In “The Bitterroot Path,” one watches her move from lyric’s uncontaminated source of wonder in its Romantic roots to ...

Bruises bloom roses; the blind bird has fled. Francoise Nieto-Fong was born in New York City to a Colombian father and a ...

The deregulation of air travel and other sectors of the economy in the 1970s was (and continues to be), in my view, a ...

“Five years later, Orwell published an essay called ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War,’ in which he states, ‘War is evil, and ...

John Repp is a poet, fiction writer, folk photographer, and digital collagist living in Erie, Pennsylvania. Seven Kitchens ...

Everyone lives in some kind of common sense reality. We live in a world of discrimination, order, hierarchies, competence etc ...

In one of its scenes, young women in long, white nightgowns holding lanterns, from behind a scrim walked out of that holler ...

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 ...

“Seek mercy for eggs we scrambled in a youth/spent banging pots and pans together./For the telling of clumsy lies, our voices/cracking like pecans together.” Sans God, what grief can we stand together ...

Jonathan Church is a contributing editor at Merion West. He is a government economist with a background in energy economics and inflation measurement. In addition to authoring several essays, he has ...