Priyanka Srivastava

“my mind longs
for rose butter hand cream 
abandoned in the drawer.”

Eziafakaego Brenda Nwafor

I'll use this knife,
cut out my face,
love handles and flaccid thighs

Constantine Jones

“I will not
scan the surf
for you or
your feathers.”

Asya Stepnova

“Our journeys, disconnected by distance,
run like veins coursing blood
through the maps of a sick and dying world”

Linda McMullen

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Jessie Caitlin Bullard

“when death & pain are inevitable
in a film, i always find myself
looking out for the animals”

Surina Venkat

“She shed her clothes like snakeskin, stumbled behind the curtain to mix her tears with water.”

Iliana Aragón

A photographer shares some moments from “la Pura Vida.”

Ann Kathryn Kelly

“To sprout wings, to join them in their escape from here to anywhere, remains a daydream.“

Samantha Jade Remigio

I pass the fence,
a tower with a guard,
the circular barbed wire,
the countless faces that must be inside

Kelly Esparza

With everything slowed down to such a glacial rate, Kelly Esparza sits on her porch and grows at the pace of nature.

Lynsey Giardina

A strike in the vulva. The scarred tissue
pulls on those strands.

Nicholas Morea

“Cages come in all shapes
Isolated from others, cut them off to cope.
Climb far away, away from here.”

AM Kamaal

I believe I saw my private God:
Imageless like the wind, sabotaging the crude gait
Of slim doubt, slipping from one country
Of my indifferent body       into another.

We’ve received some amazing art and photography, and have been meaning for some time to create a gallery that highlights all of this work in one place. Now, we’ve finally put it together, and it feels so fantastic to see it all in one place!

Barsha Kumari

"What is beautiful, if not the core of ugly?" 

Stephen Jackson

“in blind-slanted sun other books wait on shelves,     
perhaps for someone else to come and read them.”

Elizabeth Pattee Eklund

Before Covid, she worked a classically trained singer and voice coach. Now, her newfound spare time has led her to devise a new way to share music: neighborhood DJ.

Charlotte Bunney

A gallery of art reflecting on nature, the classical world, and the exhausting melancholy of 2020.

Kirsten Renau

The average giraffe heart weighs approximately twenty-five pounds.