Category: World
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Live from 125th Street: Responses to the Acquittal of George Zimmerman by M. Pitter
HARLEM, New York City — On this hot July day following the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Harlem streets, notable as the cultural center for Afro-American identity in this country, were characterized by spills of grief and expressions of fury aimed at a legal system that openly justified the murder of young Trayvon Martin. The…
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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…
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LEAK: IP 5 Table of Contents
Still waiting for that Magna Carta Holy Grail leak? Well, here’s the best we can do to quench your thirst. The next issue of In Parentheses will be available TOMORROW (July 1, 2013). This marks our 1-Year Anniversary issue, as well as the first installment of Volume 2. Featuring works by: Wojciech, Michael Lee Johnson,…
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8 Ways to Occupy Your Eyes on the Subway by M.Pitter
Regardless of the city in which you find yourself, whether or not you keep your ears plugged and dressed with music, this list may be applied to most (if not, all) of the subterranean mass transit systems of this planet. On the train, you can: 1. Look directly at other passengers: When boarding the train,…
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The father is gone…by G. Mramor
I have not returned to set the bones in my father’s body. I have come, and these with me, we bear the oils and the cloak. Our sisters will make the words and the procession, we will mourn for centuries. But we will take him over these city walls to a city farther and there…
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They will make cities from us…by G. Mramor
And there I am, like a devil before your eyes, bouncing from lash to lash to make my way down the race of your skin and glide my fingers across your receding lips, yearning for no memory fore memory is not needed to find the trace of your beauty, like my ink through this page,…
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Mean Free Path by M. Pitter
Usually, there will be a tomorrow tomorrow as there was a yesterday yesterday. Each day expanding and contracting, sun to moon, moon to sun, in harmonic regularity. We like to freeze phases to call one ‘now’, to call another one ‘next Thursday night at 8PM’ and another one ‘last Saturday afternoon’. Meanwhile we propagate like…
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They are coming…by G. Mramor
The tranquil flow of the village is no more.
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The NEW Issue of In Parentheses Lit Mag is NOW AVAILABLE
The day has come, everybody! Our final issue of the first volume of In Parentheses Literary Magazine is now available for purchase at MagCloud. To celebrate OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY of creating the IP Blog, we have come out with two covers (by Peter Mannka). Collect both! In This Issue works by the IP Team and…
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Cosmic Samba: Styles of Life Unified by M. Pitter
The people of this world– living in different societies abroad, societies built on continents each continent shaped its own way, near seas and containing rivers filled with trees and bush indigenous only to that very place — seem foreign to each other. Coming into contact with foreign peoples could be an experience that renders any…
