As Garett Jones observes in The Culture Transplant, “there’s at least some evidence that, based on patterns around the world, ...

“I scatter the sandpipers who/run from me/but not/the tides.” for them to hold me still?. Julian Kanagy is a Chicago-based ...

What shines forth in Yard Show is how Harrington goes beyond mere fondness for this common spectacle among a class of African ...

The bright new ideas on the Left are inconsistent with our Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment traditions and do not even count ...

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 ...

“And as she lay on her death bed, as she must have felt a cancerous tumor slowly taking her life, she would also have looked around her and seen the stern and damaged but also joyous legacy she would ...

Max Roland Ekstrom holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in such ...

Erich J. Prince is the editor-in-chief at Merion West. With a background in journalism and media criticism, he has contributed to newspapers such as The Philadelphia Inquirer and The News & Observer, ...