Cover image: "Reliquary for the Green World: Maple" by E.A. Bagby
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Visual Art, Poetry, and Prose
Lance Newsom
Chasing light and shadow, in the spaces in which they dance. Life is big, life is small . . . and everything in between. Life is a celebration, and also steeped in pain and struggle. Lance Newsom is passionate about capturing the beauty and uniqueness of life in his images. When he’s not traveling to discover life outside of his daily experience, he’s using his camera to create his own unique, abstract and emotional landscapes. His images are both familiar and inviting while, simultaneously, surreal and eerie; they are an attempt to capture the essence of what it means to be alive, and aware.
- Instagram: @lpnewsomphotography
M.S. Rooney
M.S. Rooney lives in Sonoma, California with poet Dan Noreen. Her work appears in journals, including Bluestem, Illuminations, Leaping Clear and The OffBeat, and anthologies, including American Society: What Poets See (FutureCycle Press), edited by David Chorlton and Robert S. King, and Ice Cream Poems (World Enough Writers), edited by Patricia Fargnoli. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Samantha Cramer
Samantha Cramer has been in love with poetry since she stole her mother’s old college textbook of English poetry from the bookshelf at age 10. Poetry speaks to her of the archaeology of the psyche, the strata of loneliness and desire inside all of us, and the equally strong ache to be fully seen. Samantha is a Northern California native and lives on the foggy redwood coast of Santa Cruz, while working in education in Silicon Valley.
Robert Miltner
Robert Miltner’s nonfiction has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Diagram, Del Sol Review, Great Lakes Review, Pithead Chapel, Kestrel, and Eastern Iowa Review, and he has been nominated for a Best of the Net and a Pushcart prize in nonfiction. His collection of short fiction is And Your Bird Can Sing (Bottom Dog Press), and his books of prose poetry are Hotel Utopia (New Rivers Press) and Orpheus & Echo (Etruscan Press, forthcoming in 2020). Miltner is professor emeritus at Kent State University Stark and the NEOMFA. He edits The Raymond Carver Review.
Emerson Little
Emerson Little is pursuing a degree in Digital Art and Media Production at Whittier College. He works as a student photographer for the Whittier College Office of Communications, photos editor for the Quaker Campus and video columnist for the Fullerton Observer. His photos of the southwest have appeared in the Sagebrush Review, Greenleaf Review, saltfront, and Burningwood Literary Journal. Emerson’s passion for landscape photography has led him to specialize in the strange and the unusual.
Divyasri Krishnan
Divyasri Krishnan is an avid reader and writer from Boston, Massachusetts who learned to brave the bitter New England winters with a pen and paper. Her work can be found in the AB Window Seat and her poetry book paper crowns and paper queens, which has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Further work is forthcoming in Scribere and Sunday Mornings at the River and can be found informally published on her Instagram @spilledhoney.
Yvonne Morris
Yvonne Morris is the author of Mother was a Sweater Girl (The Heartland Review Press, 2016). Her poetry has appeared most recently in The Galway Review, and she has a flash fiction piece upcoming in The Sabr Literary Review. She was a featured poet on the website Friday Poems, and she was a Poet of the Week in December 2019 on the Poetry Super Highway site.
Peter Stein
Peter Stein is a poet and photographer whose poems have appeared in The Talking Stick, Martin Lake Journal, Nice Cage, The Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts Chapbook, and The Road By Heart: Poems of Fatherhood anthology. His first collection of poems AUTO-BIO was published in 2011 by Amber Skye Publishing. Peter is the president of the League of Minnesota Poets. He has performed as a part of many reading series around the Twin Cities and a frequent reader at the Poets & Pints open mic. His photography has appeared in the Saint Paul Almanac and won the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts Member show in 2018. His debut gallery show was December of 2019 for the Err Arts show. He resides in Minneapolis by Lake Nokomis, where he takes frequent strolls to capture the cosmic landscape of winter.
Andrew Sunshine
Andrew Sunshine is the author of Thyrsus and 99 (Linear Arts) and Andra moi (Ambitus Books). His poems have appeared in Literal Latte, Salonika, and Snake Nation, among other journals. He is co-editor (with Donna Jo Napoli) of Tongue’s Palette: Poetry by Linguists and editor of The Alembic Space: Writings on Poetics and Translation by Joseph Malone (Atlantis-Centaur, 2004 and 2006 respectively). He lives in New York City with his wife and sons.
Lexi Kennell
Lexi Kennell is a Pittsburgh-based writer who writes about dysfunctional families, chance encounters that can alter the rest of one’s life, the queer body, and mental illness. Her work has been featured in Rising Phoenix Press, The Esthetic Apostle, and –Ambi Literary Magazine. Kennell earned her BFA in English literature and fiction writing at the University of Pittsburgh. When she isn’t writing, she can be found in a pottery class or howling at the moon in a bath robe. Her website is Lexikennell.art.
Finn Janning
Finn Janning is a Danish novelist and philosopher. He has studied philosophy, literature and business administration at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), and at Duke University. He earned his PhD in philosophy from CBS. His work has been featured in Epiphany, Under the Gum Tree, South 85 Journal, and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, among other publications. His most recent publication is the book, A Philosophy of Mindfulness – A Journey with Deleuze. He lives in Barcelona, Spain with his wife and their three children.
- Website: https://finnjanning.com
- Twitter: @finn_janning
John Sexton
Photographer John Sexton aims to challenge the misconception that a photo needs a pretty location to be beautiful in itself. He believes above all, a photographer needs curiosity, creativity, and a generosity of spirit.
Kay L. Cook
Kay L. Cook was born and raised in Michigan and is now a long time New Yorker. Coming from a multiracial, gay family, she focuses much of her writing on miscommunications due to racial, cultural and mental health differences, and on the endless hope for human evolution in connection with nature. She holds a BA in Secondary Education, an M.Ed in Special Education, and certification as a school psychologist. Recent publication of her work can be found in the Summer 2019 issue of Rise Up Review and in the October 2019 issue of The Write Launch.
Philip Kienholz
Philip Kienholz is a Buddhist lay monk, permaculture edible forest gardener, and architect retired from licensed professional practice in Manitoba and The Northwest Territories. He has published a book, Display: Poems (2016), and two chapbooks: The Third Rib Knife (1966) and Born to Rant Coerced to Smile (2017). Recent periodical poetry is at The Write Launch, Genre: Urban Arts, Unpsychology Magazine, The Halcyone Literary Review, Burningword Literary Journal, Whirlwind, and forthcoming at Free State Review.
Scrap Wrenn
Ms. Wrenn’s participation in artists’ projects and group exhibitions for nearly 2 decades has included collaborations, commissions, and shows throughout the New York City area, and in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Texas, and Italy – receiving the Mount Royal School of Art Graduate Fellowship Award at MICA (2006-2008) for her MFA after attending New York University in the Steinhardt School University Scholars Program (Studio Art, 1998-2002).
