Category: World

  • I who make with water…by G. Mramor

    With my hands I cut the valley and raise up the earth beyond the clouds. A whisper and the flues meet icy black at the falls. A shout and the land spreads. A cry and the ocean snaps wave rove upon wave. My heavy cough makes sharp the cliffs and the smoke from my lips…

  • Understanding an Artist II: David of Shanghai by M. Pitter

    Understanding an Artist II: David of Shanghai by M. Pitter

    张军伟 or David is a Chinese painter currently living and working in Shanghai. *** Among the tree-lined avenues of west Shanghai’s old French Concession, lives an artist who goes by the name of David. Surrounded by his paintings, his jars of tea and soft music fitting within the qualitative confines of soft and delightful, he…

  • For now or for always…by G. Mramor

    For now or for always…by G. Mramor

    Young and thinking a name is forever. Fore after years snowblind the snow has settled and runnels down in icy blue flows and rivers past my feet, colding the memory in me. Yet the oldman can only smile. Fore that mountain of ice and snow has become this valley’s basin. A cold blue that warms…

  • Correlations between Heat and Hostility by M.Pitter

    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…

  • WTF: Should we be mad at Rolling Stone?

    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.