"Scarface Nation" [by Ken Tucker]
Highly recommended. Scarface Nation: The Ultimate Gangster Movie by Ken Tucker (St. Martin’s Press) Not merely the behind-the-scenes making of the 1983 De Palma/Pacino film (and the 1932 Howard Hawks/Paul…
The Passion for Health
Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
Highly recommended. Scarface Nation: The Ultimate Gangster Movie by Ken Tucker (St. Martin’s Press) Not merely the behind-the-scenes making of the 1983 De Palma/Pacino film (and the 1932 Howard Hawks/Paul…
We are thrilled to welcome Charif Shanahan as our next guest editor. He is editing the summer 2023 issues of Poetry with the magazine’s editorial team. The poet Marie Howe…
Dear Readers, I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season. I am thrilled to share the front cover of Hidden in Childhood: A Poetry Anthology to be released by Literary…
The Music I Didn’t Got Me Here Anyway The misadventures of my youth included tons of melodic ad venture: brass mouthpieces freezing my lips off, fingering chopped and screwed Scott…
I read your words and a thousand childhoods burrowed into my heart. My Dear Readers Thank you to everyone who submitted to Literary Revelations Publishing House’s collection Hidden in Childhood:…
Suyog Ketkar is a certified technical writer who specializes in content-design interoperability. He has published two books, ‘The Dogfight and the Lone Peacekeeper’ in 2021 and ‘The Write Stride –…
The Second Coming (1919) BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon…
the cold soil remembered where we’d trod. an ugly map of all the places we’d destroyed. the gentle wolves would wait to hunt. until after the sun would set. but…
Thank you again to the contributors to our Literary Revelations Poetry Anthology Hidden in Childhood. I am truly humbled you trusted me with your magnificent poetry. Equally, thank you to…
someday you’ll sit across from me saying similes explain the human condition—we can never be ourselves but only like ourselves (though some of us ascend to metaphor). at first I…