Volume 5, Issue 2

vol 5, i.2

"Another fall, another turned page..." ~ Wallace Stegner

Fall Equinox, fall/winter 2024 – vol 5, i.2

Turning pages, turning leaves, turning time. I honestly cannot believe another season has begun its transition. The moments I spend with the written word and art between these pages are always some of my most treasured encounters. Reading and curating the innermost workings of our contributors, I always come to the same conclusion: We are real, we are raw, and our words matter. Ink In Thirds prides itself on the expansive reach of humanity’s voice. A voice with common themes, common interests, and common concerns. Our locale and beliefs may vary, but our humanness undoubtedly connects each of us. It is the true depths of that very humanness that spans all time and all space to share our stories and art about what we think and feel while exploring this realm.

Seasons come and seasons go, but our creative offerings will live on within these pages. This issue features 74 beautiful souls spanning this planet we call Earth, sharing stories, photography, art, and the utmost expressions of our shared human condition. Once again, I extend a heartfelt thank you to all who have contributed and continue championing this literary adventure. We could not do this without the support and readership of our fantastic community.

We usher in this fall with a gentle explosion of exposition and emotion as found on each turning page.

Love and INK,

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"Serenity" cover photo by Dee

Featured Contributors (vol 5, i.2)

Featured Prose Writer vol 5 i.2

Paul Allatson

“My Head”

I am standing there, peering through steam and tarnish, when I discover hair. I shave it off. I see skin, reach for the knife, and scrape it away. I boil what is left until the meat lifts from the bone. A soak in bleach produces an object of startling cleanliness.

My discovery, now preserved, deserves some praise, so I take it to my father. “What’s that, a horse?” he asks. My laughter makes my head tremble in my palm.

So I take it to my mother. “What’s that, a bird?” she asks. My head shakes itself in my hand.

Baffled, I take my head into the streets. The crowds ignore it. I am about to take my head to the Museum of Natural History when a passing elbow knocks it to the ground, and a passing foot crushes it into shards.

A suited man stops to ask: “What are those beautiful fragments on the pavement?”

“They are,” I say, “the memories I no longer collect.”

Artist’s Statement

My poetry and prose focus on those small, ostensibly mundane incidents that merit further speculation and manipulation. My work is personal and draws on surrealism and dreamscapes, while talking back to other poets. Those I enjoy enacting dialogues with include Nina Cassian, Rainer Maria Rilke and Roberto Juarroz. There go my hands, severed at the wrist, approaching the blank page.

Bio

Paul Allatson is a cultural critic, writer and academic editor based in Sydney, on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. His poetry and short stories have appeared in anthologies and literary outlets in Australia, the UK, and the USA. The above piece comes from a current project entitled “Little Intimacies.”

Featured Poet vol 5 i.2

Ivan Niccolai

“The Marionette”

It’s not hard to understand. I am not a real person. I once met a real person, his name was Wilson Allen. His bio fit into six perfect sentences. We spoke the same language but I’m not sure we meant the same things. I don’t know what an authentic identity is. It’s construction and mimesis and neuroplasticity and adaptation all the way down. My accent changes throughout the day, and I don’t play well with the other children even though I’ve tried. It’s very easy and very simple to light a fire with a mug of petrol but you’ll scare the dinner guests. I have an eidetic memory for where or from whom I picked up a gesture, a turn of phrase, a behaviour, an interest, a desire, an affectation, an aesthetic, but there’s always something else I’m forgetting. Shouldn’t this be muscle memory by now? There’s a plump ginger cat in the neighbourhood who doesn’t belong to anyone, he couch surfs for weeks at a time, and the con works because no one knows how to demand where he’s from or where he belongs. We all think he’s searching for the perfect sofa. The sin isn’t in the search, it’s in the finding and then moving on. Stories aren’t supposed to end that way, that’s why they cut them short. I am a marionette draped in other people’s skin, and the patchwork quilt keeps slipping off the bed. I am a marionette that wanted to become a real person, but that cat keeps clawing at my cardigan.

Artist’s Statement

A theme of my work is the confusion of being in the world, the ongoing imperfect synthesis between short-term memory, such as the sense memories of recent experiential situations, and the more submersed long-term memories, which dictate those almost instinctive reactions to interpersonal situations.

