WINTER 2024 ISSUE
The Winter 2024 Issue features work from 44 contributors from around the globe, including cover art by Maggie Lerum, an interview with artist Sally Podmore, and spotlights on the work of photographer Jason Dean and poet Alison Granucci. Available now in print and digital formats.
DIGITAL
EDITION
PRINT
EDITION
featured contributors
cover artist
MAGGIE LERUM
When Maggie Lerum is not writing, rifling through books at the library, or rock climbing, she’ll stop for a photo of anything that catches her eye, usually something she stumbles upon outdoors, mostly mushrooms and other odd formations. She has yet to capture a non-blurry animal, they’re too fast! Her flash fiction piece “Nightlight Wargames” was featured in Issue #19 (Winter 2022) of Sky Island Journal and her photograph “Reflection” was published in Issue 9 (Spring 2024) of Humana Obscura.
featured artist
JASON DEAN
Jason Dean is a lifelong Michigander currently based out of Marquette. Dean is a perpetually curious human who looks to share the beauty and wonder of the world around him by exploring textures, shapes, and patterns through photography. The best way to contact him is by e-mail, wavesarewords@gmail.com. Learn more on his website, thejasondean.com, and connect with him on Facebook @thejasondean and Instagram @the_jason_dean.
featured poet
ALISON GRANUCCI
Alison Granucci is a Pushcart-nominated poet and naturalist living in the Hudson Valley. Founder and president emeritus of Blue Flower Arts literary speaker’s agency, her work is published or forthcoming in RHINO, Pangyrus, Terrain.org, Tupelo Quarterly, About Place Journal, Connecticut River Review, Great River Review, Subnivean, EcoTheo Review, Crosswinds, Humana Obscura, The Dewdrop, and an anthology Little by Little, the Bird Builds its Nest. Her essay “Teacher Bird” was a nonfiction finalist in phoebe: a journal of literature and art. Granucci serves as a reader for The Rumpus and is at work on her first collection.
INSIDE THE ISSUE
SELECTED POETRY
ALISON GRANUCCI
LINDSAY ROCKWELL
D. DINA FRIEDMAN
"Iced" by Maggie Lerum
"Christmas Remains Special" by Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig
"Ancient Giants" by Lucía Tartaglione
"Gentle Flame Exhaled" by Jason Dean
"Sunrise Ripples" by Jason Dean
"Witnesses" by Jason Dean
"Desert" by Lucie Bonvalet
"Looking East" by Kathleen Christensen
"The Story" by Kathleen Christensen
"December Skies" by Susan Marsh
"Winter Day" by Susan Marsh
"Echoes" by Amy Aiken
"Memory" by Amy Aiken
"Reformation" by Amy Aiken
"Sumptuous Respite" by Cristina Sanchez
"Dawn Colors" by Holly Willis
"Intimacy" by Anne Kulou
"Letting Go" by Anne Kulou
"After the Thunder" by Sally Podmore
"Mt. Cain" by Sally Podmore
"Winter Wonder" by Sally Podmore
"Featherweight" by Debbie Strange
"Odell" by Sarah Hewitt
"Ice Covered Rocks at Sunnyside Beach, Toronto" by Rick Bogacz
"Nestled" by Wendi Schneider
"Shades of White I" by Karin Wegmann
"Silence I" by Karin Wegmann
"Silence II" by Karin Wegmann
"Stalactite" by Lucía Tartaglione
"Mr. Fox" by Dani Selyebi
ISSUE #11
CONTRIBUTORS
POETRY
Abby Harding
Alison Granucci
C.X. Turner
D. Dina Friedman
Dawn Erickson
Debbie Strange
Deirdre Hennings
Doug Stone
Hilda Weiss
Janet Ruth Heller
Jenny Ward Angyal
Jonny Rodgers
Kathryn P. Haydon
Lindsay Rockwell
Luke Levi
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Randy Brooks
Rebecca Weil
Robert René Galván
Sally Arapari
Sean Felix
Shane Coppage
Stella Damarjati
Tim Dwyer
Victoria Bracher
Walter Heinemen
ART
Amy Aiken
Anne Kulou
Cristina Sanchez
Debbie Strange
Holly Willis
Jason Dean
Karin Wegmann
Kathleen Christensen
Lucía Tartaglione
Lucie Bonvalet
Maggie Lerum
Rick Bogacz
Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig
Sarah Hewitt
Sally Podmore
Dani Selyebi
Susan Marsh
Wendi Schneider
PROSE
Civil Winters