, Rohan Ghatak, Nicole…
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COVER ART: In Parentheses Literary Magazine: October 2013 (Volume 2 Issue 2)
The cover of the upcoming issue of In Parentheses is ‘Delay’ by Magda Dudziak. Issue available October 1, 2013. For more work by her, as well as other great artists and writers, be sure to get a copy when it comes out! Download past issues of IP for free here.
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Don’t close your eyes please…by G. Mramor
Don’t close your eyes please. I want to look at you more before you start to dream. I want to see you grow up and be an old lady walking by your side. No no, don’t cry. It’s just a kiss. There’ll be lotsa kisses in your life. But this one’s special because it’s from…
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On Surviving A Crackhead In The BLDG by Julia Taveras
I am her. Her blood flows from my pen. Her cries tremble inside my eyes and they flood with rage. “This house is but a butchery/ Fear it, abhor it/ Do not enter it.” Shakespeare was talking about structure on this one; our structure. Social structures: the ones that shun those without title or consumption…
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#Bussinglife: On Why I Took The Worst P/T Job I’ve Ever Had (Julia Taveras)
Contrary to the popular assumption that an aspiring writer and performer must also have a PhD in waiting tables, after four years of living in New York, I’d never had a restaurant job. Fresh from moving and starting college, my first job in the city was at my University’s Art & Design Library, then I…
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Correlations between Heat and Hostility by M.Pitter
In Act I Scene I of William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, the Earl of Westmoreland reckoned that the cause of the recent violence was due to the hot climate of the summer season. In Shakespeare’s famously enigmatic syntax, Westmoreland reflects and reasons: “On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there, Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald, That…