Bio

Ivan Niccolai is an emerging writer. Ivan was raised by swinging, globetrotting Christian hippy parents across twenty countries and enjoyed the pleasures and instability of that lifestyle. He learned on his own how to drop out of grade school and behave appropriately in an office job. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, with two silly cats and a wise partner.

Featured Artist vol 5 i.2

Audrey Towns

“One Hundred Years”

Found Poetry is from Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude cut directly from a copy of the book and placed on a cut and painted piece of wood.

Artist’s Statement

I’m interested in art that explores environmental, social, and political concerns. I’m drawn to the spaces between—deconstructing binaries like liberal/conservative, human/nonhuman, and culture/nature. My interest in found poetry reflects a respect for these in-between spaces, reshaping past words into present-day reflections and reminding us that art isn’t created in a vacuum; past artists inspire new voices.

Bio

Audrey Towns, a literature and composition instructor in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas, dismantles the nature/culture binary in her prose and verse. She has published, or is forthcoming, in Driftwood Press Anthology, Spellbinder Quarterly Literary and Arts Magazine, Black Fox Literary Magazine, The Amphibian Literary and Arts Journal, and Willawaw Journal, among others.

prose contributors vol 5 i.2

“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” ~Virginia Woolf

Prose - vol 5, i.2

Includes 17 new and established prose contributors from around the globe. Take a look at our talented contributors.

Paul Allatson

"My Head"

Paul Allatson is a cultural critic, writer, and academic editor based in Sydney, on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. His poetry and short stories have appeared in anthologies and literary outlets in Australia, the UK, and the USA. The above piece comes from a current project entitled “Little Intimacies.”

Emma Allmann

"Burnt Lemon"

Emma Allmann studied creative writing at UW-Madison and is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa. She has pieces published with Ellipsis and Ink In Thirds, shortlisted with Smokelong, a forthcoming piece in LandLocked, and has had a play produced for the Marcia Légère Student Play Festival at UW-Madison.

Lynn Bey

"Long Gone"

Lynn Bey has had short stories and flash fiction published in O:JA&L, Club Plum, The Literarian (nominated for a Pushcart award), Nixes Mate Review, New World Writing, The Binnacle (nominated for a Pushcart award and joint winner of the Eleventh Annual Ultra-Short Competition), Digital Americana, Scribble Magazine, The Brooklyner, and other magazines.

Andy Bodinger

"350 Hz" (100 word story)

Andy Bodinger is a fiction writer, essayist, and PhD student at Ohio University. He earned his MFA from Oklahoma State University where he was an associate editor at The Cimarron Review. He is formerly an ESL teacher, having worked in The Czech Republic and China. His essays and stories have appeared in Lunch Ticket, South Dakota Review, and Bodega.

Kelli Short Borges

"All Things White"

Kelli Short Borges writes from her home in Phoenix, Arizona, where her family has lived for six generations. Her stories have won contests and been nominated for multiple awards. Recently, Kelli’s work was chosen for Best Microfiction 2024. She is currently working on her first novel.

Nicole Brogdon

"Trauma Suitcase" (100 word story)

Nicole Brogdon is an Austin, TX trauma therapist interested in strugglers and stories, with fiction in Vestal Review, Cleaver, Flash Frontier, Bending Genres, Bright Flash, SoFloPoJo, Cafe Irreal, 101Words, Centifictionist, etc. Best Microfiction 2024, and Smokelong Microfiction Finalist.

C.W. Bryan

"Isabella"

C.W. Bryan is the author of two collections of poetry. A chapbook titled Celine: An Elegy, published with Bottlecap Press, and a full-length collection, No Bird Lives in my Heart, published with In Case of Emergency Press. He writes with Sam Kilkenny at poetryispretentious.com. His work can be found in The Cincinnati Review, Beaver Magazine, Door is a Jar Magazine, Eunoia Review, and elsewhere.

David Daniel

"Tidewater Siren"

David is a Virginia-based writer with current and forthcoming fiction in Severance Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, and As Surely As the Sun.

Bridget Hayes

"Just Play A Song"

Bridget Hayes lives in Northern California. She is a tech librarian who helps people overcome their fear of technology. When she is not reading or writing, she is likely outside. She lives with her wife and two orange cats.

E.P. Lande

"You Made My Day"

Born in Montreal, E.P. Lande has lived in France and now, with his partner, in Vermont. Previously, he taught at l’Université d’Ottawa as a Vice-Dean and owned country inns and restaurants. Since submitting less than two years ago, more than 40 of his stories have been accepted by publications in countries on five continents.

