Dianne Cabelus Braley

“After we tear our masks off and breathe close, hands touching, where will we go?”

Ace Boggess

“I want this more than I ever wanted sex, money, or parole.”

Kenneth Pobo

“Are we sure we want to go there?”

Emily Farranto

Three drawings, colored pencil on paper 17x12 tiles.

Regina A. Bernard-Carreño

An author reflects on a moment to breathe, but finds herself unable to let go of the pain that left her breathless.

Join us on May 1 via Zoom to celebrate the first anniversary of 433.

Ann Kathryn Kelly

“I think about deaths around the world as I follow breadcrumbs to my door, crisscrossed coils dimpling a crusted surface with bird-like imprints. Fork tines in dough.”

Jason Schwartzman

“From far off, I see a solitary figure coming toward me – the distance gives us time to contemplate each other.”

Talking marginal interactions with strangers, the spirit of empathy, and Russian Proverbs with Jason Schwartzmann, author of NO ONE YOU KNOW

Somsubhra Banerjee

“I saw your kohl-lined eyes,
and those became my permanent address.”

Colby Applegate

“ I wish you could figure it out without hurting anyone else.”

Fabrice Poussin

Photographic studies in color and space.

Priya Kanayson

On an evening drive, the moon shines a new light on one traveller’s route.

Julia Beecher

“I thought that maybe I could hurt her so she would be in just the same amount of pain as me.”

Frank Karioris

Even in quarantine             
two people can walk the street together    
& share hands wrapped tightly.

Deryck Robertson

Yeah, sorry about that eye;      
the one that’s swelling shut. 

Shareen K Murayama

Laura Brzyski

“Arielle and I throw orange
slices behind Grammy’s couch.
She makes a mess, I think
of my cousin, even though I am
in on the crime. Guilty by participation.” 

Sasha Solano-McDaniel

“What I wanted was to bathe myself—to feel human. To sit outside and breathe fresh air. To scream or to cry, to savor those feelings. What I wanted was privacy and solitude. What I wanted was not visitors but certainty.”

Russell Willis

“When did we decide that
ideology should be allowed to trump
common sense, common decency,
common colds
uncommon – but not unexpected – pandemics?”