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“Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech,” says Henry David Thoreau. Open: Journal of Arts & Letters agrees that this is a simple and natural assumption.

November 2018

Featured Writer: Natalie Young’s Poem “The Alien Takes the Human’s Tears”

Featured Writer: Natalie Young’s Poem “The Alien Takes the Human’s Tears”

By OJAL Art Journal| 2018-11-18T14:14:26+00:00 November 14th, 2018|FEATURED, FEATURED WRITERS, FEATURED WRITERS, LITERARY ARTS, Lyric, Poetry|

Natalie Young The Alien Takes the Human’s Tears After “Topography of Tears” a photo series by Rose-Lynn Fisher "Abstracted Blue Spruce" by Andrew Marshall places them under a microscope to reveal primal [...]

Poetry: David Villaverde’s “今野真理, 吉沢正美, 難波絵梨香, 野本綾子 “

Poetry: David Villaverde’s “今野真理, 吉沢正美, 難波絵梨香, 野本綾子 “

By OJAL Art Journal| 2018-11-09T20:29:09+00:00 November 9th, 2018|LITERARY ARTS, Lyric, Poetry|

David Villaverde 今野真理, 吉沢正美, 難波絵梨香, 野本綾子 "Untitled Abstract" by Sohrab Sepehri all we have are words four children dead, no answers no closure, no end to words that will not die, a [...]

Poetry: Rodney Nelson’s “Up There”

Poetry: Rodney Nelson’s “Up There”

By OJAL Art Journal| 2018-11-08T00:40:17+00:00 November 8th, 2018|LITERARY ARTS, Lyric, Poetry|

Rodney Nelson Up There "Golden" by Zlatko Crlj you see the district on the hill you must have known the orange poplar leaves of it around an iron bench you would recall [...]

Poetry: Rodney Nelson’s “A Round of Mast”

Poetry: Rodney Nelson’s “A Round of Mast”

By OJAL Art Journal| 2018-11-08T00:28:26+00:00 November 8th, 2018|LITERARY ARTS, Lyric, Poetry|

Rodney Nelson A Round of Mast "Beech Grove I" by Gustav Klimt weeks’ chill and wet when the leaves were ready put muffling on the switch of day and night [...]

Haibun Feature: Contributing Editor Christine Taylor’s “Introduction to A Celebration of Haibun”

Haibun Feature: Contributing Editor Christine Taylor’s “Introduction to A Celebration of Haibun”

By OJAL Art Journal| 2018-10-28T15:21:58+00:00 October 28th, 2018|FEATURED, Featured Writer, FEATURED WRITERS, FEATURED WRITERS, Haibun, LITERARY ARTS, Lyric, Mixed Forms, Narrative, Poetry|

Christine Taylor Introduction to O:JA&L's Celebration of Haibun "Vapor" by Dan Frost Nearly twenty years ago as a graduate student of English literature, I became taken by haiku during a seminar on [...]

Poetry: Ken Olson’s “Dog Star”

Poetry: Ken Olson’s “Dog Star”

By OJAL Art Journal| 2018-10-12T17:15:28+00:00 October 12th, 2018|LITERARY ARTS, Lyric, Poetry|

Ken Olson Dog Star "The Chevy Chase: Hartburn" by William Hamilton dog star a mockingbird's song close enough to touch About the writer: Ken Olson [...]

Poetry: Ken Olson’s “Sunrise”

Poetry: Ken Olson’s “Sunrise”

By OJAL Art Journal| 2018-10-12T17:16:05+00:00 October 12th, 2018|LITERARY ARTS, Lyric, Poetry|

Ken Olson Sunrise "The Chevy Chase" by William Hamilton sunrise the hedgerow's dark places About the writer: Ken Olson is a Vietnam War veteran [...]

Poetry: E.M. Jennings’s “Blush”

Poetry: E.M. Jennings’s “Blush”

By OJAL Art Journal| 2018-10-02T20:25:00+00:00 October 2nd, 2018|LITERARY ARTS, Lyric, Poetry|

E.M. Jennings Blush "Man in a Red Turban" by Jan van Eyck Van Eyck piqued angelic skin with just a breath of pink, as if angels were our kin, a [...]

Poetry: Robin White’s “You asked me in a bar”

Poetry: Robin White’s “You asked me in a bar”

By OJAL Art Journal| 2018-09-18T22:45:21+00:00 September 18th, 2018|LITERARY ARTS, Lyric, Poetry|

Robin White You Asked Me in a Bar "Liebespaar" by Otto Mueller You asked me in a bar how many women have you slept with and I told you I don’t know. [...]

Poetry: Marcia J Pradzinski’s “In Waves”

Poetry: Marcia J Pradzinski’s “In Waves”

By OJAL Art Journal| 2018-09-15T14:05:29+00:00 September 15th, 2018|LITERARY ARTS, Lyric, Poetry|

Marcia J Pradzinski In Waves ~after Eleni Sikelianos A red longing feathers my arms "Sunset" by Felix Valloton when I hear the word sunset, not sunset but sculling: to drown the [...]

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