“The laws of a gentleman, like most, are at times meant to be broken and in varying degrees.”
-Craig Arthur von Schroeder
Original Columm by Craig Arthur von Schroeder of CMMP for Paradigm Magazine
Soccer has seventeen rules, or “laws;” one of them instructs that outfield players cannot use their hands. Nevertheless, the breaking of this rule in the 1982 World Cup by Diego Maradona won the game for his country, crushed the lives of many Englishmen and ...
“All of my cigarettes are soaked in gin except half of one. I break the stalk halfway loosing precious leaves in the urgency of it and the last few burn mid-air as my flame hits the handicapped nub.”
-Adria Leeper-Sullivan
Original Photographs by Christopher Velez for Paradigm Magazine
Essay by Adria Leeper-Sullivan
It’s one of those days when I wake up to the memory of my parents fighting.
(The smoke in the hallway reminds me of my high school girlfriend’s ...
“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
-John Adams
Editorial by C.A. Stephens for Paradigm Magazine & Original Artwork by Aniella Ernández
The green divide between the haves and have-nots in the United States grows wider by the day, putting the country at risk of becoming what Jefferson called a suicidal democracy. As the chasm expands, citizens on both sides are at odds. Those ...
Original Poem & Artwork by Paige Taggart for Paradigm Magazine
Paige Taggart is the author of three chapbooks: DIGITAL MACRAMÉ (Poor Claudia), Polaroid Parade (Greying Ghost Press), and The Ice Poems (DoubleCross Press). Additional publications and her jewelry can be found here: MacTaggart Jewelry, ad hoc she curates Bling That Sings, a site that promotes beauty and poetry.
I AIN’T GOT NO WINGS
For sure I can fly but I’m done doing it. Ain’t got no wings like ...
“Hurt Bullies, Not Yourself”
-ALT
Original Photographs by Ricardo Lozano for Paradigm Magazine
Essay by Adria Leeper-Sullivan
I first met her hiking in the Adirondacks, pink hair pressed under a bandana. Enthusiasm pierced through her with every ray of sun pulling through the canopy. When we finished five days on the trail our groups reconnected and headed toward campus. I never spoke to her much, but when I did she was passionate about the environment, and learning how to ...
Poem by Gus Laessig – Original Artwork by Karin Söderquist for Paradigm Magazine
Praying for Laughter
My mom has this
infectious laughter,
that brings me
to my knees.
While I was safe
in the next room
eating peanut butter
from the jar,
kneeling in front
of the T. V.
I overheard her
promising men
felatio for a line
or a couple of pills
Mom and him went up the stairs
bubbling with laughter
he came down and went straight out;
then she’d come stumbling after
Sometimes she didn’t
come right down though.
So I’d drag my footed ...
“This is the cycle of life farmers have created since they first started breeding the wildness out of chickens centuries ago. We’re just following it, trying to do right by a creature who may no longer have the pedigree to protect herself from an uncivilized alley cat. But there was a reason she kept going in that tree. It’s something that we may never understand, something that may have been bred out ...
“As time fades away and you depart from the normal, habit formed routine … as you encounter new things, sights, sounds, languages, cultures, people, new food, new temperatures, new insects, all of it pulls you through shades of perspective. The more we embody new aspects of perspective, the less that the worn and tired perspective of habit commands perception. It is through this process that one might learn to transcend the limitations, the ignorance, intolerance ...
“I didn’t know I was looking at history. When you witness the birth of a legend, of course you don’t know.”
-William Wilde
Editorial by William Wilde & Photograph by Michal Martychowiec
‘There Are Places I Remember…’
When I was old enough to drink legally – I’d been drinking illegally for three years, since I was 15 – I was in Liverpool. It was my first job. The only places in that great northern seaport where one could get ...
“Struggle always leads to innovation. Whenever there is a rough period in anyone’s life, they have to overcome some sort of obstacle in order to get to the next level.”
-Cameron Vance
Below is a detailed account of life on tour with Banned Books through personal journal entries, photographs, drawings and conversations: sporadic and lengthy just like life. By Theo Constantinou.
2/1/12
316 Bellmawr, NJ. Another conversation turned into reality. The night before heading on tour with ...
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