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 [...]
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 [...]
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/ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bill Gottlieb As many do, I start the day devouring the news—and these days it’s often a dyspeptic meal. How to counter that daily dose of powerlessness, of political poison? This haibun was the answering [...]
Pamelyn Casto On the Road With Haibun* "The Moon Bridge at Kameido" by Helen Hyde Haibun: A Rigorous Literary Art Combining Prose and Haiku (& Sometimes Haiga) As with any complicated art [...]
Robin Anna Smith Calving occurs when a mass of ice breaks off a glacier or iceberg. It is instigated by factors such as rising temperatures, winds, and changing currents, which stress the integrity of the [...]