Jennifer Weigel

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Jennifer Weigel Jennifer Weigel is a multi-disciplinary mixed media conceptual artist. Weigel utilizes a wide range of media to convey her ideas, including assemblage, drawing, fibers, installation, jewelry, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and writing. Much of her work touches on themes of beauty, identity (especially gender identity), memory & forgetting, and institutional critique. Weigel’s art has been exhibited nationally in all 50 states and has won numerous awards. Artist Statement: I have always photographed things that catch my eye, especially the more mundane or overlooked those things might be. I am particularly drawn to details of nature & sky and the view looking up. My background is primarily in drawing, fibers, and conceptual art, and I love using photography as a means of exploring visual textures and patterns in my everyday environment as it harkens to my history with textiles. About This Image: This photograph was taken at the Spring Hill Farm on the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Kansas, USA. It features a large ball of barbed wire not unlike a ball of twine or string. I was drawn to the subject matter because of the juxtaposition of a material that is pointy, unwelcoming, and generally seen as somewhat dangerous (especially when rusted like this) with a form that is associated with softness, knitting sweaters, and kittens.

Robin Young

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Robin Young Artist Robin Young, based in Borrego Springs, California, works in mixed media, focusing mostly on collage and contemporary art making. Her focus on collage art using magazine clippings, masking tape, wallpaper, jewelry, feathers, foil, etc., allows her to develop deep into the whimsical and intuitive. From large, life-sized pieces and 3D sculptures to small postcard-sized arrangements, Robin’s keen eye and gripping esthetic guide her viewers into her own semi-readymade world.

Dominick Williams

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Dominick Williams I am Dominick Lamar Williams, or “Dahm W.” I’m an African American man, born in July 1996, raised in Long Beach, California. I hold an AA in studio arts from Cypress Community College, focusing on printmaking, and a bachelor’s in studio arts from Cal State University Long Beach, where I focused on printmaking, ceramics and painting. I am currently based in Los Angeles, where my practice is developing through the use of collage and creating with experimental media. Raised in Long Beach and Los Angeles, I am deeply influenced by the cities that shaped me physically, mentally, and spiritually. My experiences and observations fuel my work, which blends abstract realism with contemporary expression. Through mark-making, composition, and visual techniques, I create dialogues about self-worth, identity, and the personal battles we all face. My journey exists in the tension between societal expectations and the need to create authentically. Confronting the painful and joyful truths of my existence through art is what guides my purpose. Art is not just something I do—it is the essence of who I am.

Emma Galloway Stephens

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Emma Galloway Stephens Emma Galloway Stephens is a neurodivergent poet and professor from the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina. Her poems have appeared in The Windhover, the Christian Century, Door Is A Jar, Salvation South, and many others. She is a co-founder and the Educational Director of Arbor Institute for the Arts in Greenville, SC. Read more at egstephenspoetry.com. Website: egstephenspoetry.com Contusion

Jessica Poli

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Jessica Poli Jessica Poli is the author of the poetry collection Red Ocher (University of Arkansas Press, 2023), which was a finalist for the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Blackbird, North American Review, and Poet Lore, among other journals. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska and is the managing editor of Prairie Schooner. Triptych: At the Massage Therapy Clinic

Camille Comer

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Camille Comer S. Camille Comer is a mixed media sculptor who was born and raised in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Camille makes Fluxus style works about the relationships people share based on the artifacts left in the wake of these connections. She utilizes ubiquitous tools, familial artifacts, found objects, and fabrication to create scenes depicting her feelings towards the person the objects were either purchased, fabricated, or worn by. Camille received her BFA from Middle Tennessee State University in 2022 and is an MFA candidate and 3D/103 instructor at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. She is expected to graduate in 2026. Camille has shown work at both universities, online at the Las Laguna Art Gallery in Laguna Beach, California, at The Walk in Closet in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and in the Rotunda of Murfreesboro, Tennessee’s City Hall. She worked as a Metal Shop technician from 2021 through 2023 for Middle Tennessee State University and is currently the Visual Arts Production Coordinator for Tennessee’s Governor’s School for the Arts and has been since 2023. Camille has a public works sculpture that was commissioned by the Cannon County Art’s Center in Woodbury, Tennessee and has had multiple sculptures published in Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression and Blood Orange Review. She currently lives and works in Pullman, Washington, as an Instructor within the Foundations Area, under the Woodshop/Botcave Technician JJ Harty, and the Ceramics Technician Kassie Smith. Artist Statement: “Oh FUCK, I’m pregnant!” was the first thought that provoked the start of my current work. Relationships are consequential, especially parent and child dynamics, so this is what I began thinking about in terms of my own childhood. How have I been shaped by those around me? How do the objects I find to be sentimental define my bonds with those who raised me? Can I use my past to connect to those around me with only artifacts of my existence? I am working on being surrounded by interior thoughts that create portals into my past through found and fabricated objects and tools that tie together my experiences with those of the masses. In my experience, people generally understand movement and connection, whether physical or representational, through objects of their past, so why can’t I use objects from my past to convey what those ties of kinship have done for me as an adult? I have been comparing how I look at each attachment and which direction these memories have taken me. Representing my intimate dependance with my grandparents is where I’ve begun, starting in a very linear direction that moves towards my parents, mentors, and siblings from here.

Emma Reilly

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories E.G. Reilly E.G. Reilly is a current MFA candidate in poetry at the University of St. Andrews and a graduate of the University of Virginia. She is the winner of the 2024 Rachel St. Paul Poetry Prize and a commended poet in the 2024 International Troubadour Awards. When not writing poetry, you can find her teaching vinyasa yoga or watching a horror movie with her latest crochet project. More of her writing can be found in Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose and on her Substack, Open Mic. A Peach Tree

Cindy Milwe

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Cindy Milwe Cindy Milwe is a writer and teacher who lives in Venice, CA. Her work has been published in many journals and magazines, including 5 AM, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry East, Poet Lore, Post Road, The William and Mary Review, Flyway, Talking River Review, and The Georgetown Review. She also has poems in three anthologies: Another City: Writing from Los Angeles (City Lights, 2001); Changing Harm to Harmony: The Bullies and Bystanders Project (Marin Poetry Center Press, 2015) and Rumors, Secrets, & Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion, & Choice (Anhinga Press, 2022). Her first full-length collection, Salvage, was published in 2022 by Finishing Line Press. The Body Center

Neal Allen Shipley

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Neal Allen Shipley Neal Allen Shipley (he/him) is a poet living in Colorado with a modest collection of pets and an unhinged collection of plants. His writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and can be found in recent issues of South Broadway Press, & Change, and Tough Poets Review among others. Despite the horrors, he loves a fancy hot dog. Find him on Instagram @nealio9 Instagram: @nealio9 But, like when did you know?

Jarred Mercer

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Jarred Mercer Jarred Mercer (he/him) is a poet living in Massachusetts. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK, and a masters from the University of St. Andrews, UK, and has published extensively in his academic field of religious studies. Jarred is an episcopal priest and the president of The Resettlement Partnership, a non-profit organization creating a new system of affordable housing for refugees. Having grown up in Florida, Jarred lived most of his adult life in Europe before finding a new home on the North Shore of Boston. How to Lament on a Tuesday at a Coffee Shop at 16:23 PST