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“Angels Watch Over Fools and Lovers” / Edward Michael Supranowicz / In Parentheses Literary Magazine / FALL 2025 / Volume 10 / Issue 1 The October 2025 Edition of In Parentheses is now available on print and digital platforms! Click here to view the entire edition for free and compatible viewing at our MagCloud marketplace. You may choose to also purchase digital or print editions in various…

Josh Lipson is a poet, historian, and psychologist, based in New York. His work has been featured in venues including Homonym Journal, Burning House Press, Petrichor, KGB Bar Lit, and The SHARKPACK Annual.

Josh Lipson is a poet, historian, and psychologist, based in New York. His work has been featured in venues including Homonym Journal, Burning House Press, Petrichor, KGB Bar Lit, and The SHARKPACK Annual. His poem “Habana-Om” was nominated in 2019 for Sundress Publications’ “Best of the Net Anthology”. J. Lipson has work featured in the recent issue of In Parentheses Literary Magazine (Winter…

Joshua Sabatini was born in Hartford, Connecticut. In October 2002, he moved to San Francisco, California. He's currently on retreat in Katama, Massachusetts. His 2023 published writings include “Jack and the Trumpet” in Rock Salt Journal and “The Horsesh

Joshua Sabatini was born in Hartford, Connecticut. In October 2002, he moved to San Francisco, California. He’s currently on retreat in Katama, Massachusetts. His 2023 published writings include “Jack and the Trumpet” in Rock Salt Journal and “The Horseshoe Crab’s Supplication” in Gabby and Min’s Literary Review. In 2024, his poem “Quansoo” was published by Local Gems Press in the Massachusetts…

New Poetry Written and Performed by M. L. Johnson

Michael Lee Johnson is an internationally published poet in 44 countries, a song lyricist, has several published poetry books and anthologies, and has been nominated for 6 Pushcart Prize awards and 6 Best of the Net nominations. Over 289 YouTube poetry videos as of 04-2023. Works by M. L. Johnson have been previously featured by In Parentheses. Trail of Tears in the Snow Footprints in the…

"Consequence of Greed" and Other Poems by M. Farley

Myles Farley is a poet born, raised, and still living in Chicago. My Anger Proceeds You My foresight was correctAnxious voices floating around whispers of my futureDeception of hope I knew the branches would cut mebut I walked straight inmy eyes wide openvisible exit wounds on my cheeks The forests are being cut from their rootsI stare at the horrorhear the cries from the treesIve never been…

"Aloha Spirit" by M. Mangani

Marisa Mangani’s memoir, Mise en Place: Memoir of a Girl Chef, won the 2023 gold medal for Women’s Biographies by the Global Book Awards, and the 2023 gold for Memoir and Biography by Royal Palm Book Awards. Her essays and fiction have been published in Hippocampus, Literally Stories and others. M. Mangani’s work has been previously featured in the Fall Issue of In Parentheses (Volume 9, Issue…

"Actually Happy" and "Saint George" by C. Gerrior

Christopher Gerrior is an American poet. He is fueled by passion! Actually Happy country road comfortable ridebona fide progresswildflowerssummer sundiamond opportunitythere’s shadowshe acknowledges themtoday’s what mattersand tonightvibrant landlimitless colorshe found the lightthis wonderhis bathroom mirror screechedand threateneduntil it reachedan intolerable leveltricks do damagehe closed…

ALAN COHEN’S first publication as a poet was in the PTA newsletter when he was ten years old. He graduated from Farmingdale High School, where he was Poetry Editor of the magazine The Bard. He earned a BA in English from Vassar College and attended the University of California at Davis Medical School. He completed his internship in Boston and his residency in Hawaii. Alan then served as a Primary…

Some Inconvenient Poems (A Review by S. Ayres)

Susan Ayres is a poet, lawyer, and translator. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in a wide variety of journals. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and teaches at Texas A&M University Law School. Her chapbooks are Walk Like the Bird Flies (Finishing Line, 2023) and Red Cardinal, White Snow (Main Street Rag, forthcoming 2024).…

Poetry by B. Malakuti (Trans. by D. Haghighi)

Poet, theater critic and writer, Bita Malakuti born in Tehran, lived in Prague for two decades, and now lives in Washington DC. The mother of an eleven-year-old son, the author of 7 books and currently writing a novel with five female characters, in five periods of Iran’s history, all five women are named “Nina.” Danial Haghighi is an Iranian writer exiled in France. Summertime Daydreaming of…

"Go South" and Other Works by Y. Rivera

Y. Rivera has lived in NYC and London, leading her to value the mundane in the expanse. She is an avid reader, fixated on new journalism and epic fiction. Her familial ghosts are implicit in her work, exploring the differences in the weight we are given and which we take on. go south i remember the cool winters in the south bronxsalvaged only by their brightnesswhen the neighborhood basketball…

"I Ran" and Other Poems by Y. Khoshsirat

Yazdan Khoshsirat is a 24-year-old teacher hailing from Tehran, Iran. With a profound passion for artistic expression, Yazdan’s poetry has been published on the pages of Al Zahra University’s official English magazine on three occasions and once in the English publication “Poetry for mental health” and also forthcoming publications in the Indian “Wingless dreamer” and American “Muse-Pie Press”.…

"Flaco" by Anne Whitehouse

Anne Whitehouse is the author of poetry collections: The Surveyor’s Hand, Blessings and Curses, The Refrain, Meteor Shower, Outside from the Inside, and Steady, as well as the art chapbooks, Surrealist Muse (about Leonora Carrington), Escaping Lee Miller, Frida, and Being Ruth Asawa. Anne Whitehouse has been previously featured by In Parentheses. FLACOEurasian Eagle-Owl, March 15, 2010-February…

More Poetry Written and Performed by M. L. Johnson

Michael Lee Johnson is an internationally published poet in 44 countries, a song lyricist, has several published poetry books and anthologies, and has been nominated for 6 Pushcart Prize awards and 6 Best of the Net nominations. Over 289 YouTube poetry videos as of 04-2023. Works by M. L. Johnson have been previously featured by In Parentheses. Like Zen This versionis tacitly the best.I am in…

"The Myth of Flight" and Other Works by W. Heath

William Heath has published three poetry books: The Walking Man, Steel Valley Elegy, and Going Places (Alms for Oblivion is due in the fall); two chapbooks: Night Moves in Ohio and Leaving Seville (Inventing the Americas is due in the fall); three novels: The Children Bob Moses Led (winner of the Hackney Award), Devil Dancer, and Blacksnake’s Path; a work of history, William Wells and the…