“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 ...

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

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 ...

“And then a tide of blood fell back in me/after that I walked with open ears/I found that the trees had voices, and/they sang like forgotten, sunless seas.” ...

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 ...

Ronald Zack is a poet and an attorney (in that order) living and working in Tucson, Arizona. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Main Street Rag, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Poetry ...