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  • Artist of the Week ? Pathik Patel
    An interview with the wild nature photographer Pathik Patel by Aneliya Angelcheva Urbanisation is a worldwide trend in the 21st century. The rapid globalization results in more build-up area leading to deforestation. According to a recent global assessment (FAO 2006) forests cover 30% of the total land area of the world while the total forest area [...]

  • The Week?Chocolate temptations with Merilyn Monroe
    Photo: hevertonwoss If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere. Photo: shimelle It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far. Photo: katjohnston Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes [...]

  • Exhumed
    Julie Barbour Photo: kcdstm I heard someone sing: To love is to bury and at the time misunderstood, my mind buried in the building of music between us. Now, in retrospect, (and there is so much), dirt surrounded me, kept me still. To your questions: weren?t you good enough, weren?t we? my only answer is my body moving freely, unearthed.

  • Accents Publishing 2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest Results
    2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest Results Accents Publishing is proud to announce the results of its 2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest. Metes and Bounds, by J. Kates, was selected by judge Dr. Richard Taylor. Plein Jeu, by E. C. Belli, was selected by Accents Publishing Senior Editor Katerina Stoykova-Klemer. Both of these entries will be published as perfect-bound chapbooks, and [...]

  • Artist of the Week ? Julie Kaye
    Interview with the visual artist Julie Kaye by Aneliya Angelcheva Julie Kaye was born in Leeds, United Kingdom. She received her BA at Leeds college of Art. Since her emergence in 2008 Julie Kaye has blended the concerns and methods of Pop and Conceptual art. Evolving new techniques of expressive popular culture to create her own [...]

  • The Week? Fountains with Dostoevsky
    Photo: vickispix The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. Photo: kmndr Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters: to be able to dare! Photo: dominicspics Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. Photo: jordansorensen Happiness does not lie in happiness, [...]

  • Oh, fruit of light!
    Peter Kraevski Photo: yogendra174 Oh, fruit of light! Swell with love! Ripen with sadness! Sweeten juices ? dreams! And let your fragrant thoughts be honeyed dew upon your tender skin! Your taste I do adore! ? This whisper was the mighty voice of light. I soaked up its peremptory behest with words that creep like ivy ? here in the shadow of the vines afore the coming day of vintage. [...]

  • Crackling Again
    Donal Mahoney Photo: bsabarnowl Rogers Park, Chicago This brilliant winter morning finds waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah once again as down the street stroll ancient men who every morning shuffle here for prayer. As usual, they’re lost inside old overcoats, their collars up, their scarves too long, their yarmulkes, as always, in diffidence askew. This morning, though, they don’t go in. They shuffle near the curb like [...]

  • Artist of the Week ? Abby Hollandsworth
    Interview with the young photographer Abby Hollandsworth by Elisaveta Baltova Abby Hollandsworth is a 16 year old photographer, born and raised on the East Coast of the United States. At the age of 12 she bought her first camera, and her passion for photography grew from there. Over time she came up with more and more [...]

  • Rod-Stroked Survival, With a Deadly Hammer
    Michael Lee Johnson Photo: Robert Marin Rebecca fantasized that life was a lottery ticket or a pull of a lever, that one of the bunch in her pocket was a winner or the slots were a redeemer; but life itself was not real that was strictly for the mentally insane at the Elgin Mental Institution. She gambled her savings away on [...]