SPRING 2024 ISSUE
The Spring 2024 Issue features work from 87 contributors from around the globe.
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Cover Artist
JOCELYN ULEVICUS
Jocelyn Ulevicus is an American artist, writer, and poet. Her work is either forthcoming or published in magazines such as SWWIM Every Day, The Laurel Review, The Free State Review, and elsewhere. Ulevicus is a Best of The Net, Best Poets, and two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her first collection of poems, The Difference Between Breathing and Swallowing, was recently published by Saturday Morning at the River Press. Ulevicus loves weight lifting, ice cream, and her favourite quality in a person is kindness to strangers and animals. You can follow her on Instagram @jocelyn.ulevicus.
Featured Artist
LISA JEAN
Lisa Jean’s work, from soft hues to vibrant and alive pieces, connects the viewer with a range of feelings and emotions. Creating began in early childhood, and continued to develop through personal endeavors, private lessons, and formal education. Jeans’ work is often fluid and created on a foundation of letting go, allowing, expanding, and opening. The ever-changing nature of the sky and earth’s water sources are a part of her inspiration. The pieces appearing in this issue are from her Solace Series. Her work can be viewed at LisaJeanArt.com, on Instagram @Lisajeangallery, or via www.saatchiart.com/l-jean.
Featured Poet
DEB BAKER
Deb Baker lives on the ancestral homeland of the Pennacook-Abenaki people, now called Concord, New Hampshire. A longtime poet, in 2021 she became a “COVID quitter,” resigning from an all-consuming job as a library director. She now works four days a week at a hospital, volunteers for faith and climate justice organizations, and writes. Her poems have appeared in journals including Bellevue Literary Review, Third Wednesday, Spire, Naugatuck River Review, Hawk & Whippoorwill, and Envoi. Since childhood, she has felt connected to her kin in creation, who appear along with her human relatives in many of her poems.
INSIDE THE ISSUE
SELECTED POETRY
"Flowers" by Jocelyn Ulevicus
"A Little Wild" by Lauren Carson
"Aegina, Greece" by Alison Reed
"Frosted" by Anastasia Noelle Pirri
"Cascadium" by Andrew Abraham
"Canyon Dusk" by Anna Lueck
"Sun & Shadow" by Anna Lueck
"Waxing" by Avery Timmons
"Taking Leave" by Debbie Strange
"Santa Elena Canyon" by Diane Elam
"Dahlia No. 3, Secret Life of Flowers" by Eileen Begley
"Shell Study" by Erin Kate Archer
"Dance of the Dryads" by Gerrie Paino
"Emergence" by Ian Wells
"Serene Tension" by Ian Wells
"Flower I" by James Vining
"Untitled" by Jennifer Collins
"The Night Garden" by Jill Bergman
"Blurred Lines" by Jocelyn Elizabeth
"Pink Renewal" by Jocelyn Elizabeth
"Here Come the Wildflowers" by Jocelyn Ulevicus
"Fill the Sky" by Judith Rayl
"Ripple Effect" by Katie Busick
"Where the Mermaids Dwell" by Kelly Schulze
"Yellow Persuasion" by Kelly Schulze
"Morning Gift" by Kelly Sculze
"Somewhere Tonight" by Kimber Devaney
"Clarity II" by Kristine Narvida
"Holga 7" by Libby Saylor
"Light in the Storm" by Lisa Jean
"Peace in Perspective" by Lisa Jean
"The Embrace" by Lisa Jean
"Archipelago III" by Zak Schafer
"Pieris Japonica" by Marcia Bilyk
"Marble Canyon, LeChee, Arizona" by Roger Camp
"Or Something Along Those Lines" by Natali Herrera-Pacheco
"Clarity III" by Kristine Narvida
"Blossoms in the Morning" by Sarah Hewitt
"Un Hilo Terco" by Natali Herrera-Pacheco
"Inkstone Starlight" by Ron C. Moss
"Archipelago VI" by Zak Schafer
"Abandoned & Forgotten" by Rosemary H. Williams
"Emerald Waters" by Rosemary H. Williams
"Engulfed IV" by Stephanie Hanlon
"Lights XIII" by Susanne Wurlitzer
"Infinity" by Tianming Zhou
"Wrapped in Comfort" by Lisa Jean
"Brugmansia Dreaming" by Tiara Safic-Martin
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CONTRIBUTORS
POETRY
Abby Harding
Allison C. Macy-Steines
Amy Ratto Parks
Andy Perrin
Arvilla Fee
Carrie Carter
Cecelia Shine
Christie Gardiner
Cristina Chaidez
Dawn Stoltzfus
Deb Baker
Djana Kolaj
E. D. Watson
Ed Meek
Elissa Greenwald
Elliott batTzedek
Gabriel Welsch
Geneva Toland
Hannah Neece
Jackie McClure
Jennifer Miller
John Nizalowski
J. R. Solonche
Karen Dennison
Kate Lab
Kathryn P. Haydon
Kathryn MacDonald
Katie Moino
Krissy Kludt
Linda Hamrick
Lindsay Rockwell
Mary Anne Abdo
Mary Kovaleski Byrnes
Melissa Laussmann
Nicholas Olah
Pauline Le Bel
Rachel Orta
Roberta Beach Jacobson
Ron C. Moss
Rosemary Wells
Sally Anderson Boström
Scott Berzon
Shane Coppage
Stephanie Ann Devito
Susan Ksiezopolski
Sylvia Sun
Tim Murphy
Walt McLaughlin
William Ryan
Yvette Neisser
ART
Alison Reed
Anastasia Noelle Pirri
Andrew Abraham
Anna Lueck
Avery Timmons
Debbie Strange
Diane Elam
Eileen Begley
Erin Kate Archer
Gerrie Paino
Ian Wells
James Vining
Jennifer Collins
Jill Bergman
Jocelyn Ulevicus
Jocelyn Elizabeth
Judith Rayl
Katie Busick
Kelly Schulze
Kevin Flynn
Kimber Devaney
Kristine Narvida
Lauren Carson
Libby Saylor
Lisa Jean
Marcia Bilyk
Natali Herrera-Pacheco
Roger Camp
Ron C. Moss
Rosemary H. Williams
Sarah Hewitt
Stephanie Hanlon
Susanne Wurlitzer
Tianming Zhou
Tiara Safic-Martin
Zak Schafer
PROSE
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