Wild Roof Journal | Issue 1
March 2020
Cover image: "Untitled" by Michael Marschner
Gallery 2
Visual Art, Poetry, and Prose
Allen Koshewa
A writer and professional educator, Allen Koshewa has also pursued photography for many years. Recently, his photographs were on display in London as a result of an “Honourable Mention” status in the London Photo Festival contest. His work has also appeared on the cover of professional journals such as Language Arts and Talking Points. Some of his photography is showcased on the blog: https://koshewa.com.
Rebecca Pyle
Rebecca Pyle’s poems have made appearances in Requited Journal, Die Leere Mitte, National Poetry Review, and her poetry chapbook The Underwater American Songbook (Underwater New York, 2018). She is also an artist, with work in dozens of art/lit journals and has been featured on the covers of several, including JuxtaProse and Oxford Magazine. For a decade or two Rebecca Pyle has lived in Utah.
- Website: https://rebeccapyleartist.com
Lily Rose Kosmicki
Lily Rose Kosmicki is a person, but sometimes feels like an alien in this world. By trade she is a librarian at the public library and by night she is a collector of dreams. Her zine Dream Zine recently won a Broken Pencil Zine Award for Best Art Zine 2018. Her work appears in GASHER, glowworm, Meat for Tea, where is the river, Cathexis Northwest Press, The Fanzine, Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, and Punt Volat.
Ryota Matsumoto
Ryota Matsumoto is an artist, designer and urban planner. Born in Tokyo, he was raised in Hong Kong and Japan. He received Master of Architecture from University of Pennsylvania in 2007 after studying at Architectural Association in London and Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art in the early 90’s. His art and built work are featured in numerous publications and exhibitions internationally.
- Website: https://www.ryotamatsumoto.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ryota.matsumoto.718
- Instagram: @ryt.matsumoto
t.m. thomson
t.m. thomson’s work has most recently appeared in Grasslimb and io Literary Journal and will be featured in upcoming issues of Darkhouse Books, Whispering Prairie Review, and Redheaded Stepchild. Three of her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Awards: “Seahorse and Moon” in 2005, “I Walked Out in January” in 2016, and “Strum and Lull” in 2018. She has co-authored Frame and Mount the Sky, a chapbook of ekphrastic poetry (2017) and is author of Strum and Lull (2019) and The Profusion (2019). She has a writer’s page at https://www.facebook.com/TaunjaThomsonWriter/.
Rose Mary Boehm
A German-born UK national, Rose Mary Boehm lives and works in Lima, Peru. Photographer, painter, illustrator and author of two novels as well as three poetry collections, her work has been widely published in US poetry journals. For more of her photographic work, visit the website http://bilderboehm.blogspot.com.
Maria Berardi
Maria Berardi’s work has appeared in local and national magazines, as well as at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities in Arvada, CO, in collaboration with installation artist Bonnie Ferrill Roman. Her first collection, Cassandra Gifts, was published in 2013 by Turkey Buzzard Press, and she is currently at work on her second (a chapbook, or perhaps not, entitled Pagan). Educated at Hampshire College, the University of Colorado-Denver, Naropa University, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop, she lives in the Front Range foothills west of Denver at precisely 8,888 feet above sea level. Her process is one of listening for transmissions from the cosmic radio and trying to catch them on paper before they dissipate: the glimpse, the complicated knowledge.
Bradley Kaye
Bradley Kaye has a Ph.D. from Binghamton University. The author of several works of philosophy including: Critical Madness Theory, Boundless Open Sea, an annotated translation of the Tao te Ching, and has been published in journals such as Fast Capitalism, the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, The Agonist: Nietzsche Circle Journal, and Public Knowledge. Books in the hopper at this time include work centering around Marx and Vedic Thought, Biopolitics and Democracy, a series of brief works on Nietzsche, nihilism, ethics, and will to power that may turn into a book. He’s been working on several other creative-non-fiction pieces that will perhaps be published someday called Soft Screams in Exile. He’s been teaching the kids ‘how to be’ as his wife Tara calls it, at various places in the greater Buffalo area where they live with their two kids Ava and Tony.
Kip Knott
Kip Knott’s writing has recently appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, Barrow Street, and New Plains Review. His full-length collection of poetry—Tragedy, Ecstasy, Doom, and so on—is forthcoming from Kelsay Books. To access more of his work, visit his website at https://www.kipknott.com.
Lisa Friedlander
Lisa Friedlander is a psychotherapist and essayist. She is interested in the quirky connections between events, between people, between the unlike. Essays are often like quilts, each piece having a singular but connectable identity. Recent publications include “Now-ist Meditation on the Memory Couch” in The Forge, “Corpus Two: Ether Matter” in Shark Reef, and “Downsizing” in Pink Panther. Her blog site is https://webcamel.net/.
David Somerset
Dave Somerset lives in Salem, MA with his wonderful wife and a small disagreeable dog. He writes and performs poetry, stories, and music at local open mics and features. He is a member of the Salem Writers Group and the Tin Box Poets. Dave’s work has been published in the Merimac Mic Anthology, The Whisper and the Roar, Oddball Magazine, Ugly Writer, The Brave and the Reckless, 3rd Wednesday Magazine, Riza Press, and Lily Poetry Review. Dave has also published a chapbook: Among Poets Tonight.
Serge Lecomte
Serge Lecomte began his life as a writer, publishing numerous poetry collections and graduating to novels. His novels could be described as magical and somewhat surreal. Crossed realities usually yield amazing and sometimes shocking results. He has also written over a dozen comedic plays. The style and imagery of his writings are reflected in his paintings.
He is self-taught but has published his works in several art magazines (listed on his website). He works mainly in acrylics on watercolor paper but has recently begun working on canvas. The images are a blend of the natural world and imaginary creatures.
- Website: https://sergelecomte.weebly.com
