Category: American Cities
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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…
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Poetry submission: Aboard the greyhound by Elena Carpi
Elena Carpi is a graduate of Temple University where she studied English literature and Italian language. She has lived in France, Italy and Colombia and is currently living in Western Massachusetts where she is working on an Alpaca farm and writing her first novel. You can find her poetry and prose at http://elenacarpi.wordpress.com/ … I…
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Live from 125th Street: Responses to the Acquittal of George Zimmerman by M. Pitter
HARLEM, New York City — On this hot July day following the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Harlem streets, notable as the cultural center for Afro-American identity in this country, were characterized by spills of grief and expressions of fury aimed at a legal system that openly justified the murder of young Trayvon Martin. The…
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Happy Belated!
Alessandra De Soto, a New York native yet raised abroad in the Dominican Republic, relocated to Florida at the age of 17 where she started a career in ‘corporate America’. After profiting from her endeavors, she moved to New York City to pursue her repressed dreams of entertaining as an actress, singer, writer and producer.…