Lance Manion

"The Ball"

Lance Manion is the author of twelve collections of flash fiction, the most recent of which, The Forest of Stone, was published in January. His stories have appeared in 50+ publications and have been included in over a dozen anthologies. He has been posting daily stories on his website since 2012.

Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch

"Stolen Colours"

Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch (UK) lives in Zürich, Switzerland. Her work appears in JMWW, Fractured Lit, Ilanot Review, Litro, Flash Frontier, Bright Flash Literary Review, and others. She is a Fractured Lit Flash Open Contest Finalist, was shortlisted for the National Flash Fiction Day 2023 Micro-Fiction Competition, and received an Honourable Mention in the 2023 Scribes Prize.

Sahil Mehta

"The Ice Cream Cone"

Sahil Mehta was born and raised in India. He currently lives in Boston, MA, where he works in the hospitality industry. He has over two decades of experience in educational publishing, but his foray into fiction is much more recent. His short fiction has appeared in Foglifter Journal, Roadrunner Review, and South 85 Journal.

Firdaus Parvez

"Somewhere"

Firdaus Parvez lives in Aligarh, a town close to New Delhi, India. She writes short stories, flash fiction, and poems about love and loss, family and relationships, stumbling across them in folds of ordinary lives. Currently, she’s the associate editor of haikuKATHA, a monthly online journal.

Bea Potts

"Fall Down, Get Up Again"

Bea Potts is a Japanese-American autistic non-binary trans woman who studied anthropology long ago. She spends her days working a 9-5, caring for a twenty-something red-eared slider, and petting her aunt’s dog, Daisy. She sends her love to the reader and whispers that it’ll get better.

Scott Ragland

"Like Always"

Scott Ragland has an MFA in Creative Writing (fiction) from UNC Greensboro. His stories have appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal, NANO Fiction, Ambit, The Common (online), Fiction International, Brilliant Flash Fiction, and The MacGuffin, among others. He lives in Carrboro, N.C., with his wife Ann, two dogs, and a cat.

Beth Sherman

"The View from Here"

Beth Sherman’s writing has been published in more than 90 literary journals, including 100 Word Story, Fictive Dream, and Bending Genres Journal. Her work will be featured in The Best Microfictions 2024. She’s also a Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, and multiple Best of the Net nominee.

poetry contributors vol 5 i.2

“Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you’ve got to burn away all the peripherals.” ~Sylvia Plath

Poetry - vol 5, i.2

Includes 41 new and established poetry contributors from around the world. Take a look at our talented contributors.

Glen Armstrong

"TV"

Glen Armstrong (he/him) holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters. His poems have appeared in Conduit, Poetry Northwest, and Another Chicago Magazine.

David Blake

"Searching for Results"

"Somewhere over West Texas"

Three Line Poetry

David Blake is a musician and poet from San Bernardino, CA. His poetry has been featured in multiple indie prints over the last couple years. He is currently working on his MFA in Creative Writing at MSMU in Los Angeles.

Audra Burwell

"Death Is the Scent of Soil"

Audra Burwell is a creative writing major at California State University Fresno, pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree with a specialization in poetry. Entropia is her first full-length published work, a dystopian fantasy multimedia collaboration featuring a fashion line designed by Fastened By Lyn and photography provided by Raven & Crow. Audra is a member of Sigma.

Cameron Carvalho

"Cascade"

Cameron Carvalho is a writer from Massachusetts. His work has been recognized by The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. His poetry is forthcoming in the Eunoia Review.

Nate Castellitto

"I, Perennial"

Nate Castellitto is a poet in Pennsylvania whose work has appeared in wildness, The Watershed Journal, Sojourners, and elsewhere.

Henry Crawford

"DALL-E Imaging the Crucifixion on a Phone "

Henry Crawford is the author of two collections of poetry, American Software (CW Books, 2017), and Binary Planet (The Word Works, 2020). His poem, “The Fruits of Famine,” won first prize in the 2019 World Food Poetry Competition. He is a co-director of the Café Muse literary salon.

Andrea Damic

Haiku

Andrea Damic is an artist and writer living in Sydney, Australia. She believes there’s something cathartic about seeing your words and art out in the world. Her words can be found in Bending Genres, Ghost Parachute, JMWW, Mad Swirl, Roi Faineant Press, the other side of hope, and elsewhere. She spends many an hour fiddling around with her website.

