Now Available: In Parentheses Magazine (Volume 7, Issue 2) Fall 2021

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The Fall 2021 Edition of In Parentheses is now available on print and digital platforms! This issue is the second of Volume 7.

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In the Fall 2021 Edition, our 22nd release to date, we have featured the following esteemed contributors.

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Poetry

“Enchanted by Her,” “Nostalgic“ & “The Paradoxes Within Her” — Born and brought up in the beautiful landscapes of Bangladesh, Syeda Anika Mansur is currently studying Ba(Hon) in English Language and Literature. She finds solace in poetry and painting. Her poems recently got published in Wingless Dreamer for the first time. You can find her on Instagram at @hearthacker_anika. — 12

“Legoland,” “Deaths of Despair” & “Without Wind” — Michael E. Kreger is a poet, artist and educator living and working in Mexico City, Mexico and Denver, Colorado. Michael writes poetry that seeks to identify and examine the intersections of the many opposing forces in the world around (and within) us. He is on the Editorial Board at Twenty Bellows, a literary magazine focused on Colorado fiction, poetry and essays. Most recently, his poems can be found in High Shelf Press and the Broad River Review. Michael is currently completing work on his first full-length manuscript titled Apparition Field. — 13

“Visiting Winfield in My 30s” & “The Ghosts Still Live Here” — Durell Carter is a writer and a teacher that lives in Oklahoma. He recently graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma with a graduate degree in English. He has work published in From Whispers to Roars, Drunk Monkeys, Petrichor Journal, and others. durellcarter.org. — 14

“On Death” & “Reverie” — Melissa Ridley Elmes is a Virginia native currently living in Missouri in an apartment that delightfully approximates a hobbit hole. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Star*Line, In Parentheses, Gyroscope Review, Thimble Magazine, HeartWood Literary Magazine, The World of Myth, Spillwords and various other print and web venues, and her first collection of poems, Arthurian Things, was published by Dark Myth Publications in 2020. — 14

“Santa Fe Lullaby” & “Imagine Me A Lover” — Brian Yapko is a lawyer whose poems have appeared in multiple publications, including Prometheus Dreaming, Cagibi, Poetica, Grand Little Things, the Society of Classical Poets, Chained Muse, Tempered Runes, Garfield Lake Review, Sparks of Calliope, Abstract Elephant and others. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. — 15

“Epiphanies in the Year of the Swan” & “The Call” — Oisín Breen is a poet, academic, and financial journalist. Dublin-born Breen’s debut collection, ‘Flowers, all sorts in blossom …’ was released Mar, 2020. Breen is published widely, including in the Blue Nib, Books Ireland, The Seattle Star, Modern Literature, the Kleksograph, Kairos, The Bosphorus Review, La Piccioletta Barca and Dreich. — 18

“Another Word for Longing” & “What Do You Carry And Where in the Body” — Emi Bergquist is a Brooklyn based poet and performer originally from Idaho. Emi is an active associate of the Poetry Society of New York, and an editor of Milk Press Books. She has work published in What Rough Beast, Oxford Public Philosophy, Oroboro, Passengers Journal, For Women Who Roar, The Nervous Breakdown, Noctura Review, and others. — 19

“The Invisible Rider” — Dmitry Blizniuk is an author from Ukraine. His most recent poems have appeared in Poet Lore, The Pinch, Press53, Salamander, Grub Street,The Nassau Review, Havik, Naugatuck River, and many others. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he is also the author of The Red Forest (Fowlpox Press, 2018). He lives in Kharkov, Ukraine. Member of PEN America. — 20

“Why One Should Rarely Drink Tequila Before Bed,” “Last I Heard” & “Beach Snow” — Lorraine Henrie Lins,

Director of New and Emerging Poets with Tekpoet, is the author of four books of poetry, a Pennsylvania county Poet Laureate, and founding member of No River Twice, an improvisational poetry troupe. Lins’ poems have appeared widely, including on a small graffiti poster in New Zealand. — 21

“Queen of Scars” —Dawn Angelicca Barcelona is a Filipina-American poet based in San Francisco, originally from NJ. She is an alumna of Rutgers University and was a Fulbright Grantee to South Korea in 2014. She volunteers with the National Alliance on Mental Illness and helps organize the Kearny Street Workshop’s annual APAture Festival. — 21

