Category: criticism
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COVER ART: In Parentheses Literary Magazine: Spring 2020 [CROWDS] (Volume 5 Issue 4)
The cover art for the Spring Issue of In Parentheses print release has been selected. The artwork is “Routine” by Kiwana S also known as @filthylogic on Instagram. For the theme of the Spring issue and the last installment of Volume 5, we will be featuring CROWDS — something we may not see again socially for…
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Afternoon Dream (Low Fever) & Other Poems by M. Mitchell
Mark J. Mitchell’s latest novel, The Magic War just appeared from Loose Leaves Publishing. He studied writing at UC Santa Cruz under Raymond Carver and George Hitchcock. His work has appeared in the several anthologies and hundreds of periodicals. Three of his chapbooks— Three Visitors, Lent, 1999, and Artifacts and Relics—and the novel, Knight Prisoner…
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“Black Urban Myth” & “Hairitage” by Candice Ralph
Candice Ralph is a young writer, teaching artist, and nanny. She’s influenced by her discussions with children and ecological experiences. Although American born, she intimately identifies with her Bermudian and West Indian origins. Candice holds an English BA from The University of Chicago and is pursuing a Creative Writing MFA. Black Urban Myth Our sisters’…
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Now Available: In Parentheses Magazine (Summer 2016)
Hello friends! Hope everyone is having a lovely summer. In this issue of IP (Vol. 4 Issue 2) we feature the work of many great artists: Michael Pitter, Sam Weinstein, Annie Terrazzo, M. Fagan Kuhnmuench, Adelia Amineva, Louisa Mardirossian, Samuel Vargo, Alexa Wejko, Luanne Castle, Robert Beveridge, Gary Beck, Jessica Gawrych, Holly Day, Suman Jampala, Carmen…
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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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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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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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WTF: Should we be mad at Rolling Stone?
If you haven’t heard by now, Rolling Stone magazine has released the cover for its August 1st issue, featuring prominently the bushy visage of the Boston Marathon Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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“Fix your head in My Crown” – Jay-Z releases Magna Carta Holy Grail
Last night the Internet hiccupped as Jay-Z had his coronation at midnight by way of his Magna Carta Holy Grail. HOV’s new album, named after the charter that limited the powers of the monarch in 13th Century England, is also arguably one of the most heavily promoted albums of the 21st Century. The hip-hop world…
