Category: Submitted Material
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G.O.O.D Music’s Cruel Summer: Not Everyone is Loving the Crew – a Review by M. Krenek
For almost a decade Kanye West and his team have proven their ability to utilize amazing samples from Chaka Khan’s “Through the Fire” to Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness,” and G.O.O.D Music’s Cruel Summer is no different. This collective album has a good balance of street songs versus quasi poetic numbers; unfortunately only some…
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Issue 2: October 2012
PROMO: The second issue of In Parentheses Literary Magazine is coming October 1, 2012. Counting the days. Submissions click here.
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A Call to the Public
At about the midpoint between our very successful first issue and the highly anticipated October issue, we are looking to revamp the In Parentheses brand by opening a call to new contributors for the IP Blog. We see the blog as a very important connection to our public that runs alongside the print quarterly, and…
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Dream Burial – Short Story Submission by J. Alston
Jonathan Alston is a young graduate from CSU: Sacramento’s Creative Writing Master’s program. He believes that words change the course of existence, nothing else really matters. Writing is working, and work is writing. *** Well that’s me Just a’drinkin’ off this bottle and a’driftin’ out to sea Well that’s me Just a’sittin’ here starin’ and…
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Social Entrepreneurship – Essay by L. Wald
Leah Wald surfs, races horses and plays soccer. She traveled to a former FMLN guerilla base in El Salvador to help build an eco-tourism business. Later, she founded a company that exports cashmere from Mongolia and reinvests its profits into various development projects. She studied International Political Economy and is currently getting a business degree…
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Pharmarcade – Poem Submission by J Matthews
Jason Matthews‘ career in the textbook trade ended without his editor ever realizing that he padded the word-search puzzles with the lyrics to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, written phonetically, diagonally, and backwards. PHARMARCADE He’s all mouth, running that same maze forever
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“The Powers that Be” – Poem Submission by J Park
Baltimore native Jeffrey Park currently lives in Munich, Germany, where he works at a private secondary school and teaches business English to adults. His latest poems have appeared in Requiem, Deep Tissue, Danse Macabre, Crack the Spine, Right Hand Pointing and elsewhere, and his digital chapbook, Inorganic, has just been published online by White Knuckle…
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Let America be Wrong – Poems by B Nardolilli
Ben Nardolilli lives in Virginia. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, The 22 Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, Pear Noir, and The Minetta Review. He has a chapbook: “Common Symptoms of an Enduring Chill Explained.” He blogs at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com. Let America Be Wrong Yes, I have a wide place In a land that’s mine,
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From: “Fault Lines” – Submission by G Beck
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director. His novel ‘Acts of Defiance’ is being published by Trestle Press and ‘Extreme Change’ is being published by Cogwheel Press. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry has appeared in hundreds of…
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Poem Submission by H Calhoun
Harry Calhoun has been haunting the poetry scene for over 30 years. Two books and several chapbooks over the past three years. Several Pushcart nominations; publications in Chiron Review, Abbey, Orange Room Review, Gutter Eloquence, Lily and others. Current project: a chapbook of love poems, How Love Conquers the World. The Portrait of Me Making one last bedtime check In dark…
