Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked ...

Gary Blanton was a young married father living in the state of Washington when, in 2012, Patrick Drum shot him to death for ...

“Among a murder of mannequins/the guilty can’t be picked out of a lineup.” There are no poker tells.

Walter Block, an Austrian school economist and anarcho-libertarian philosopher, is Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Chair in ...

His book, Say Hello to Metamodernism, published in 2024, draws from the best of the website, offering an accessible ...

“The woods sigh. And then, a thousand miles away,/I’m in your arms again. Your breathing is an ocean./I’m drifting away. You whisper.” Guided by lamplight, I keep the river in my left ear. The path ...

If what they stood for was a lifelong lie. Any spare change of faith that you emerge with, Keep it as consolation. Here’s the thing: There is a fervor that I do not surge with, A saintliness with ...

“I scatter the sandpipers who/run from me/but not/the tides.” for them to hold me still?. Julian Kanagy is a Chicago-based poet whose work sets out to explore questions he cannot find the words to ask ...