by Phil Hall We lived in the Zona Rosa. The posh university I worked at was also in the west of the city. Some of the students were spoiled. They remind me of rotten characters in the book by DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little. In the evening, once a week, I trained teachers at…

Designed by Carolina Servín CONGRATULATIONS TO ARS NOTORIA’S PARTICIPANTS IN THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM OF POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY On behalf of Ars Notoria: The Art of the Noteworthy, I extend my warmest congratulations to all the participants, organisers and editors behind this year’s International Colloquium of Poetry and Philosophy. It is a privilege to celebrate…

Patrick McManus. Photograph courtesy of the author Patrick McManus, survivor poet performer was once an architect in Denmark. He lives in Raynes Park. His career as a poet has spanned more than six decades, beginning with an early publication in the Brixton School of Building magazine in 1959. However, it was in the mid-1990s…

Lithograph designed by Sudeep Sen In the golden age of Dutch painting, a master like Vermeer or Gerard Dou would often withhold a single work. This was the pronkstuk, the showpiece. It was not commissioned by a patron, nor intended for the wall of a rich Dutch merchant. It remained in the artist’s studio, a…

Dad held the onion in his left hand. In his right, a small paring knife. And he cut. Photograph by Iqbal Farooz Instinct, inheritance and becoming a Masaalchi by Arun Kapil My father never learned how to chop an onion. At least, not in the way I would later be taught. There was no…

Study for Leda and the Swan (now lost), c. 1506–1508, Chatsworth House, England Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Sylvia Vetta is a British author, journalist, and community activist whose work explores the intersections of gender, class, and race. Raised working-class in Luton, she married her Indian-born husband Atam Vetta at a time of widespread hostility toward mixed marriages, an…

Mr Yip. Photograph David Yip by David Yip My new job as is, again, in the Lake District, in Coniston. I was interviewed by the owner for the Assistant Manager position and explained that I needed two set days off to be home for my dad. He agreed and explained that the current restaurant…

UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections Public Domain           B&B and the Schencks by Norman B. Schwartz When Al Capone was finally indicted by the federal government in 1931, it was not for his usual practices of prostitution, extortion, gambling, and bootlegging. The government could not gather enough evidence to…

Illustration Phil Hall Dustin Pickering is an autodidact, and a noteworthy figure in contemporary US literature and the arts. He is a poet, visual artist, publisher, interviewer and workshop leader. His poetry explores love, faith and cosmology. He also creates satirical cartoons that gently spoof religion and politics. His writings have appeared in Huffington Post, Los…

Photograph by Shubham Thakur on Pexels From the working collection, The Stories That Repeat Us A child to be ignored for collected poems (For Imtiaz Dharker: “It is too early for your Collected Poems”) there are a few a petrified child inheadmaster’s officechaddies ready to get wet frosted glass on his doora greatness of…