“Roadside Distraction” & “The Unobserved” — James B. Nicola, a returning contributor, is the author of six collections of poetry, the latest being Fires of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense. His decades of working in the theater culminated in the nonfiction book Playing the Audience: The Practical Guide to Live Performance, which won a Choice award. — 21-22

“Strange Nuptials of Dust” & “Pilgrim” — Brian L. Jacobs resides with his husband in Los Angeles, California, has been teaching English thirty years and is working on his PhD. Brian was the assistant to Poet Allen Ginsberg while earning his MFA. During that time he walked half way around the world while on a peace pilgrimage. Brian is also a three time Fulbright Scholar, an NEH grant recipient, A Senior Fellow for Earthwatch and a poet. Brian has been published in several publications and is the editor of Tofu Ink Arts Press. — 23

“I Don’t Know How to Fit These Things Together,” “Gender is the Golden Calf,” “Jonah,” “Do All Lovers Feel as if They Are Inventing Something?” & “Garden Elegy” — Gillian Ebersole (they/she) is a dancer and writer who explores the embodied experience of queerness in her poetry and choreography. Their work explores queerness in relation to conservative religious upbringing. Gillian’s debut chapbook, The Water Between Us, won the Charlotte Mew Prize and was published by Headmistress Press in 2021. — 23-24

“Elephant Walking Up Our Street” — Joe Bisicchia writes of our shared dynamic. An Honorable Mention recipient for the Fernando Rielo XXXII World Prize for Mystical Poetry, his works have appeared in numerous publications with over 170 individual poems published. The collection widewide.world to unwind has been published by Cyberwit. His website is http://www.widewide.world — 24

“Lace” — Emma Wells has poetry published with and by: The World’s Greatest Anthology, The League of Poets, The Lake, The Beckindale Poetry Journal, Dreich Magazine, Drunken Pen Writing, Porridge Magazine, Visual Verse, Littoral Magazine, The Pangolin Review, Derailleur Press, Giving Room Magazine, Chronogram and
for the Ledbury Poetry Festival. She also has published a number of short stories and her first novel, Shelley’s Sisterhood, is due to be published shortly. — 25

“The Weight of Want” — Steve Gerson writes poetry and flash about life’s dissonance and dynamism. He’s proud to have published in Panoplyzine, Route 7, Poets Reading the News, Crack the Spine, Montana Mouthful, the Decadent Review, Indolent, Rainbow Poems, Snapdragon, the Underwood Press, Wingless Dreamer, Gemini Ink, the Dillydoun Review, In Parentheses, and more. — 26

“Why We March” — Nicole Farmer is a writer and teacher living in Asheville, NC. Her poems have been published in The Closed Eye Open, The Sheepshead Review, The Roadrunner Review, East by Northeast Lit. Review, Wild Roof Journal, Bacopa Literary Review, West Trade Review, The Great Smokies Review, Kakalak Review, 86 Logic, Wingless Dreamer and others. Her play 50 JOBS was produced in Los Angeles. Nicole has been awarded the First Prize in Prose Poetry from the Bacopa Literary Review, which will appear in Sept. 2021. Way back in the 90’s she graduated from The Juilliard School of Drama. You can find her dancing barefoot in her driveway on the full moon at midnight. — 26

“Night Music” & “Taste of Ginger” — Michael Ball scrambled from daily and weekly papers through business and technical pubs. Born in OK and raised in rural WV, he became more citified in Manhattan and Boston. As one of the Hyde Park Poets, he has moderate success placing poems in numerous online and print journals and anthologies. — 28

“All My Sad Captains” — Ben Macnair is an award-winning writer, poet, playwright and journalist from Staffordshire, in the West Midlands. Follow him on Twitter @benmacnair — 28

“Mount Royal Boulevard, 1966” — Hannah Allman Kennedy holds an MFA in creative writing from Carlow University. Her work is forthcoming in SHIFT and has appeared in Marathon Literary Review and The Watershed Journal. Her debut novel, And It All Came Tumbling Down, will be released November 2021. She lives and teaches writing in Pittsburgh. — 29

“Dust” & “Pale Ballerina” — N.T. Chambers has been an editor, educator, taxi driver, wine merchant, sales drone, pizza deliverer, bar tender – all of which led to a career as a professional counselor. Originally a Chicagoan, the author now lives and writes in the high desert of Arizona with an elderly bulldog named Shep. — 29

“Two” & “Five” — Haley Wooning lives in California where she works as a behavioral therapist and writes poetry. — 30

