Michael Farrell was born in Bayshore, Long Island but moved to the beautiful Finger Lakes region of NY when he was four. He ...

I want to save California and America from the dangers of artificial intelligence. California is my birthplace and home, as well as the state where my wife and I raise our two young daughters. However ...

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

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 ...

The Oakleaf, Down in the Dirt, Ethereal Journal, and Witcraft have published work from James Bellanca’s first year as a poet. He is a retired high school English teacher.

“With Vice President Vance as President Trump’s heir apparent, it is difficult to envision a restoration of principled conservatism any time soon. Meanwhile, the country’s political class is plagued ...

“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 ...

our yard sale hearts, our porch light out. Katie Kenney is a recent graduate of University of Denver’s Publishing Institute and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University.

“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 ...