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7/30/2023 Poetry by Subhaga Crystal Bacon Carl Wycoff CC
I wait and ache. I think I have been healing. after Sylvia Plath Over fifty years since Audrey Hepburn sang Moon River on that fire escape, her hair in a towel, I find the sheet music. It’s in The First 50 Piano Songs You Should Play. I believe that someone would know what I should play. Or that a girl—as they called her—would sing, wistfully, from her window. Outside the late winter sun melts the top of the snow-- not warm enough to thaw it all the way through. It’s February, spring still weeks away. Nostalgia is an acute homesickness, from the Greek words for return and pain. I don’t know what I’m returning from or to, only the sweet pain as I play the melody. I don’t know what waits round the bend. Could it be that thing that’s missing from myself, rainbow’s gold, despite the riches of my life here and now. I only know it lures like the river of the underworld, that much sought out oblivion. It seems to me as real as the river here in this Valley—its fire of liquid ice— the way it burns relentlessly its path to the sea. Subhaga Crystal Bacon (she/they) is a Queer poet living in rural Washington on unceded Methow land. She is the author of four collections of poetry including Surrender of Water in Hidden Places, Red Flag Poetry, 2022, and the Isabella Gardner Award-winning Transitory, forthcoming in the fall from BOA Editions. Transitory, BOA Editions Surrender of Water PoetryAwakening YouTube 7/30/2023 Poetry by Edward L. Canavan Carl Wycoff CC
[mettle of the heart] the proof is in the pain and the pull the ways in which we manage to go on despite all the reasons not to the way we continually allow ourselves to cave in and rebuild tells us everything we ever need to know. Edward L. Canavan is a Los Angeles based poet whose work has most recently been published in The Opiate, Literatus, as well as the June 2021 issue of Anti-Heroin Chic. He has 2 poetry collections published by Cyberwit Press. Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, he currently resides in North Hollywood, California, where he practices Buddhism and is currently listening to Rival Sons. 7/30/2023 Poetry by Jim Trainer Bruce Fingerhood CC
JUST PAST SOON so I came out of the desert still-hot to the frozen city and in its specters of light and its doom of jazz I took a room and a seat by the window where I wrote of my invisible woman blues too late to double back on my deal with loneliness I have a suit, a pen, a solitude that I take with me into the crowds that parse like birds into its towering glass and subterranean rivers I don’t mind you fingers-past limit the cacophony of dead whisperers the heavy petals blooming back to ground I don’t even mind I can’t see you these soaking-gauze nights and days of pat and obvious triumph the only thing I can’t get over about you is why I’ve reared back to feral and keep my pain in a tight packet I fill the suit jangle coins duck a fool’s simple laughter and skip a stride above a trodden pride, I mind simply terribly that you’re not here and I’m gone before I arrive Jim Trainer contributes to Substack, served as columnist for Into The Void and blogged at Going For the Throat for over a decade. Trainer publishes one letterpressed collection every year through Yellow Lark Press. STRIDE is his 8th. As a progenitor of Stand UpTragedy™ he performs regularly throughout the world. 7/29/2023 Photography by Ellen Harrold Beneath
Ellen Harrold is an artist focused on the human connection to science and nature. A core aspect of her practice is exploring alienation and abstraction as facets of our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. She has recently taken part in exhibitions such as Cause Célèbre with the Oobleck Collective (2022), The Medical Humanities Across Time with Obliquity Medical Humanities Collective (2023), and Colour with the Glasgow Gallery of Photography (2023). She has also recently published poetry in New Note Poetry, Danse Macabre and Die Leere Mitte. As well as her first book, Aesthetics and Conventions of Medical Art. 7/29/2023 Photography by Sara Slingerland Sheiner   Sara Slingerland Sheiner is mostly water and fire. More of her work can be found at www.sarasheiner.com. 7/29/2023 Photography by Willow Critchlow Reflections  Sunset  Bookstore  Blossom
Willow Critchlow is a recluse with a passion for film photography matched only by her love for the solitude of nature and hushed bookstore visits. While Willow cherishes her seclusion, she occasionally ventures out into the world beyond her hermitage, hoping to capture the essence of those quiet, fleeting moments in time that often go unnoticed. In a world inundated with constant distractions, Willow's photography serves as a gentle reminder to slow down and perhaps pause for a moment. She hopes. 7/29/2023 Photography by Lauren Cindy Yew-Siong   Lauren Cindy Yew-Siong is currently a South African PhD candidate in Psychology (Research) and has an immense passion for art, photography and writing. More than this, she also works as a language editor, proofreader, ghost writer and thesis coach for postgraduate students in health sciences. Apart from academia, Lauren also holds a diploma in fine arts and has published both in academia (her research mainly explores South African religio-cultural belief systems, indigenous knowledge and treatment plurality within psychological praxis); and has also published poetry which deals with raw emotion in various situations that many can relate to, it also caters for autistic individuals who are on the spectrum, as the author herself is an autistic individual. With that being said, photography has also been a major source of inner peace and beauty, as it allows one to capture fleeting moments in time. 7/29/2023 Photography by Ariana Gavriilidis Anxious  Anonymous
Ariana Gavriilidis is a freelance television producer, photographer, and wannabe writer based in New Jersey. She's published creative nonfiction work in HerStry, Red Noise Collective, and Digest Mag. She’s worked alongside her mentor Mel DiGiacomo, USTA Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame recipient. Her photographs featured at the International Center of Photography in New York City as well as in other galleries and shops in Upstate NY and New Jersey. Find and follow Ariana on Instagram and TikTok @ag_curate and Twitter @arianagav18. 7/29/2023 Photography by Martha Reich Polaroid  Sky Wires  Sunflower in Snow  Trees at Sunset
Martha Reich, originally from New England, received a B.F.A. in Illustration from Parsons School of Design and Philadelphia College of Art, exhibiting her multimedia art in galleries throughout the country. Before becoming a massage therapist and energy worker, Martha worked as a jeweler for over 15 years, fabricating and designing pieces from precious and semi precious metals and stones. She created her own line of hand painted costume jewelry based out of NYC, distributed nationally in the late '80s, and seen in popular fashion magazine publications. Martha is also an award winning Santa Fe-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, playing music around the world, and has shared stages with Melissa Crabtree, Consuelo Luz, the Reverend Horton Heat and others, as well as opening for Kate Macleod and performing at the Sundance Film Festival. Music and art continues to call to her spirit as she relocated to Santa Fe in 1999 and has since released five CDs including the award winning album entitled ‘BRAVE BIRD’. Martha is also a Certified Music for Healing and Transition Practitioner, and plays music for those in hospice, with Alzheimers, and those being treated and living with cancer. To find out more about Martha Reich, please visit: www.marthareich.com and email: [email protected] 7/29/2023 Artwork by Sugar de Santo Sunset Rust  White Surface  Pink Square
Sugar de Santo is a gay, disabled, German writer from Berlin, Germany. His work has been published in The Writers Club and The Storms. More of his work will be published soon at Brack Magazine, and Beaver Magazine. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram @sugar_de. |
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