The Oakleaf, Down in the Dirt, Ethereal Journal, and Witcraft have published work from James Bellanca’s first year as a poet.

“Entering old age may start to change this trend [of maturation] again, as the elderly revert to a form of infancy…As the end ...

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid ...

For the overwhelming majority of people, running transcends identity. The point of competing in a road race like a 5K or ...

Katie Kenney is a recent graduate of University of Denver’s Publishing Institute and received her MFA in Creative Writing ...

“It has published on a range of topics that perhaps seemed controversial to someone at some time (specifically, academics in the early 2020s) but certainly not to the broader culture in 2025.” “Over ...

The breeze of early october makes all drunk while blows. Disappears very soon. As the passing pumpkin moon. Like a dream so phenomenal, like a diamond glows. Melancholic sense grows. Sarah Samarbaf is ...

“Yet these walls sound with echoes of the past,/With whispered prayers which linger in the air/And animate this space – still holding fast:/A shelter from the passing world’s despair.” A shelter from ...

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 ...