Editors, Charles Entrekin and Luke Wallin Published by Hip Pocket Press Managing Editor, Charles Entrekin All work reprinted by permission of authors SISYPHUS (cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down) is a magazine that focuses on contemporary issues surrounding art, culture, and language. SISYPHUS is committed [...]

Pakistani Girls’ School Ah, there goes the blackboard again. This time the wind of Cobras has smashed it to smithereens and torn the pencils from our hands. The paper we cling to flaps so loudly the teacher must shout the lesson. Throw acid in our eyes and we’ll learn Braille box our ears ‘til they [...]

For a few individuals, awakening is a sudden occurrence that lasts either a lifetime or for many years. With most of us, awakening is a gradual process, rewarded by the fruits that leaving a trance state offers us on a moment-to-moment basis. An example of such a reward is dreaming less of how great it [...]

I want to say at the outset that I’m not one of those nutcase skeptics who don’t believe in global warming. I believe it’s happening and it worries me. But I see no need for getting all worked up about limiting our carbon use as proposed by global warming alarmists. We can easily fix the [...]

Choices in Ecology Beyond the light of my desk lamp and computer screen, and the hum of my air conditioner, there exists a coastal hardwood swamp of great mystery. Though I live in the old settled East, not far from Providence and Boston, even closer to Fall River and New Bedford, my garden and lawn [...]