• Essay

    American… but…

    January 22, 2021 /

    This essay was written on November 15, 2016. It is Part One of a two-part essay series on identity. Part Two, “Italianizzata” is included in the January 2021 Issue of the Open Doors Review. Click here to read the Magazine.…

  • January 2021 Issue,  Poetry

    Palestrina

    January 22, 2021 /

    Featured in the January 2021 Issue of The Open Doors Review. View Magazine Here. Poetry by Lillia Parker An old woman pushes open the shutters leans out of the window Content painted on her face as she breathes in  the countryside…

  • January 2021 Issue,  Visual Art

    Suspended in Midair

    January 22, 2021 /

    Featured in the January 2021 Issue of The Open Doors Review. View Magazine Here. By Sezgi Uygur Medium: Acrylic paint, watercolor, ink on aluminium sheet metal  Author Bio: Sezgi Uygur is from Istanbul. After an Erasmus exchange in Urbino, Italy and…

  • January 2021 Issue,  Poetry

    Rise

    January 22, 2021 /

    Featured in the January 2021 Issue of The Open Doors Review. View Magazine Here. Poetry by Justin T Walsh I am tender in the morning With your name upon my lips My nakedness revealing only the lazy comfort of living in…

  • January 2021 Issue,  Visual Art

    Young Eagles

    January 22, 2021 /

    Featured in the January 2021 Issue of The Open Doors Review. View Magazine Here. By Justin T Walsh Medium: Digital Photograph. Amsterdam, September 19, 2020. 16in x 20in Author Bio: Justin T Walsh is an image-based studio artist whose primary investigation…

  • From the Editor

    Open Doors Manifesto

    October 2, 2020 /

    In popular culture, Italy is frequently seen as two things: a soap opera Mafiosi video game or a picture postcard tourist dreamland of the Dolce Vita.  Let’s add more stories to this picture. Let’s look under the surface. Let’s highlight the…