Volume 4, Issue 1

vol 4, i.1

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ~ Albert Camus

Autumnal Equinox, fall/winter 2023

Ah, this issue— All things Autumnal and otherwise. The words, images, creativity, and imagination that have gone into the countless hours culminating in this issue coming to fruition is absolutely breathtaking. We have visual art and imagery like never before, and the words that touch the page, ahh . . . the words.

This issue features 72 new and established contributors from around the globe and from every walk of life. My sincere congratulations and thank you to all who have contributed to creating this special 126-page, full-color issue! May the pages take you on a thousand journeys and a thousand more.

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"By Slow Degrees" cover photo by Louis Staeble

Featured Contributors

Featured Prose Writer

Logan Rose

“Maman”

There’s a spider in the corner of my bathroom. Her name is Maman, and she is horrible. Truly, terrifying. Her name is Maman because when I first saw her, she was the biggest spider I had ever seen. Then, the egg sac on her back burst, and she was suddenly surrounded by tiny, baby spiders. I thought she might take care of them.

Instead, Maman began eating the weak. The only surviving spiders are the ones who were smart enough to spin their own webs and get far, far away. One spider took to the other corner of my bathroom. Before I had time to name him, he was gone. The three survivors are spread in an even line at the top of my window, snagging insects as they attempt to fly in and bite me. Still, they are not as large as Maman, who has lately developed stripes on her legs, like some kind of badge of honor for maternal cruelty.

Maman’s abdomen has swollen again, and I am scared to see what happens next.

Unrelated, I was recently speaking to my mother on the phone. She asked when I would come home. I looked at Maman and let the call drop.

I, too, was wise enough to spin my own web.

At least with Maman, what you see is exactly what you get.

Artist’s Statement

My writing explores the intersection between love and fear, which I believe are the two most powerful forces in human existence. I am also interested in the process of survival – how we move through the darkness of trauma and into our own light. I engage with intense emotions, and on the page, I am never, ever afraid of the dark.

Bio

Logan Rose is the author of “Cat Eyes” in Dream Noir and “Wild Strawberries” in Creation Magazine. She has been an artist-in-residence at Château d’Orquevaux and is currently seeking representation for her debut novel, How to Kill Yourself and Make it Look Like an Accident.

Featured Poet

Candace Kubinec

Haiku

Autumn leaf
withered by the seasons
like aging skin

Artist’s Statement

Whether I’m playing with words or pixels, I try to find the glimmer of beauty in the mundane, to coax the soul from the everyday. My hope is that my work will help others feel the magic in objects and people, overlooked or taken for granted, and look closer at the natural world that surrounds us all.

Bio

Sometimes, she pretends she’s a poet, and sometimes she pretends she’s an artist. Mostly, she is inspired by the world that surrounds her.

Featured Artist

Kevin R. Farrell, Jr.

“the digital footprint of Jesus cemented in the void”

Artist’s Statement

I know Picasso was right when he said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up,” because as I grew up and trained to become what I perceived an artist to be, I lost something. It wasn’t until my wife and I had our daughter, and she began to paint and draw, that I saw what I was missing. She was free. She was uninhibited. She was a force. She was an artist. It was through watching her that I found the truest and purest inspiration to create in a way that made sense and felt right. It was with the freedom of a child.

Bio

Kevin R. Farrell, Jr. is a Brooklyn, NY based artist, poet, and educator whose work has been published in The Poetry Society of New York, Burning House Press, Ink in Thirds Magazine, Foxhole Magazine, and others. His poems document a husband and father dancing the fine line between spiritual bliss and emotional upheaval as he deals with the dumpster fire.

prose contributors

“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 4, i.1

Includes 22 new and established prose contributors from around the world. Take a look at our talented contributors.

Jennifer Alessi

Prose

"Buttons" vol 4, i.1

Jennifer Alessi holds a BA in English from Columbia University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Her essays have appeared in Critical Read, Hippocampus, River Teeth, and elsewhere.

Britt Astrid Alphson

Prose

"Marketplace Daughter" vol 4, i.1

Britt Astrid Alphson is a MFA candidate at Columbia University, where she studies Fiction Writing. She lives in New York.

