Haibun: Anna Cates’s “Question”
Anna Cates Question "Rounded Up, by God" by Henry Farny desert sky opening a purgatory of rain . . . A mystery: Who to blame for the man buried up to his neck [...]
July 2019
February 2019
Mixed Forms: Stella Pierides’s Haibun “Seriously”
Stella Pierides Seriously "Spitalfield" by William Tillyer The shelves in the beauty aisle are piled high with hand creams. Tubes, jars, bottles, tins of brands I never knew existed. So many! I stand [...]
Mixed Forms: Stella Pierides’s Haibun Triptych “Solace”
Stella Pierides Solace (a Triptych) "Three Vertical Landscapes" by Wiiliam Tillyer In a dark wood . . . Heaving streets, bulging with holiday shoppers. Shop windows in garish colours blink their version of [...]
Mixed Forms: Marc Frazier’s Haibun “Devotion”
Marc Frazier Devotion "The Setting Sun Turns the Sierra Anchas into a Painting" by Alan Levine Santa Fe lures me and I stay. For awhile. From endless, parched roads we traipse the Grand [...]
December 2018
OPEN: Journal of Arts and Letters Announces Its Slate of Pushcart Nominees
O:JA&L Nominees for 2019 Pushcart Prize NOMINATIONS LIST "A Paris Street Show" by Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin E.D. Watson's flash “Expecting” http://ojalart.com/literary-arts/fiction/flash-fiction/flash-fiction-e-d-watsons-expecting/ Erik Harper Klass's short story “City as Museum (Turkish 1)” http://ojalart.com/literary-arts/fiction/short-story/short-story-klass/ [...]
Mixed Forms: Anna Cates’s Haibun “Boy”
Anna Cates BOY "Lonely Companions" by Jared Foster She needed to believe she was beautiful, and so he let her. "Worms turn into butterflies," he said. He needed to believe she was beautiful, [...]
November 2018
Mixed Forms: David Villaverde’s Haibun “Issei Sagawa as Ouroboros”
David Villaverde Issei Sagawa as Ouroboros "Autumn Head" by Erik Brede Pang is born small enough to fit in the palm of his father’s hand. He grows and grows and learns that [...]
Haibun Feature: Kala Ramesh’s “peace of m.i.n.d”
Kala Ramesh There have been a series of rapes, incest and in plain and brutal language the complete disrespect and disregard of the girl child and young women’s rights and dignity in today’s India. There [...]
Haibun Feature: Lori Minor’s “Crash Test”
Lori Minor Writing is the best therapy I could ever ask for. Not only is it free, but I have the opportunity to help others alongside myself. Crash-test came to me as a coping mechanism [...]
Haibun Feature: Roberta Beary’s “Threading Cobwebs on the Upper West Side”
Roberta Beary Threading Cobwebs on the Upper West Side I lift my arms and float over rooftops. Gerry Keating pulls me down into his camp tent. I know he’ll marry Carol from Catholic [...]