Category: The Metaphysics Before Us
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Field Agent – Mixed Media by Jonathan Hunt
Jonathan Hunt grew up in San Francisco, and studies Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin. He believes that Engineering is a junction of Art and Science, and relentlessly explores both. He writes music, draws, collages, and does mixed media and digital art. More of Jonathan’s work here (He was also the cover artist for the…
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To erase all sound…by G. Mramor
The girls are crying on the seaboard. They swing from ropes and bash into boards, their small fat breasts half bare, clawing at their throats. The water cuts black and makes no sound. Behind the hill across the way the sun sets a waving dread behind Saint Stephen’s stand. The clouds are still, whole bodies…
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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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‘along the happenstance of thought’ by phillipe chatelain
along the happenstance of thought do thoughts drown while asleep like a shark in place! the light doesn’t reach them completely. they float
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Submission- Re: Gallows by N Marata
To think of surgical gallows Through broken garden paths Like a stubborn tulip Who loved the moon instead Frayed, I go and leap Through noxious sewer-creeks “Plop!” go the stepping-stones As my father did before Sprint past the torn meadow Through fallen trunks and shoots And fading past The hymns he used to…
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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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Poetry submission: 3:44 by M. Bowen
Matti Bowen is a graduate of Binghamton University, where she studied English and Cinema. A self confessed Knowledge Omnivore, she revels in the richness of human expression found in everything from blog culture, to science fiction, to home improvement television and Melville. She currently lives in the north Hudson Valley with her dog and far…
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On the morning of oblivion…by G. Mramor
On the morning of oblivion I rise with the mourning star. I move through the crowds and let our shoulders bump, our hands touch, our eyes wonder. In the park light dazzles children climbing hills, dashing fields, running the jungle gyms lords of all. And in the cafes hairy legs and summer dresses, grizzly beards…
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Where roots spread into oblivions…by G. Mramor
Where roots spread into oblivions,