Steve Denehan

"Indian Summer"

Steve Denehan lives with his wife, Eimear, and daughter Robin in Kildare, Ireland. He is the author of two chapbooks and four poetry collections. Winner of the Anthony Cronin Poetry Award and twice winner of Irish Times’ New Irish Writing, his numerous publication credits include Poetry Ireland Review and Westerly.

Bart Edelman

"Thud"

Bart Edelman’s poetry collections include Crossing the Hackensack, Under Damaris’ Dress, The Alphabet of Love, The Gentle Man, The Last Mojito, The Geographer’s Wife, Whistling to Trick the Wind, and This Body Is Never at Rest: New and Selected Poems 1993 – 2023. He’s taught in the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. Bart lives in Pasadena, CA.

Jason Fisk

"The Moon"

Jason Fisk lives and writes in the suburbs of Chicago. He has worked in a psychiatric unit, labored in a cabinet factory, and mixed cement for a bricklayer. He was born in Ohio, raised in Minnesota, and has spent the last few decades in the Chicago area.

Neil Flory

"Narcissists Everywhere"

Neil Flory is the author of mudtrombones knotted in the spill (Arteidolia Press, 2023). His poetry has appeared in various journals such as swifts & slows and Sleet. Also a composer and pianist, Flory lives among the wooded hills of Western New York State with his wife, published poet and fiction writer Elaine Flory, and their three hyperactive cats.

Rocko Foltz

"Women & Improvisation & Story"

Rocko Foltz is a poet from Cleveland, OH. Rocko holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa University and is currently pursuing a PhD in English Literature at the University of Arizona. Rocko’s poetry has been published in J Journal, Sinister Wisdom, Dreampop Journal, and elsewhere.

Christian Garduno

"Lombard"

"McAllister Street"

Christian Garduno’s work can be read in over 100 literary magazines. He is the recipient of the 2019 national Willie Morris Award for Southern Poetry. He lives and writes along the South Texas coast with his wonderful wife Nahemie and young son Dylan.

Ewen Glass

"By Shrub Hill"

"Winter Solstice"

Ewen is a Northern Irish poet who lives in England with two dogs, a tortoise, and lots of self-doubt; on a given day, any or all of these can be snapping at his heels. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in HAD, Bridge Eight, Poetry Scotland, Gordon Square Review, and elsewhere.

John Grey

"First Love Redux"

"To Fall Asleep"

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly, and Lost Pilots. Latest books, Between Two Fires, Covert, and Memory Outside The Head, are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Seventh Quarry, La Presa, and Doubly Mad.

Noll Griffin

"Beginner’s Guide"

Noll Griffin is a visual artist, writer, and musician based in Berlin, Germany. His poetry has appeared in The Purposeful Mayonnaise, The Wild Word, and Reap Thrill, among others. His first chapbook, titled Tourist Info, is available through Alien Buddha Press.

Maryam Hedayat

"confessions of a tour guide"

Maryam Hedayat is a 16-year-old writer currently residing in the UK. She enjoys observing the quiet moments in her life and, of course, writing. She has been previously published in Matchbook Press, Kaleidos Zine, Rewrite the Stars, as well as Poetry4Progress and Auvert Magazine.

Ken Hines

"He Who Learns"

Sometime poet. One-time ad agency writer and college English teacher. Full-time husband, dad, grandpa, friend. Poems in Rust & Moth, Burningword Literary Journal, Dunes Review, and others. Essays in Philosophy Now and Barrelhouse. Recent Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee.

Ayòdéjì Israel

"Poor Us, Poor Nation"

Ayòdéjì Israel, a poet, writer, and editor, is a Pushcart Prize nominee. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Channel Magazine, Eunoia Review, Counterclock, Ake Review, Defunct Magazine, OneArtPoetry, Livina Press, The Bitchin Kitsch & elsewhere.

Austin Allen James

"Behind Yesterday"

Austin Allen James is a Visiting Professor at Texas Southern University in Houston, TX. He has taught at TSU since the Fall of 2012. In 2016, Austin and colleagues formed a committee to create a “Professional Writing” concentration, which includes five creative writing classes. Austin is also a visual artist, sculptor, and furniture designer.

Chris Litsey

"Talk Too Much"

Chris Litsey is a teacher, aspiring poet, and former editor of Indiana University Purdue University Columbus’s literary magazine, Talking Leaves. He is published there and in Discretionary Love. He is also a father and a lover of reading, writing, getting tattooed, and exploring museums. He lives in Muncie, Indiana, where he teaches and writes.