Paul Beckman

Prose

"If I Pulled Down the Shades... " vol 4, i.1

Paul Beckman’s latest flash collection, Kiss Kiss (Truth Serum Press) was a finalist for the 2019 Indie Book Awards. Some of his stories appeared in Necessary Fiction, Litro, Pank, Blue, Lyre. Playboy, WINK, The Wax Paper, and Monkey. He was nominated for 2021 Best of the Web and selected for Best Microfiction 2022.

C.W. Bryan

Prose

"Swordmaster" vol 4, i.1

C.W. Bryan is a student at Georgia State University. He lives with his clowder of cats (the best to ever do it) and girlfriend in Atlanta, GA where he writes poetry and short fiction. He is currently writing daily poetry prompts with a friend of his at poetryispretentious.com.

CB Droege

Prose

"Within Her" vol 4, i.1

CB Droege is an author and voice actor from the Queen City living in the Millionendorf. His latest book is Quantum Age Adventures. Short fiction publications include work in Nature Futures, Science Fiction Daily, and dozens of other magazines and anthologies.

Halley Fehner

Prose

"Undone" vol 4, i.1

Halley Fehner is a Maryland-based writer and interpretive planner. Her writing has appeared in Berkeley Fiction Review, The First Line, Taco Bell Quarterly, and elsewhere.

Bryan Fitzgerald

Prose

"How to Catch Salmon..." vol 4, i.1

Bryan Fitzgerald is a graduate of Kenyon College. He trades commodities in Minneapolis to pay the bills.

Michael Harmon

Prose

"Sarcophagus: an excerpt" vol 4, i.1

Michael Harmon has a B.A. in English Literature from Long Island University and a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Arizona State University. Some of his work has appeared in North American Review, Calliope, and New Plains Review.

Robert Keal

Prose

"Jukebox" vol 4, i.1

Robert Keal hails from Kent but currently lives in Solihull, West Midlands, where he works as a copywriter. His recent work can be found in 100 Word Story and The Ekphrastic Review. He loves walking the tightrope between strangeness and reality.

Craig Kirchner

Prose

"Pole Dancing" vol 4, i.1

Craig has written poetry all his life, is now retired, and thinks of poetry as hobo art. He loves storytelling and the aesthetics of paper and pen. He was nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize in the early 2000’s, and has a book of poetry, Roomful of Navels. After a writing hiatus, he was recently published in Decadent Review.

Kate Lewington

Prose

"to have room to breathe" vol 4, i.1

From the South of England, Kate is a writer/poet and blogger. Their writing is largely based on the themes of belonging, loss, mental illness, and wonder.

Amy Marques

Prose

"Room 139 in the..." vol 4, i.1

Amy Marques grew up between languages and places and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She penned children’s books, barely read medical papers and letters before turning to short fiction and visual poetry, published in journals including Streetcake Magazine, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, Ghost Parachute, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Reservoir Road Literary Review.

Kaci MoDavis

Prose

"Searching For A Cure..." vol 4, i.1

Kaci MoDavis is an undergraduate student studying Creative Writing and Sociology at Susquehanna University. Her work has appeared in publications such as Rivercraft Magazine, Sanctuary Magazine, and Apricot Press. When she isn’t writing about melancholic situations and frustrating protagonists, you can find her gorging on horror films and feeding the wildlife in her mountainous backyard.

Indira Moosai

Prose

"Soft Targets" vol 4, i.1

Indira Moosai is a 25-year-old who likes to dream on paper. Though originally from Trinidad, she currently resides in Florida. She holds a B.A. in Writing from The University of Tampa, and when not writing, one can find her performing aerial arts or meditating.

Logan Rose

Prose

"Maman" vol 4, i.1

Thaddeus Rutkowski

Prose

"First Gun" vol 4, i.1

Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of seven books, most recently Tricks of Light, a poetry collection. He teaches at Medgar Evers College and Columbia University and received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Terry Sanville

"Eucalyptus" vol 4, i.1

Prose

Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife and two plump cats. Numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies have accepted his stories and essays. Three of his stories were nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and one for inclusion in the Best of the Net Anthology.

JoAnna Scandiffio

Prose

"Backwalkers" vol 4, i.1

JoAnna is a gemologist living in San Francisco. Her poems are like bird nests, made with fragments randomly connected to hold the moment. Her work has appeared in Calyx, The Poeming Pigeon, and The MacGuffin.

