SPRING 2025 ISSUE
The Spring 2025 Issue of Humana Obscura features work from 63 contributors from around the globe, including cover art by Caroline Brown, back cover art by Maureen Bennett, interviews with artists Lisa Cassell-Arms and Rick Bogacz, and spotlights on the work of photographer Stéphanie Labé and poet Hilda Weiss.
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featured contributors
cover artist
CAROLINE BROWN
Caroline Brown is a documentary style photographer capturing visual narratives of the world around her. Brown’s photography has been exhibited at the San Diego Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the State Museum of Pennsylvania, and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, and other locations. She has received over 25 awards for her photography and is widely published in health care and photographic publications. Learn more at www.CarolineEBrownPhotography.com and connect with her at @cebfotos and @cebfotosbyhand.
featured artist
STÉPHANIE LABÉ
Stéphanie Labé lives in the south of France. She has always been attracted to creativity. She wrote books, created scenographies for museums, and led innovation workshops. She has been practicing photography for 30 years for pleasure and since 2022 as part of an artistic approach. Having a strong sensitivity to nature, she seeks beauty in the delicacy of a flower or the poetry of a flight of birds. Very inspired by the sobriety of Asian art, she leaves a lot of space for emptiness and values beauty in simplicity. The images appearing in Humana Obscura are part of her ongoing series “Inner Worlds.” Connect with her on Instagram @steph_labe.
featured poet
HILDA WEISS
Hilda Weiss is a poet and the co-founder/curator for www.Poetry.LA, a website featuring videos of poets and poetry venues in Southern California. Her poetry manuscript, Seemingly Normal, was a finalist in the National Federation of State Poetry Societies competition. She has a chapbook, Optimism About Trees, and has been published in Bicoastal Review, Rattle, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Poemeleon, and Anti-Heroin Chic among others. A fourth generation Californian, she lives, writes and grows her own vegetables in a garden full of native California plants. Photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher.
INSIDE THE ISSUE
SELECTED POETRY
INTERVIEWS
LISA CASSELL-ARMS
Photographer
RICK BOGACZ
Photographer
"Feather by Feather" by Caroline Brown
"First Moments" by Caroline Brown
"New Buds II" by Lisa Cassell-Arms
"Amelanchier" by Lisa Cassell-Arms
"Emergence" by Lisa Cassell-Arms
"Wild Blue Phlox" by Lisa Cassell-Arms
"Rocks in the Water" by Rick Bogacz
"Adrift" by Alexandra Karnasopoulos
"Scape" by Alexandra Karnasopoulos
"Temple Lotus" by Alexandra Karnasopoulos
"Corrective Experience" by Amber Lauder
"After the Rainstorm" by Amy Aiken
"Gratitude" by Amy Aiken
"Harmony" by Amy Aiken
"Back of the Boat" by Carlin McCarthy
"Blessing" by Elizabeth Barlow
"Garden of Imagination" by Eric Brunet
"First Shot, 35mm" by Ian Parker
"Sea Stack and Wave" by Ian Parker
"Frozen Bluebonnets" by Jaimie Ladysh
"Burst" by Jason Dean
"Growing" by Jason Dean
"Home We Fly" by Jason Dean
"Mystical Morning Beckons" by Marianne Smith Dalton
"Dawn" by Marlow Emerson
"Meditations VI" by Marlow Emerson
"Mediations VIIII" by Marlow Emerson
"Amaryllis Illuminated" by Maureen Bennett
"Essential Beauty V" by Michael C. Roberts
"Late Winter Flowers" by Michael V. Tulloch, Jr.
"Findhorn Bay Forest" by Najib Joe Hakim
"Wildflowers Sunset" by Najib Joe Hakim
"45 Degrees South" by Retura Claar
"Glacial Daydream" by Retura Claar
"Fleeting Memory" by Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig
"Purity" by Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig
"Starlings Show" by Shamani Surendran
"Inner Worlds I" by Stéphanie Labé
"Inner Worlds XVI" by Stéphanie Labé
"Inner Worlds XXIV" by Stéphanie Labé
"Thors Helmet Nebula" by Stuart Trenholm
ISSUE #12
CONTRIBUTORS
POETRY
Abigail Sims
Andrew Bashford
Anni Rannisto
Binx River Perino
Brook J. Sadler
C.X. Turner
Debbie Robson
Debbie Strange
Devin Wilson
Diane Perazzo
dl mattila
Ellen Doré Watson
Frances Scott
Herb Tate
Hilda Weiss
Hudson Plumb
Jacob Friesenhahn
Jenny Ward Angyal
Jesse Breite
Joanne Esser
Joshua St. Claire
Karen Kilcup
Karen McAferty Morris
Kathleen McTigue
Kathryn P. Haydon
Kristine Amundrud
Lacy Benton
Laura Keeling
Liza Moore
LJ Ireton
Melissa Dennison
Phillip Sterling
Rashmi Vesa
Sam Aureli
Shane Coppage
Shannon Cates
Stella Damarjati
Stephanie Lee Evans
Tammy Trusheim-Rahmiller
Will Kimbrough
ART
Alexandra Karnasopoulos
Amber Lauder
Amy Aiken
Carlin McCarthy
Caroline Brown
Elizabeth Barlow
Eric Brunet
Ian Parker
Jaimie Ladysh
Jason Dean
Lisa Cassell-Arms
Marianne Smith Dalton
Marlowe Emerson
Maureen Bennett
Michael C. Roberts
Michael V. Tulloch, Jr.
Najib Joe Hakim
Retura Claar
Rick Bogacz
Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig
Shamani Surendran
Stéphanie Labé
Stuart Trenholm