The New Engagement Literature & Art Journal
  • THE NEW
    ENGAGEMENT
    Issue No. 12, JULY 2017

The New Engagement is a Literature & Art Journal that publishes original short stories, novel excerpts, essays, drama, poetry, film, photography, illustrations, and paintings that promise personal insights, unique perspectives, and uncommon social observations.

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Literature

Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Essays

Tender Bottoms, a Collection

By Ryan Tracy

Domesticating the Queer Cat.

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Enter the Kingdom

By Kate Robinson

The apocalypse has never been delivered with such harrowing eloquence.

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Hamlets

By Betty Rosen

An inquiry into the enduring power of Shakespeare’s classic opens the castle gates to a battalion of existential musings.

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Cracked Looking Glass, a Collection

By Lois Roma-Deeley

As the vantage point shifts, the viewer is deconstructed.

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The Flames they Rise and Fall

By Nicole Holtzman

The memories threaten to cling and capture, but the rolling stone dodges all confinements.

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Letters to the Black Woman

By Tyrell Collins

A scholarly and thoughtful epistolary celebrating black female identity and inventorying the rousing literature it produces.

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The Gift, Chapter 8

By Mark Elzey

The speaker takes aim at pop psychology, the notion of inferiority complexes, and Chicago’s heinous “Ugly Laws.”

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Art

Film, Photography, Illustration, Painting

Red Square

By Brian Alessandro

Identity politics confounds and consumes.

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Mouthy Hipstering

By Brian Alessandro

Gentrification leaves even the colonists in an emotional lurch.

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Afrofuturism

By Brian Alessandro

The future of the species starts here.

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A Celebration on the Way by Dick Evans

A Celebration On The Way

By Dick Evans

A wasteland without waste.

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Desert Nightfall by Dick Evans

Desert Nightfall

By Dick Evans

In an arid climate, even the sky catches fire.

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Purple Cliffs with Red and Blue by Dick Evans

Purple Cliffs With Red And Blue

By Dick Evans

Under the imposing gaze of great giants.

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