Beate Sigriddaughter

Prose

"A Man and a Woman" vol 4, i.1

Beate Sigriddaughter lives in Silver City, New Mexico (Land of Enchantment), where she was poet laureate from 2017 to 2019.

Sally Simon

Prose

"How to Hold in a Laugh at Church..." vol 4, i.1

Sally Simon (ze/hir) lives in the Catskills of New York State. Hir writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in Roi Faineant, Longleaf Review, Citron Review, Emerge Lit, Vision Magazine, (mac)ro(mic), and elsewhere. When not writing, ze’s either traveling the world or stabbing people with hir epee.

Cheryl Snell

Prose

"He Completes the World’s..." vol 4, i.1

Cheryl Snell’s books include several poetry collections and the novels of her Bombay Trilogy. Her latest title is a series called Intricate Things in their Fringed Peripheries. Most recently, her writing has appeared in Gone Lawn, Impspired, Necessary Fiction, Pure Slush, and other journals. A classical pianist, she lives in Maryland with her husband, a mathematical engineer.

Catherine Yeates

Prose

"I Am the Light Observing" vol 4, i.1

Catherine Yeates is a writer and artist. Their fiction has been published or is forthcoming in MetaStellar, Wyngraf, and Tree And Stone. They live with their partner, cat, and two rambunctious dogs.

poetry contributors

“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 4, i.1

Includes 42 new and established poetry contributors from around the world. Take a look at our talented contributors.

Kate Alderman

Poetry

"Cycle" vol 4, i.1

Kate Alderman is pursuing her MFA in Poetry at Lindenwood University. This is her first publication.

Anne Bannon

Poetry

"Jealousy of the Self-Portrait" vol 4, i.1

Anne Bannon is a student at Scripps College in Claremont, California. She has been writing poetry for ten years and painting still lifes for two. Some of her writing can be found published in the online magazine Study Breaks.

Charlie Bird

Poetry

"Butterfly Larvae"

"Metamorphosis" vol 4, i.1

Charlotte “Charlie” Bird (they/them), a free verse writer, resides in the Midwest with their cherished best friend and life partner. When Charlie is not wandering the shelves at their local library, they are playing video games with their husband and friends.

Robyn Braun

Poetry

"Stay Strong" vol 4, i.1

Robyn Braun earned her MFA from the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing. She holds a PhD in Sociology and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Her essay, “The Stutter of Emmett’s Stutter,” won subTerrain’s Lush Triumphant Prize for CNF.

Mars Brocke

Poetry

Haiku vol 4, i.1

Mars Brocke has been published in Otoliths, Imspired, and elsewhere. He loves 50s sci-flicks that are so bad they’re great. He loves street photography and William Shatner’s spoken word albums.

Michael H. Brownstein

Poetry

"Cole County, Missouri" vol 4, i.

Michael H. Brownstein’s latest volumes, A Slipknot to Somewhere Else (2018) and How Do We Create Love (2019), were published by Cholla Needles Press. He has appeared in American Letters and Commentary, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Pacific Review, and others. He has nine chapbooks, including A Period of Trees (Snark Press, 2004).

Christine Cock

Poetry

"Stroke of Love" vol 4, i.1

Christine is a lifetime conservationist, Naturalist, and poet who has been published in multiple online and print journals, her latest being in Kissing Dynamite and Sandhill Review. She lives in the woods of Florida with her husband and Catahoula Leopard dogs.

Philip H Coleman

Poetry

"Eleven. So Hard to Sleep." vol 4, i.1

Philip Coleman has arrived here the long way around–from fine arts Yale, to decades convincing Vermont high schoolers of the symmetric beauty of chemistry, to the molecular science of poetry. His work has appeared in Eunoia Review, Trouvaille Review, Quail Bell Magazine, Dillydoun Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Hyacinth Review, The Mountain Troubadour (VT), Interpretations– II-IV (MO), et al.

David Colodney

Poetry

"How do you know when eggs go bad?" vol 4, i.1

David Colodney is a poet living in Boynton Beach, Florida. He is author of the chapbook, Mimeograph, and his poetry has appeared in multiple journals. A two-time Pushcart nominee, David has written for the Miami Herald and the Tampa Tribune and currently serves as an associate editor of South Florida Poetry Journal.