James Maloney

"Untitled (Black on Grey) 1969"

James Maloney lives and works in the West End of Washington DC. He writes essays, short stories, and poems, often considering the psyche in relation to cultural or natural tensions. His recent work appears in JMWW, Verse-Virtual, and Sisyphus Magazine, among other publications.

Joan Mazza

"How the Dead Speak"

Joan Mazza worked as a microbiologist and psychotherapist, and taught workshops on understanding dreams and nightmares. She is the author of six self-help psychology books, including Dreaming Your Real Self (Penguin/Putnam). Her poetry has appeared in The Comstock Review, Prairie Schooner, Atlanta Review, Slant, Poet Lore, and The Nation. She lives in rural central Virginia.

Sara McClayton

"Mountain Clock"

Sara McClayton is an educator and writer living in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband and dog. In addition to writing, she enjoys exploring the outdoors, teaching and practicing yoga, and reading.

Mahdi Meshkatee

"Evening Rain"

Mahdi Meshkatee is a UK-born, Iranian poet, author, and artist. His translation of the children’s novel Witch Wars by Sibéal Pounder has been published by Golazin Publication Company. His work has been published in a number of magazines, including October Hill Magazine, Nude Bruce Review, and Men Matters Online Journal. His writings are a continuity of attempts at decoding himself.

Ivan Niccolai

"The Marionette"

Timothy Norton

"Lost Souls"

Tim Norton has always been a creative person, and his creative writing was encouraged by teachers as he went through elementary and secondary school. In college he found the poetic form to be a natural way to express himself and the perceptions he felt he needed to say.

Jake Onyett

"Our Dumb Bones"

"Trap Door Tumble"

Jake Onyett is a U.S. Navy veteran who was born in Canada, raised in the United States, and currently lives in Italy. He graduated from Niagara University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Bologna. His poetry appears in In Parentheses, Litbreak Magazine, Mediterranean Poetry, Stone Poetry Quarterly, and Death Lifespan Vol. 12 (Pure Slush).

Katherine Page

"Mad Libs for Mandated Reporters"

"No Child Left Behind"

Katherine Page is an elementary school teacher and writer living in Chicago. She has poems published in Open Minds Quarterly, Awakened Voices Magazine, Beyond Words Quarterly, Evocations Review, Bluestem Magazine, Passengers Journal, Rough Cut, and Green Linden Press. She is a graduate of the 2022-2023 Lighthouse Writers Workshop Poetry Collective in Denver, CO.

Firdaus Parvez

2 Three Line Poems

Shaurya Pathania

"A Well Cooked Meal"

Shaurya Pathania holds a Masters Degree in English Literature from University of Delhi, India. He has a keen interest in poetry, sleep, and food. Few of his works have appeared or are forthcoming in JAKE, Rising Action Review, Synchronized Chaos, Daily Drunk Mag, and elsewhere. He can be talked to on Twitter.

Fabrice Poussin

"Asleep"

Poussin is a professor of French and World Literature. His work in poetry and photography has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and hundreds of other publications worldwide. Most recently, his collections In Absentia, and If I Had a Gun, Half Past Life were published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 by Silver Bow Publishing.

Bradley Samore

"Breakup"

Bradley Samore has worked as an editor, writing consultant, English teacher, creative writing teacher, basketball coach, and family support facilitator. His writing has appeared in The Florida Review, Carve, The Dewdrop, and other publications. He is a winner of the Creative Writing Ink Poetry Prize.

Agniv Sarkar

"Shame"

Agniv Sarkar is a student of mathematics and philosophy, leaving high school early to further these pursuits. He found poetry through philosophy and found the intersection of the two able to create the most beautiful artwork.

Gerard Sarnat

Haiku

Gerard Sarnat’s won prizes, nominated for Pushcarts and Best of Net Awards, authored four collections. Publications include Oberlin, Brown, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, Wesleyan, Hopkins, Gargoyle, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Brooklyn Review, L.A. Review, San Francisco Magazine, New York Times. A Harvard-Stanford physician, professor, CEO who’s built homeless clinics; Gerry serves on Climate Action’s board, and has nine grand/kids.

