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Category: Poetry

  • COVER ART: In Parentheses Literary Magazine: Spring 2020 [CROWDS] (Volume 5 Issue 4)

    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…

  • Afternoon Dream (Low Fever) & Other Poems by M. Mitchell

    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…

  • “Black Urban Myth” & “Hairitage” by Candice Ralph

    “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’…

  • Now Available: In Parentheses Magazine (Summer 2016)

    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…

  • Elizabeth (Excerpts) by M. Keener

    Elizabeth (Excerpts) by M. Keener

    McKinley Keener is an undergrad Writing major at Pratt Institute. My work has appeared in Juked, Poetry Quarterly, and One Sentence Poems. Elizabeth, Part I the night before Christmas

  • Excerpt from “Eli” … by G. Mramor

    Excerpt from “Eli” … by G. Mramor

    Moonlight fades on the treeline and stars ride out on the waves blurry like candles on panes of rain. He asks so she puts him down and he cozies on her chest mumbling something about her boobs. Last lights strain out like threads into a million infinities and the moon is gone. Sunk in the night…

  • Poems by Gary Beck

    Poems by Gary Beck

    Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director, and as an art dealer when he couldn’t make a living in theater. He has 11 published chapbooks. His poetry collections include: Days of Destruction (Skive Press), Expectations (Rogue Scholars Press). Dawn in Cities, Assault on Nature, Songs of a Clerk, Civilized…

  • Fall 2015 Anthology Issue of In Parentheses Literary Magazine

    We’re back. In Parentheses Literary Magazine (Fall 2015) By In Parentheses in IP Volume 4 40 pages, published 10/20/2015 (Anthology issue) Volume 4, Issue 1 of In Parentheses Literary Magazine Thank you to all our submitters and loyal followers who have kept along in the past year.

  • All of them…by G. Mramor

    I am not the dream they made You hide because I am not the Father of your children nor the Ghost of a love they took from You and made something sick.

  • Feature: “Just Sign this Concerned” by S. Vargo

    Feature: “Just Sign this Concerned” by S. Vargo

    In the Feature Series, we hand-select material from past In Parentheses Literary Magazine publications and highlight them on our blog for a new audience. Submit work to In Parentheses here. Samuel Vargo has written poetry and short stories for print and online literary magazines, university journals and a few commercial magazines. Mr. Vargo worked most of his…