Eugene Datta

Poetry

"Lonely Planet" vol 4, i.1

"A Tall House Where the Pond Was"

Eugene Datta’s recent work has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Rise Up Review, The Bombay Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. He edits research articles and lives in Aachen, Germany.

Jon Davis

Poetry

"Legacy" vol 4, i.1

Jon Davis is the author of six chapbooks and seven full-length poetry collections, including Above the Bejeweled City (Grid Books, 2021) and Choose Your Own America (FLP, 2022). A new collection, Anathematica, is forthcoming in 2025 from Grid Books. He has received a Lannan Literary Award, the Lavan Prize, and two NEA Fellowships.

Steve Denehan

Poetry

"2013, Before Dementia" vol 4, i.1

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.

W. D. Ehrhart

Poetry

"Holes" vol 4, i.1

W. D. Ehrhart is a Marine Corps veteran of the American War in Vietnam. He is the author of Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems, McFarland & Company, Inc., 2019.

Kevin R. Farrell, Jr.

Poetry

"Lessons in Nostalgia"

"May"

"Peanuts" vol 4, i.1

Kevin R. Farrell, Jr. is a Brooklyn, NY based artist, poet, and educator whose work has been published in The Poetry Society of New York, Burning House Press, Ink in Thirds Magazine, Foxhole Magazine, and others. His poems document a husband and father dancing the fine line between spiritual bliss and emotional upheaval as he deals with the dumpster fire.

Bryan Fitzgerald

Poetry

"Simple Love Poem 1, 2, & 3 " vol 4, i.1

Bryan Fitzgerald is a graduate of Kenyon College. He trades commodities in Minneapolis to pay the bills.

Michelle Fung

Poetry

"in colors (what you’ve missed)" vol4, i.1

Michelle Fung is a Chinese American writer and student from Washington. Her nonfiction pieces can be found in What We Experience Magazine. She is currently studying at the University of Pennsylvania and writes poetry in between classes or during study breaks.

Lee Gill

Poetry

"Dejection" vol 4, i.1

Lee Gill is a writer and activist born, raised and based in New Jersey. His work focuses on mental illness, racial injustice, addiction/recovery, and other societal ills that corrupt the human experience.

Barbara Greenbaum

Poetry

"A Place So Far Away"

"After a Good Rain" vol 4, i.1

Barbara P. Greenbaum taught creative writing at Arts at the Capitol Theater, a public magnet arts high school in Willimantic, Connecticut. Her book of poetry, The Last Thing, was published in November of 2022 by Main Street Rag. Her work has been published in Arcturus, Clementine Unbound, The Lascaux Review, The Louisville Review, and The Massachusetts Review, among others.

John Grey

Poetry

"Our Favorite Words" vol 4, i.1

John Grey is an Australian poet, and US resident, recently published in Stand, Washington Square Review, and Rathalla Review. Latest books, Covert, Memory Outside The Head, and Guest Of Myself, are available through Amazon. Work is upcoming in the McNeese Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, and Open Ceilings.

Ateeb Gul

Poetry

"Every Man's Jackson Pollock" vol 4, i.1

Ateeb Gul is a PhD student in Islamic studies at the Graduate Program in Religion, Boston University. In addition to being an academic, he is also an editor, writer, poet, and translator. His poetry and translations of poetry have appeared in Oxford University Press’s Literary Imagination, Ink In Thirds, the Sky Island Journal, and Eureka Literary Magazine.

Amshuman Hegde

Poetry

"The Woodpecker" vol 4, i.1

Amshuman Hegde is a writer residing in Bangalore, South India with his partner & two cats. He writes to pay the bills, the piper, and his respects to the world & its constituents. He’s previously been published in the Nether Quarterly.

Mark Hurtubise

Poetry

"Primordial Designs" vol 4, i.1

Mark Hurtubise. During the 1970s, numerous works were published. Then family, two college presidencies, and CEO of a foundation. Four decades later, he has appeared in such locales as pacificREVIEW; Grub Street; Burningword; Ink in Thirds; december; Artemis; Wayne Literary Review; North Dakota Quarterly; Stanford Social Review; Aji; Penumbra; Aura; Monovisions (2020, 2021); Monochrome (2022); Art Impact International exhibition (2023).

