Joanna Fuhrman is the author of five books of poetry, including The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press, 2015) and Pageant (Alice James Books, 2009). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Believer, Conduit, Fence, New American
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Rachel Ann Brickner is a writer and multimedia storyteller from Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming at The Kenyon Review, Joyland, The Los Angeles Review, Sequestrum, and PANK, among others. Her essay “Another Year Older and Deeper In
Stream of Consciousness, Not Scream
Joanna Fuhrman is the author of five books of poetry, including The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press, 2015) and Pageant (Alice James Books, 2009). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Believer, Conduit, Fence, New American
Featured Visual Artist Issue #18
Adam Reh began learning about and creating art at 8 years old. Since then, Adam has created thousands of paintings and drawings in watercolors, oils, pencil, and pen and ink. His subject matter has been described as an eclectic, vibrant
Featured Visual Artist Issue #17
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.” — Isadora Duncan Trina Maeby Mabborang is a Chicago-based artist, illustrator, curator, and founder of Trina Maeby Crafts. With her BFA from the University of Illinois in Chicago and years
Featured Visual Artist Issue #16
We can manipulate physical space by means of focusing the eye on varying highlights and shadows; this duality of forces – this play on negative space – is the drive behind my choice to integrate light into the art. When
Featured Visual Artist Issue #15
I like to contemplate the difference between the artist and the craftsman. Craftsmen are educated and can consistently produce a desired result. They use their rational mind to bring ideas into the physical world. An artist, on the other hand,
5 Stunts
Stunts sometimes called tricks, roughhouse beneath or within, like the thump of furnaces or blood. Stunts are essential, life without them a mere withered jerky. Stunts can be seen only in the acts they inhabit, often the deceptively plain and
5 Poems
AFTER EMILY WILCOX’S BEAST OF BURDEN It is very cold, there are strange stars near Arcturus, Voices are crying an unknown name in the sky -Archibald MacLeish On the appointed day the north skyCondemned us to a shared sun. We were
Featured Visual Artist Issue #14
-These are few selected works from the last year or so. These pieces started as an exploration of the size and scope of the natural world (specifically the Pacific Northwest) and the feeling of awe being submersed in them