T o get a handle on Amy Beeder’s And So Wax Was Made, and Also Honey, which was released with Tupelo Press in 2020, one need ...

Coughing, ululating, barking, whooping. Old men coughing, clinging, coughing.

Erich J. Prince is the editor-in-chief at Merion West. With a background in journalism and media criticism, he has contributed to newspapers such as The Philadelphia Inquirer and The News & Observer, ...

“He feels himself watched/as he counts accents./He knows the painter’s/watching for the precise moment/when his blue ink freezes.” and only that. Those dreams we meant to cool. Other dreams, built of ...

The actress from Part One: coattails flying as you walk past.” ...

“It is precisely because we all break our rules that we enjoy this story about this man who never breaks his rules. The knight in shining armor, or in this case the Dark Knight, is the hope that there ...

Erich J. Prince is the editor-in-chief at Merion West. With a background in journalism and media criticism, he has contributed to newspapers such as The Philadelphia Inquirer and The News & Observer, ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

“We need more visionaries and integrated fields…because just as the human body is a complex interplay of atomic, molecular, cellular, and systemic processes, so too must be our approach to increasing ...

“Ever human-centric/We self-aggrandized/Anthropomorphized/And now agonize.” ...

Ray Greenblatt is an editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal and teaches a “Joy of Poetry” course at Temple University-Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. His most recent book of poetry is From an Old ...

“He was flanked by fields of dead sunflowers that could not be harvested because of the renewed Russian offensive.” The driver pulled up alongside him and stopped the truck. From our perch in the bed, ...