Cynthia Yatchman
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Cynthia Yatchman Cynthia Yatchman is a Seattle-based artist and art instructor. With an MA in child development and a BA in education, she has a strong interest in art education and teaches art to adults, children, and families in Seattle. As a former ceramicist, she studied with J.T. Abernathy in Ann Arbor, MI; however, after receiving her BFA in painting from the University of Washington, she switched from 3D art to 2D and has remained there ever since. She works primarily on paintings, prints, and collages. Her art is housed in numerous public and private collections, and she has been shown nationally in California, Connecticut, New York, Indiana, Michigan, Oregon, and Wyoming. She has exhibited extensively in the Northwest, including shows at Seattle University, Seattle Pacific University, Shoreline Community College, the Tacoma and Seattle Convention Centers, and the Pacific Science Center. She is a member of the Seattle Print Arts Association and CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art). Website: facebook.com/cynthia.yatchman Instagram: @cynthiayatchmanart Color Trianaepta
Peter Scacco
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Peter Scacco Peter L. Scacco began making woodcut prints when he was sixteen years old. His artwork has been featured in numerous print and online journals. Mr. Scacco also is the author of seven books of poetry and a translation of Théophile Gautier’s The Salon of 1850-51. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, and a graduate of Fordham University with a degree in art history, Mr. Scacco has lived and worked in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Brussels, and cities throughout the USA. Since 1995 he has made his home in Austin, Texas. Further examples of his art can be seen at www.scaccowoodcuts.com. Website: www.scaccowoodcuts.com. Fragment Pattern Composition 7-22
Daniela Naomi Molnar
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Daniela Naomi Molnar Daniela Naomi Molnar is an artist, poet, and pigment worker collaborating with the mediums of language, image, paint, pigment, and place. She is also a wilderness guide, educator, and eternal student. An entry in the Oregon Encyclopedia states, “Molnar pioneered the notion that art can speak to climate change.” Her work is the subject of a front-page feature in the Los Angeles Times, an Oregon Art Beat profile, and a feature in Poetry Daily. Her visual work has been shown nationally, is in public and private collections internationally, and has been recognized by numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies. Her book CHORUS is a finalist for the 2024 Oregon Book Award and was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of Omnidawn’s 1st/2nd Book Award. Her work will be anthologized in the forthcoming The Ecopoetry Anthology and is anthologized in Breaking the Glass: A Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology. Her next books are PROTOCOLS (Ayin Press, 2025), and Light / Remains (Bored Wolves, 2024). She founded the Art + Ecology program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and helped start and run the backcountry artist residency Signal Fire. A 3G Jew and the daughter of immigrants, she is a diasporic student of the earth. Website: www.danielamolnar.com Instagram: @daniela_naomi_molnar Kaddish 9 Kaddish 2
Alice Stone-Collins
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Alice Stone-Collins Alice Stone-Collins is an artist living in Atlanta, GA where she is a faculty member at Georgia Gwinnett College. Her intricate hand-painted collages highlight the tensions between the mundane, the everyday, and the apparent dead. Alice earned her MFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee and has exhibited her work regionally and nationally. She has been a resident artist at KMAC (Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft) based out of Louisville, Kentucky and the David and Julia White Artists’ Colony in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica. Alice has been featured on Studio Break and The Artist/Mother Podcast, and her work was published as the cover art for Aurora, The Allegory Ridge Poetry Anthology. She was also a finalist for the Jean-Claude Reynal Scholarship, among other honors and awards. Statement: We are constantly coming home and leaving. We lose; we add; we change. There is a commonness and uniqueness of these experiences. Stale spaces—the mall parking lot, an empty community pool, a neighborhood cul-de-sac at dawn—are subjects that come to life by exploring their contrasting energies of boredom and beauty, stasis and comfort. Places close to home yet tinged with certain mythic qualities of wondering how you arrived here. These are the places my eyes have always been drawn to. And with an alert eye, I try to capture what is arriving and what is taking flight. Here, There Devils Details Maintain an Even Temperature
Rashad Ali Muhammad
