What comes after Post-Modernism?
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#Bussinglife: On Why I Took The Worst P/T Job I’ve Ever Had (Julia Taveras)
Contrary to the popular assumption that an aspiring writer and performer must also have a PhD in waiting tables, after four years of living in New York, I’d never had a restaurant job. Fresh from moving and starting college, my first job in the city was at my University’s Art & Design Library, then I…
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Fireworks in the Afternoon…by B. Bullock
I hate to love to be reminded of you, you carting around those fragile flowers in those trembling teenage hands, fingernails cruelly cut and soiled like you’d been off digging in some foreign country’s hot volcanic sand, smiling wearily at my wild hair, the surprise in my eyes, fighting a flinch at my sneezes spreading…
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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…
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VIDEO: U35 Poetry Night @ Marilave
U35 is a bi-monthly reading series for poets under the age of thirty-five, conceived as a space for greater community as well as diversity of voice and vision. On Tuesday, July 23, we are pleased to be featuring poets Nora Delaney, Jade Sylvan, and Mary Benson. Check out video from last Tuesday’s poetry reading, hosted…
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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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Photography by Kiwana S
If you have picked up a copy of our print magazine, you will recognize Kiwana’s work from being heavily featured in past issues. The following is a gallery of some more recent submissions. If you are a photographer and would like to be featured on our IP blog or in the print magazine: please follow…
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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…
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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.
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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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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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