Literature & Art

Poetry

Małopolska Mosaic

Kraków, Lesser Poland (Małopolska), Poland | Photo: Alexander Zvir   Author’s Note: This poem sprang out of the experience of crossing the border from Ukraine to Poland, seven months after the 2022 Russian invasion began, and

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Translations

Kagay-an and a Love in the Time of an All-Out War

Translator’s Note: Kagay-an and a Love in the Time of an All-Out War (2018) unfolds in the early 2000s, during former president and kleptocrat Joseph Estrada’s “all-out war” against Islamic separatists and communist insurgents in the Philippine

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Reviews

Still Here: Two Featured Reviews by Fred Marchant

Communiqués by Maria Galina / Russian and English, bi-lingual edition Translated by Anna Halberstadt & Ainsley Morse.Cicada Press, New York. (2023-24) $22.00. Those Absences Now Closest by Dzvinia OrlowskyCarnegie Mellon Press, Pittsburgh. (2024) $20.00 Maria Galina (b.

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Visual Art

The Artwork of Chris Hero 

Consistency is the hallmark of a well-developed body of work and this is precisely what we see from Chris Hero. While he is adept at many mediums, including watercolors, oils, and acrylics, he views the

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Fiction

Recall of Duty

http://matthewkraj.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/RECALL_OF_DUTY_INTERVIEW_V1-720.mov Robert Lee, SGT (US Army Reserve). Recalled to active duty for current emergency plus six months. Report TDS Fort Riley, Kan. by 1300 hours, 6 July 1950 for retraining and overseas deployment. Oh-dark-thirty, 6

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Poetry

Generational Scars

My grandmother                     hid in a hole in Nagoya. My grandfather                        was a soldier in China.

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Nonfiction

Defending the Tribe 

Palisades Fire in Los Angeles by CAL FIRE_Official, January 2025. Public Domain. The scale of destruction inflicted by the wildfires that ripped through Los Angeles last month is unprecedented. Sixteen hundred buildings incinerated. Nearly two

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Visual Art

The Art of Tieshka K. Smith

Kathryn Pannepacker and Tieshka Smith | Northeast Times We chat with Tieshka K. Smith about how community engagement informs her practice as a social documentarian. We also focus on photography she made as part of the Stand With Ukraine

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Reviews

Bertolt Brecht’s Collaborators

Artistic Collaboration, Exile, and Brecht: A New Intellectual History, 1900-1950by Katherine Hollander (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025) To say Bertolt Brecht had an eventful life would be an understatement. He fathered four children by three women; enjoyed a

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Nonfiction

Chasing Hale

Credit: Benjamin Busch “Hale? Who is Hale?” The bartender told Jacob that she hadn’t seen Hale, that besides, the description he’d given her matched hundreds of foreign men in the city. Then she said he

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Nonfiction

A Walk in Budapest

First stop: Medieval Jewish Prayer House—Középkori Zsidó Imaház American historians say Hungary’s political system is dangerous, but conservatives find inspiration in its Christian government. I expected dark shadows in Budapest storefronts, people yearning for freedom. Instead,

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