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Rashad Ali Muhammad Rashad Ali Muhammad is a multidisciplinary collage artist known for creating vivid and captivating works reflecting the vast complexities of our human existence. With a formal graphic design and photography education, Muhammad blends his acquired skills to create art that fascinates and expands the mind. His love for innovation and continued experimentation fuels his whimsical and enchanting artistic sensibilities. He works primarily in mixed media analog and digital collage. For him, collage combines intention, investigation, and invention, dissecting established references and reassembling them to create new compelling visions. The limitless opportunities to incorporate unconventional elements fulfill his passion for exploration and continued learning. Muhammad’s ongoing journey to expand his emotional intelligence ignited his desire to explore the intricacies of the human experience — the expansive intersections that shape our lives and how we can relate to each other beyond the surface. As a queer, gender-nonconforming person of the African diaspora, he resonates with the ability to deconstruct and reform reality — a method of thinking and creation that can counter society’s hierarchies and binaries. Through his art, he cultivates open space for healing and rejuvenation from our chaotic world — where individuals can explore their authenticity through self-love, vulnerability, and connection. Muhammad is a resident artist at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA. His art has been exhibited extensively throughout the Washington Metropolitan area (DC, Maryland, Virginia) with various national and international exposures. Website: www.ramcreates.com Instagram: @ramcreates Noir
Anne-Sophie Balzer
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Anne-Sophie Balzer Anne-Sophie Balzer is a poet, journalist, translator, and PhD candidate in English Literature from Germany. She graduated from Humboldt University in Berlin, worked as a journalist for some years, then exchanged her career in Berlin for rural farm-life in Norway. Her plan to become an agrarian-poet and environmentalist, basically a modern Wendell Berry, didn’t quite work out in the end. What remained of this life is her persistent fondness for birds and composting, and for making her own yoghurt. Anne-Sophie lives and works in Germany but spent the fall semester of 2023 as a Fulbright visiting researcher at WSU. Her PhD is called Writing with Glaciers and interrogates contemporary North-American poetry about glaciers and the cryosphere. Poems of hers have appeared in Plant-Human Quarterly, Amberflora, Maiden Magazine, and Tilted House Review. Website: annesophiebalzer.com Instagram: @cryopoesis nothing is more sad than a waning moon
Sirka Elspass
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Sirka Elspass Sirka Elspaß, born in Oberhausen, Germany, in 1995, studied creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim and Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 2010 and 2011, she was winner at the Young Writer’s Conference (Treffen junger Autor:innen) and won the Postpoetry prize for young writers in 2013. Sirka co-edited BELLA triste (no. 41-45) which remains one of the most influential poetry magazines in German-speaking countries. Her work has been published in magazines and anthologies, including STILL, Edit, and Lyrik von Jetzt 3. The poetry collection ich föhne mir meine wimpern (i blow dry my eye lashes), published by Suhrkamp in 2022, is her debut and was shortlisted for the debut prize of the Austrian Book Prize 2022. Website: https://sirkaelspass.de/ Instagram: @sirkaelspass nothing is more sad than a waning moon
Sean Riley
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Sean Riley Sean Riley lives and works in Washington, DC. He received a BFA in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Northeast US. He has received grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and has been an artist in residence at the Joan Mitchell Center, Yaddo, and the Vermont Studio Center. His art and writing have been published in SHIFT, Open Doors Review, Heavy Feather Review, Gigantic Sequins, and Passengers Journal. More of his work can be seen at seanrileystudio.com and @studioseanriley. Website: seanrileystudio.com Instagram: @studioseanriley As Above
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i have two DNAs one belongs to my old by Romana Iorga self the other one is my sister’si don’t know how to write about illnessi write about fall fever & hopesomeone would read between the linesthere usually was someone who would check my pulse draw blood hookme up to an IV change my bedsheetswash the floor the toilet the sinkbring in the food close the blinds wipeoff my sick change my bedsheetstake the food out uneaten help meto the bathroom no modesty leftafter a while even when i wasdischarged what’s the point everyonehad seen everything i never feltmore unseen except that daysomeone stopped outside my reverseairflow room & peeked in she waspale she was old she was wearing allblack for a moment i thoughti was a goner then she moved on & ilived down the hallway someonecleaned out the room for a new patient Poetry Home Art by Morgan Auten-Smith
Anuradha Kumar
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Anuradha Kumar Anuradha (Anu) Kumar lives in New Jersey with her family. She lived in various places in India before moving to Singapore and later the US. She has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) and has degrees in history and management as well. Her stories have won awards from the Commonwealth Foundation, UK, and the Little Magazine, India. As Adity Kay, she wrote three bestselling works of historical fiction published by Hachette India: Emperor Chandragupta, Emperor Vikramaditya and Emperor Harsha. She writes regularly for Scroll.in. Her stories and essays have appeared in places like The Missouri Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, The Common, The Maine Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Litro magazine, South Dakota Review, The Dalhousie Review (Canada), and other places. She has written for younger readers as well. Her most recent novel is a work of historical mystery called, The Kidnapping of Mark Twain, published by Speaking Tiger Books, India, available as a paperback in South Asia, and digitally worldwide. Message in a Romance Novel