James Croal Jackson

Poetry

"Quarantine (Day 60 – May 14, 2020)" vol 4, i.1

James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. His latest chapbooks are Count Seeds With Me (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2022) and Our Past Leaves (Kelsay Books, 2021). Recent poems are in Stirring, Vilas Avenue, and *82 Review. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Philip Jason

Poetry

"I am still trying to remember…" vol 4, i.1

"Blame the Fucking Birds for Your Discontent"

"Anger is the Poem that is Written..."

Philip Jason’s writing can be found in Prairie Schooner, Ninth Letter, Lake Effect, The Indianapolis Review, and other journals. His first novel, Window Eyes, is available from Unsolicited Press. His first collection of poetry, I Don’t Understand Why It’s Crazy to Hear the Beautiful Songs of Nonexistent Birds, is forthcoming from Fernwood Press.

Mark Jensen

Poetry

"In the Granite Cathedral" vol 4, i.1

Mark C. Jensen is a Boston-area attorney and writer. He is a regular contributor to The Montreal Review, and his poetry has previously been published in Ink in Thirds and other journals.

Hilary King

Poetry

"Communal" vol 4, i.1

Hilary King is a poet originally from Virginia and now living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Her poems have appeared or will appear in Ploughshares, Salamander, TAB, Belletrist, SWWIM, Fourth River, The Cortland Review, and other publications. She is the author of the book of poems, The Maid’s Car, and the founder of Bay Area Poets.

Craig Kirchner

Poetry

"3AM" vol 4, i.1

Three Line Poem vol 4, i.1

Craig thinks of poetry as hobo art. He loves the aesthetics of paper and pen. The parallel, blue lines on white legal, knowing that the ink, when it meets the resistance of the page, will feel extroverted, able to jump, the two skinny, red lines to get past the margin. He has a book of poetry, Roomful of Navels.

Candace Kubinec

Poetry

Haiku vol 4, i.1

Sometimes, she pretends she’s a poet, and sometimes she pretends she’s an artist. Mostly she is inspired by the world that surrounds her.

Nancy Smiler Levinson

Poetry

"Octogenarian Years" vol 4, i.1

Nancy is author of Moments of Dawn: A Poetic Memoir and a poetry collection, The Diagnosis Changes Everything. Her work has appeared in Panoply, Constellations, Hamilton Stone Review, Sleet, Copperfield Review, Poetica, Burningword Literary Journal, and elsewhere. In past chapters of her life, she published some thirty books for young readers. She lives and writes in Los Angeles.

Kenna Lloyd

Poetry

"Neon Orange Life Jacket" vol 4, i.1

Kenna Lloyd is a recent graduate of the University of Victoria’s writing program. She has been published in various magazines such as Scene PG, YAM Magazine, and The Tyee. Her interests include creative nonfiction and journalism.

Benjamin Nardolilli

Poetry

"Cobblestone Catalyst" vol 4, i.1

Ben Nardolilli is currently an MFA candidate at Long Island University. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, SLAB, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, The Northampton Review, Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine, The Minetta Review, and Yes Poetry.

Morgan Neering

Poetry

"Little Things, in Fall" vol 4, i.1

Born and raised in small town USA, Morgan is an American writer and poet living in France. She is currently working on her debut photo-poetry collection, focusing on the exploration of nostalgia and self-discovery.

Victoria Nordlund

Poetry

"I Thought of You & White Apple..."

"Quilting" vol 4, i.1

Victoria Nordlund’s poetry collection Wine-Dark Sea was published by Main Street Rag in 2020. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize Nominee, whose work has appeared in PANK Magazine, Rust+Moth, Chestnut Review, Pidgeonholes, and elsewhere.

Frederick Pollack

Poetry

"Turing Test" vol 4, i.1

Author of two book-length narrative poems, The Adventure and Happiness (Story Line Press; the former reissued in 2022 by Red Hen Press), and three collections, A Poverty of Words (Prolific Press, 2015), Landscape with Mutant (Smokestack Books, UK, 2018), and The Beautiful Losses (Better Than Starbucks Books, September 2023). Many other poems are in print and online journals. Poetics: neither navel-gazing nor mainstream.