Donald Sellitti

"Pre-Apocalypse"

Donald Sellitti was a scientist/educator at a Federal medical school before turning to poetry following his retirement. His publications in medical journals such as Cancer Research and Oncology Letters have been succeeded by publications in a number of more amusingly titled journals, including The Alchemy Spoon, Door is A Jar, Gyroscope Review, and Rat’s Ass Review.

Allen Seward

"because the dead have not come back to life"

Allen Seward is a poet from the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. His work has appeared in Scapegoat Review, Spare Parts Lit, Impspired, and Pandemonium Journal, among others. He currently resides in WV with his partner and four cats.

Mark Strohschein

"Anticipation"

"Seasons"

Mark Strohschein is a Washington state poet who resides on Whidbey Island. His poems have appeared in Flint Hills Review, Bryant Literary Review, Main Street Rag, Barren Magazine, Lips Poetry Magazine, The Milk House, The Big Windows Review, and in anthologies. Forthcoming work will appear in The Mantelpiece Literary Magazine and Washington Square Review.

Tom Stuckey

"Shadow Play"

Tom writes Poems and is from the UK.

Jeffery Allen Tobin

"Routine Revelations"

Jeffery Allen Tobin is a political scientist and researcher based in South Florida. His extensive body of work primarily explores U.S. foreign policy, democracy, national security, and migration. He has been writing poetry and prose for more than 30 years. He has forthcoming publications in Passionfruit Review, Loud Coffee Press, Poetry Pacific, and Rundelania.

William Waters

"I Want To Call It Sex"

William Waters is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston Downtown. Along with Sonja Foss, he is coauthor of Destination Dissertation: A Traveler’s Guide to a Done Dissertation.

photographers vol 5 i.2

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” ~Alfred Stieglitz

Photography - vol 5, i.2

Includes 8 new and established photographers from around the globe. Take a look at our talented contributors.

Michael Anthony

"Fern"

"Iced No. 3"

"Pisces"

"Shattered"

"Suspension"

Michael Anthony is a New Jersey based writer and artist. He has published fiction, poetry, illustrations, and photographs in literary journals and commercial magazines. Most recently, these include Raw Lit, Cape Magazine, Auvert Magazine, Remington Review, Flyover Country, On The High Literary Journal, West Michigan Review, Drunk Monkeys, and Bodega Magazine.

Andrea Damic

"eyes into the world"

"Foraging"

Andrea Damic is an amateur photographer who loves turning ordinary into something unexpected, unique. Her photographs can be found in Fusion Art and Light, Space & Time Online Art Exhibitions, and various online and print magazines. She’s especially proud of having been published on the covers of Door Is A Jar, Rat’s Ass Review and Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag.

Karen Pierce Gonzalez

"Leaf Shadow"

Karen Pierce Gonzalez’s visual artistry focuses primarily on elements found in nature. To date, 50+ of her works, including six cover images, have been published in a range of literary journals/magazines, including The Chestnut Review. A 2022 National Arts Program (USA) feature artist, her 3D pieces have been shown in several Pacific West Coast galleries.

Candace Kubinec

"Entwined"

"Foggy Morning"

"Rusted Portal"

"String of Pearls"

Candace is a photographer and poet from western Pennsylvania who looks for the wonder in the mundane.

Giulio Maffii

"Finisterre"

"New World Travel"

"New World Arrival"

He was born in Florence (Italy). His studies are dedicated to poetry (linear-experimental-visual) and its diffusion. He has published in many international magazines. He collaborates with “Bubamara Teatro” Theater Company. He teaches at the University of Florence. He plays with collages and photos.

Harriet Samuelson

4 untitled selections

Harriet Samuelson is a Boston-based research administrator and photographer. Her images are environmental portraits, documenting the quotidian, but often in an abstract way.

Louis Staeble

"Autumnal Cluster"

"Intimate Autumn"

"When We Are Left"

"Yellow Shades"

Louis Staeble, fine arts photographer and poet, lives in Bowling Green, Ohio. His photographs have appeared in Agave, Blinders Journal, Blue Hour, Cenacle, and numerous others.

Alex Stolis

"2218 1st Avenue"

"May Peace Prevail on Earth"

"7th Street Entry"

"Forgotten"

Alex Stolis lives in Minneapolis and has had poems published in numerous journals. Two full-length collections, Pop. 1280 and John Berryman Died Here, were released by Cyberwit and are available on Amazon. His work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Piker’s Press, Jasper’s Folly Poetry Journal, Beatnik Cowboy, One Art Poetry, Black Moon Magazine, and Star 82 Review.

artists vol 5 i.2

“A true artist is not one who is inspired but one who inspires others.” ~Salvador Dalí

Visual Art - vol 5, i.2

Includes 11 new and established artists from around the globe. Take a look at our talented contributors.

