Dec 31, 2024 · “Reviving a Merion West tradition, I present here a list, though not a ranking, of some of my favorite articles that Merion West has published this year.”. R eviving a Merion West tradition, I present here a list, though not a ranking, of some of my favorite articles that Merion West has published this year. Although a hopelessly subjective exercise, it provides an opportunity to highlight ...

Dec 27, 2024 · Lalesh Aldarwish “The hand drops a fresh globe/into the scoured skull, secures breath upon/the hemispheric nostrils and stands back,/appraising…”

Apr 15, 2020 · (AP Photo/Michael Probst) “I recently met up with an old friend, a staunch Marxist, at a traditional Viennese café to catch up and talk about our political differences.

Jan 22, 2025 · (Anton Uniqueton) “How/it both is, and is not/a type of existence.” after Magritte . This is not another poem about the moon. or the last strawberry popsicle of August

3 days ago · (Pixabay) “ Yet what might in lesser hands become mere effusions is tempered with a wise, sometimes steely, sometimes self-abnegating, sometimes mournful contemplative voice that speaks of philosophical and personal concerns combined…” T he Romantic poets, who were the forerunners of what is now called eco-poetry, marveled at the splendor of the natural world—albeit one arguably less ...

Jan 22, 2025 · (Shane Kell) “ If a stranger comes around, if he’s wise, he will keep to the road and announce his business soon, clearly and loudly, then you’ll see what’s what. You’re not against him, but you’re not automatically for him.” M y father, whose namesake I am, was born in a makeshift cabin in a holler in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. It was called The Hainted Holler because haints ...

Sep 26, 2024 · (Winston Churchill visits with Marines during a trip to Iceland on 16 August 1941/USMC Archives) “ Perhaps it is because of my own bias toward [Darryl Cooper as a friend, but the responsibility for such imprecise talk is something I place on [Tucker] Carlson, not on his interview subject.” I have, for many years, recommended Darryl Cooper’s hit podcast Martyr Made to the relative handful ...

Jan 3, 2025 · 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 Quechua oral tradition.

You can submit poetry and essays through our submission manager Duosuma by Duotrope. Before submitting, please review the guidelines below. We are open to poetry ranging from strictly formal verse to experimental poetry. Yet we do have premises and preferences. The Arts section of Merion West ...

5 days ago · anything sublime as a peach after a fast. John Repp is a poet, fiction writer, folk photographer, and digital collagist living in Erie, Pennsylvania. Seven Kitchens Press has just published his twelfth chapbook of poetry, Star Shine in the Pines ...