Matthew Porubsky

Poetry

"from Stand in Old Light" vol 4, i.1

Matthew Porubsky is a writer born and raised in Topeka, Kansas. He is the author of voyeur poems, Fire Mobile (the pregnancy sonnets), John, Ruled by Pluto, and Serpent’s Lap. He currently works as a copywriter at the University of Kansas.

Julianna Riccioli

Poetry

"not just anybody (body)" vol 4, i.1

Julianna Riccioli is a third-year English major at UT Austin. When she isn’t writing, she is tending to the growing collection of plants on her windowsill, trying coffee drinks, or thrifting. In her writing, she hopes to portray the whimsy and the mystery that life may bring. Her work can be found in Apricity Magazine and Hothouse Literary Journal.

Susan Richardson

Poetry

"Hummingbird" vol 4, i.1

Susan Richardson is an internationally published poet. She is the author of Things My Mother Left Behind, from Potter’s Grove Press, and Tiger Lily, an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell, published by JC Studio Press. She also writes the blog, Stories from the Edge of Blindness.

Antara Roy

Poetry

Haiku vol 4, i.1

Antara Roy is a writer and poet based out of Bangalore, India. A graduate of the EFLU, Hyderabad, her writings are about everyday, common people and the magic in their lives, which often goes unnoticed.

Michael Salcman

Poetry

"A New Year's Eve Greeting" vol 4, i.1

Michael Salcman, former neurosurgery chairman, University of Maryland. Poems in Barrow Street, Harvard Review, Hudson Review, and Smartish Pace. Books include The Clock Made of Confetti, Poetry in Medicine, classic and contemporary poems about medicine, A Prague Spring (Sinclair Poetry Prize), Shades & Graces, Daniel Hoffman Book Prize winner, and Necessary Speech: New & Selected Poems (Spuyten Duyvil in 2022).

Gerard Sarnat

Poetry

"EQUINOXES [3]" vol 4, i.1

Gerard Sarnat MD has won prizes/been nominated for handfuls of Pushcarts/Best of Net Awards, authored four collections, and is widely published including recently by Dartmouth, Penn, Oberlin, Brown, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, Review Berlin, New Ulster, Gargoyle, Margie, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Free State Review, Brooklyn Review, Los Angeles Review, San Francisco Magazine, and New York Times.

Lola Stansbury-Jones

Poetry

"The Promenade (Revisited)" vol 4, i.1

Lola is a young, working-class writer originally from North Wales. Her work has been featured in Headline Poetry, Literary Yard, and Friday Flash Fiction. She was also named one of the Best New British and Irish Poets by the Black Spring Press Group in 2021.

Kim Turner

Poetry

"Barrier Island"

"Elegy" vol 4, i.1

Kim Turner lives and writes in West Central Florida. Her work can be found in the Hong Kong Review, Quartet Poetry Journal, and in Close Up: Poems on Cancer, Grief, Hope, and Healing, an Orchard Lea Poetry Anthology.

photographers

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

Photography - vol 4, i.1

Includes 10 new and established photographers from around the world. Take a look at our talented contributors.

Deborah Ajilore

Photography

Footprint

Untitled

Deborah Ajilore is a Nigerian writer and photographer. She is a member of the Frontiers Collective. Her works have been published in Invisible City Lit, Mud Season Review, Salamander Ink, Stanchion Magazine, Door Is AJar, and elsewhere.

Michael Anthony

Photography

Autumn Grass

Blossoms

Composition with Leaf

Hydrant

Iced No. 1

Milford Houses

New Life from Old

On the Rocks

Paterson 1974

Pear Alley

Reaching for the Sun

Reflections of You

River

Tail Fin

Taos Crosses

Michael Anthony is an artist and writer living in New Jersey. He has published fiction, poetry, illustrations, and photographs in literary journals and commercial magazines. Most recently, these include Fly Over Country, On-The-High Literary Journal, Drunk Monkeys, Bodega Magazine, Pigeon Review, The Coil Magazine, Dove Tales, and Raw Lit.

Timothy Gerken

Photography

Parked

Turning

Tim Gerken teaches writing at Syracuse University. He lives with his partner and their dog Khush in Central New York. His writing and photography have appeared in numerous publications like the wonderful Ink In Thirds.