Dee

(acrylic on canvas) - "Abstract Still Life"

"Jane Eyre"

"Portrait in White"

"Serenity" (cover image)

From a very young age, Dee remembers different family members influencing and contributing to her love of art and travel. At fifteen, her father gifted her with her first set of oils, imparting a passion of a lifetime—all things art related. Traveling throughout Europe and the Middle East has contributed to her style and technique over a lifetime. Painting is her true joy.

Andrea & Lara Damic

(mixed media) - "What Makes Us"

“What Makes Us” is an acrylic painting done by a nine-year-old girl. The painting was then superimposed onto a photograph with her eyes looking in the distance. The photographer’s idea was to show the human spirit in all its colours and complexity. This double exposure manipulation was done by Andrea Damic, but the full credit for the artistic expression goes to Andrea’s daughter, Lara Damic.

Andrea Damic (Sydney, Australia) is an amateur photographer and author of prose and poetry. Her photographs appear among finalists in Fusion Art and Light Space & Time Online Art Exhibitions or in online/print publications. Andrea’s especially proud of having her photographs published on the covers of Door Is A Jar, Rat’s Ass Review and Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag.

Steve Denehan

(acrylic on canvas) - "Winter Beach"

Steve Denehan lives in Kildare, Ireland, with his wife, Eimear, and daughter Robin. He is the author of two chapbooks and four poetry collections. Winner of the Anthony Cronin Poetry Award and twice winner of Irish Times’ New Irish Writing, his numerous publication credits include Poetry Ireland Review and Westerly.

Kevin R. Farrell, Jr.

(mixed media) - "Mind and Heart"

Kevin R. Farrell, Jr. is a Brooklyn, NY-based artist, poet, and educator. His artwork is neo-neo-expressionist with a focus on getting out what he can no longer hold in. His life is a work in progress.

Peter Grant

(acrylic on canvas) - Untitled

"Oklahoma State Fair"

"Rainy Night in the City"

Peter Grant is an abstract expressionist painter who lives in Huntsville, Alabama. Born in St. Petersburg, FL, he grew up in Greenville, SC, immersed within an artistic family, and studied at Clemson University. Peter paints with acrylics on canvas, using a broad brush and bold, bright colors to create emotion, expressing movement and excitement. Peter paints the ephemeral for his clients, reminding them and providing a glimpse of important and loving moments in time.

Amy Marques

(hybrid art) - from On the House Series

On the House Series: Erasure poetry using acrylic on a page of the novel One on the House, by Mary Lasswell.

"Practice"

"Winter Evenings"

Amy Marques has been known to call books friends and is on a first name basis with many fictional characters. She has visual art, poetry, and prose published in journals such as Streetcake Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, MoonPark Review, Bending Genres, Ghost Parachute, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Gone Lawn.

Nuala McEvoy

(acrylic on canvas) - "Lindsay’s Paderborn"

"Mío noche"

"Orin’s Space"

Nuala McEvoy started writing and painting during the pandemic. Since then, both hobbies have become her passions. Her written work (poetry and prose) has been published in online and paper journals and anthologies, and she has read on podcasts. Her paintings currently appear in two exhibitions in Münster, Germany, and in several online journals.

Michael Moreth

(gouache painting) -"Nurturing"

"Objectively"

Michael Moreth is a recovering Chicagoan living in the rural, micropolitan City of Sterling, the Paris of Northwest Illinois.

John Schiano

(hybrid art) - "In the Woods That Had Filled with Snow"

visual poetry & pen and ink

John Schiano has been a successful fine artist and poet his entire life. His poetry has appeared in Mensa publications, and he’s won awards for poetry from Poetic Genius Society, Shadow Poetry, Rising Phoenix Review, and others. He’s also won awards for his book cover designs and illustrations. At this time, he’s exploring new forms of visual poetry.

Edward Michael Supranowicz

(digital painting) - "Wonder and Thunder 4"

Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a graduate background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, The Door Is A Jar, The Phoenix, and The Harvard Advocate.

Audrey Towns

(found poetry) - "One Hundred Years"

Found art is from Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude — mixed media with paint and wood.