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Uniting Cultures Through Literature & Art

"He who is different from me does

not impoverish me -he enriches me.

Our unity is constituted in something higher

than ourselves - in Man...

For no man seeks to hear his own

echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.” 

                             ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Fiction & Nonfiction

Mehreen Ahmed, "Sponge-grass"

Hugh Blanton, "Almost 20000 Years Ago"

Kevin Camp, "Sleep Deprivation Road Trip"

Jane Marston, "American Royal"

Patricia McAlexander, "Falling"

Pushcart Prize Nominees 2022

Hugh Blanton, "Almost 20000 Years Ago"

Kunal Mehra, "Airplanes and Tin Roofs"

Zeina Azzam, "Death in War"

Lenny Lianne, " Blue Willow" 

Kunal Mehra, "Airplanes and Tin Roofs"

Beth Escott Newcomer, "Survival Skills" 

Andy Palasciano, "Canoli Spumoni and the Ice Cream Man Boat Adventure"

Helen Patrice, "Four of Swords"

Penny Perry, "My Mother's Revolution"

Poetry

Duane Anderson, "Road Kill," "Good Deed," "Preferred Walking Style," & "Manual Toothbrush."

Maria A. Arana, "lips touch.., "What of the Night?" & "moon over belly button"

Zeina Azzam, "The Physics and Chemistry of Things," Death in War," & "Orphaned." 

Saloua Ben Amor, "A Thousand Deaths"

Gary Campanella, "Puddle," "Rain Returns to LA," & "Cul-de-Sac"

Robert Cooperman, "A Quick Tour of the Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota: Late Summer, 1972," "On Driving Interstate-80: Late Summer, 1972," "Driving Past Jerry Garcia’s House: Marin County, Late Summer, 1972," "A Chatter of Bats," "A Rapacity of Wolves," & "On Line at Ellis Island: Rivka Breslau, 1902"

Elexander Plutarcho Galan, "Vadim"

John Grey, "Ten Years Out of the Family House," "A Time Out From Family,"  & "Home for Cliches."

Gary Grossman, "The Minute I Realized I Was Old," "On Getting a Tattoo," Poetry On The Listserve," "Jetlag," & "Cleaning Out My Office After Four Decades."

Hedy Habra,  "Why Do You Think I Keep Sparkling Twigs After The Holidays?" &  "Why Are There Always so Many Heteroclite Persons in my Dreams?"  

Marian Haddad, "Fore(Shadow) & Light: for Ukraine"

Deborah Kaercher, "Indignation"

Hiram Larew, "Like Whistled," "What's to How," & "Uncle Never" 

Lenny Lianne, "Almost Like the Dove," "The Mother of the Bride Explains the Facts," In the Kitchen with Soup," " Blue Willow," & "First He Dug a Hole"

K.V. Raghupathi, "Summer Death"

Charles Rammelkamp, "Dabe, "What's Wrong with My Parents,?" "Eavesdropping," "Conspiracy 101," "The Usual Clueless," & "The Hook"

Patty Somlo, "Flamenco"

Jon Wesick, "Schrodinger’s Hat," & It's an Unfulfilled Life" 

S.F. Wright, "Benny and Me"

Reviews & Interviews

An interview with American Professor Richard Sears, a Specialist in Chinese language and culture by Rachid Filali

Saloua Ben Amor  Reviews Yahia Lababidi's Desert Songs.

Photography

"Fine Arts/Abstracts" by photographer, Isabella Peraldi

"Portraits" by Isabella Peraldi

M. Fiction, Fashion Editorial, "Digital" 

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M. Fiction, Fashion Editorial, "Film"

Peter Magliocco, "Wakening to Starfish,"  "Mired in the Last Super of Murder," & "The Devil's Screenplay"

K.V. Raghupathi, "An Assault on Innocent Blood" 

Lisa Ratnavira, 

“Braiding Sweetgrass,” “In Order to Reminisce...,” "Weebale Uganda," "Observation at Mabamba Swamp,"

"When Considering a Move,"  "Gorilla Advice,"  "A Psalm of Sibling Loss," & "Is it really time?"

Emalisa Rose, "The beauty of oblivion," "That photo on the fridge, "That conversation," "Needing a window," Beneath your mattress, a part of me," & "To wish away Walter" 

Kristen D. Scott, "How to Rescue

a Drowning Man" 

M. A. Schaffner, "To The Last Voter," "A Virus By Any Other Name," "Things Seen While Inhaling," "The Siege of Cherrydale," & "Sowing Seeds Within The Walls"

Gary Campanella, "Cul-de-Sac"