Moriah Hampton

Photography

Barren Exuberance I

Corner Store

Moriah Hampton teaches in the Writing and Critical Inquiry Program at SUNY-Albany. Her fiction, poetry, photography, and photopoetry have appeared in The Coachella Review, Ponder Review, The Hamilton Stone Review, Brief Wilderness, and elsewhere.

Mark Hurtubise

Photography

Anamnesis

The Pearl

Mark Hurtubise. During the 1970s, numerous works were published. Then family, two college presidencies and CEO of a foundation. Four decades later, he has appeared in such locales as pacificREVIEW; Grub Street; Burningword; Ink in Thirds; december; Artemis; Wayne Literary Review; North Dakota Quarterly; Stanford Social Review; Aji; Penumbra; Aura; Monovisions (2020, 2021); Monochrome (2022); Art Impact International exhibition (2023).

Candace Kubinec

Photography

Hood Ornament

She photographs what she sees wherever she goes. Sometimes, she pretends she’s a poet, and sometimes she pretends she’s an artist. Mostly she is inspired by the world that surrounds her.

Mirja Paljakka

Photography

After Nightfrost

Fall is Here

Small Fungi

Mirja, the Finnish artist and photographer, operates from the countryside town of Ylojarvi with great passion and creativity. For her, photography is a never-ending journey that imparts new lessons every day, much like being a playful child and an everyday explorer.

Antara Roy

Photography

Untitled (2 works)

Antara Roy is a poet, writer, and photographer based out of Bangalore, India. A self-taught photographer, she tries to capture the beauty of everyday life, one magical moment at a time.

Louis Staeble

Photography

By Slow Degrees (cover art)

Simply Counting In The Dark

Type Of Dreamflower

Louis Staeble, fine arts photographer and poet, lives in Bowling Green, Ohio. His photographs have appeared in Blue Hour, Cenacle, Clever Fox, Conclave Journal, Elsewhere Magazine, GFT Magazine, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Four Ties Literary Review, Goatsmilk Magazine, Havik, Inklette, Light- A Journal, Little Somethings Press, Olney Magazine, Rubbertop Magazine, Sunspot Lit, The Helix, Tupelo Quarterly, Twist In Time, and Windmill.

Phillip Temples

Photography

Fire Hose

MIT Strata Center

Sunny Gate

Phillip Temples is still trying to make sense of it all. Writing and photography help.

artists

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

Visual Art - vol 4, i.1

Includes 7 new and established artists from around the world. Take a look at our talented contributors.

Dee

visual art

acrylic on canvas - “Harvest Moon”

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.

Steve Denehan

visual art

oil on canvas - “Autumn”

oil on canvas - “Distance ”

Kevin R. Farrell, Jr.

visual art

hybrid art - “Last Night There Was a Whale..."

hybrid art - “the digital footprint of Jesus..."

Amy Marques

visual art

watercolor: coffee grounds were used as 'paint'

"Grounded"

collage: acrylics, watercolor, & flower petals

"Moth to Flame"

temporary art: petals & coffee & sugar

"September Song"

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, MoonPark Review, Bending Genres, Ghost Parachute, Chicago Quarterly Review, Reservoir Road Literary Review, and Gone Lawn. More at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.

Sally Simon

visual art

hybrid art - "If Only"

Sally Simon (ze/hir) lives in upstate New York where ze attempts to be creative in a variety of ways. Hir first hybrid artwork was published in CutBow Quarterly. This is hir second.

Soulhearts

visual art

mixed media on 8” x 10” canvas panel - “Iris”

mixed media on 8” x 10” canvas panel - untitled

Soulhearts’ love for Haiku and poetry awakened the creative spirit in her. She started writing micro-poetry on love, loss, nature, and emotions that touch the human soul. She also dabbles in photography, multi-media art, and paper crafts. Her poetry was part of the published anthologies, Into The Void issue 2, Luminous Echoes, Yearnings, and Metaphorphosis.

Nicole Zdeb

visual art

watercolor - "Flowers in Dirt”

multimedia - “Deep Dive”

Nicole Zdeb is a writer, visual artist, and astrologer based in the Pacific Northwest.