On a related note, I sometimes wonder about all the pieces passed on or projects never brought to completion because one does ...

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

“A devouring sense of possession by Finola for Dary stretched normalcy and reason. Finola had joined the majority of Ballyutogue mothers who had long lost any physical and esoteric sensations of ...

Anyone can read a poem. Anyone can write a poem. Quite a few people can write a pretty decent poem with a little effort. And ...

“The author of this essay is the proud owner of 25 books, poetry collections, and short story anthologies written by the man widely recognized as the godfather of the literary movement known as ‘dirty ...

“Although [Zoltan] Istvan’s general pessimism is understandable, the Senescence Inference takes the pessimism too far for a number of reasons.” More to the point, while the Senescence Inference is an ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Merion West contributing writer and editor respectively make the case for each candidate for President of the United States. Editor’s note: Given the endless discussion about the upcoming ...

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 ...