“Regards” & “Negligence 2.0” — Radoslav Rochallyi is a poet, essayist, and interdisciplinary artist. He is the author of eight books of poetry. His work has been featured in Variant Literature Journal (North Carolina, USA: Variant Literature Inc.), Havik 2020: Homeward- The Las Positas College Journal of Arts and Literature (CA, USA: The Las Positas College), Cyber Smut (London, United Kingdom: Guts Publishing), Outside the Box (Illinois, USA: Scars Publications), MAINTENANT 14-Contemporary Dada Art & Writing (New York, USA: Three Rooms Press) — 30-31

“The World Grows Smaller” & “Broken Music Gathers Lost Chords” — Eugene Stevenson, son of immigrants, father of expatriates, lives in the mountains of North Carolina. His chapbook, The Population of Dreams, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. His poems have appeared in Angel City Review, The Hudson Review, Loch Raven Review, San Pedro River Review, Tipton Poetry Journal among others. — 31

“Just Around the Corner” & “Acquiescence” — R.T. Notaro is a news photographer/writer/producer, currently working in Philadelphia. When not writing R.T. can be found cooking, reading or trying to improve on guitar. R.T. writes on a variety of topics. Recently published: Santa Clara Review, Progenitor Art and Literary Journal and The Antonym Magazine. — 32

“The High Jump Fraternization” & “Apricot Bouncing” — Jacqueline Schaalje has published short fiction and poetry in the Massachusetts Review, Talking Writing, Frontier Poetry, Grist, Six Sentences, among others. Her stories and poems were finalists for the Epiphany Prize, in the Live Canon and New Guard Competitions. She has received scholarships at the Southampton Writers Conference, the Poetry School and the International Women’s Writing Guild. She is a member of the Israel Association for Writers in English, and the current co-editor of arc, the Israeli literary magazine for writers in English. She earned her MA in English from the University of Amsterdam. She lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. — 33

“A Day in Seogwipo” — Ravichandra Chittampalli retired as Chair, Department of English, University of Mysore. He was the Northrop Frye Fellow at University of Toronto. His poems have been published by In Parentheses, The Sunday Mail, Lakeview, Otherwise Engaged, Aloe, Dreich, Havik, and Dillydoun Review. He now lives in Malaysia practising poetry in English. — 36

“Plenty,” “Smells” & “Baby Show” — Best of the Net nominee, Rich Glinnen, enjoys bowling, and eating his daughter’s cheeks at his home in Bayside, NY. His work can be read in various print and online journals, as well as on his Tumblr and Instagram pages. His wife calls him Ho-ho. — 36

“Vizcaya” & “Villanelle” — Peter Cabrera is a South Florida poet and graduate of Cape Coral Technical College.. Additionally, Peter has a publication in The Finger Magazine and 2 Meter Review and mostly, Peter Cabrera is an artist, trying to save the world one word at a time. — 37

“The Little Girl in Me,” “Lightning in Her Fibers” & “The Matron’s Rise” — Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and many other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications. — 38

“The Cowboy” — Thomas Benstead is a recent graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School. His work has been published by the Society of Classical Poets, In Parentheses, and Torrid Literature Journal. He lives in Toronto, Canada. — 39

“Scars Where Nothing Happened” & “Weed Garden” — Joseph Kerschbaum’s recent publications include Mirror Box (Main St Rag Press, 2020) and Distant Shore of a Split Second (Louisiana Literature Press, 2018). Joseph
has received grants from the NEA and Indiana Arts Commission. His work appears widely in print and online journals. Joseph lives in Indiana with his family. — 40

“Kindred Reckoning” & “Dining With Parents” — Rikki Santer’s work has appeared in various publications including Ms. Magazine, Poetry East, Slab, Slipstream, [PANK], Crab Orchard Review, RHINO, Grimm, Hotel Amerika and The Main Street Rag. Santer has received many honors including five Pushcart and three Ohioana book award nominations as well as a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. A tenth collection, How to Board a Moving Ship, is forthcoming this fall by Lily Poetry Review Books. — 41

“Solitude” & “Finding the Self” — Jaganmayi Himamshu has a passion to express the divine creativity through the field of Arts such as painting, sketching, sculpting, and poetry. Jaganmayi writes simply for the love of it. She holds a Master’s degree in Animation from SCAD, Georgia, and Bachelors degree in Computer Science. — 41

“No Hope in Nature” & “Curfew” — Phillipe Martin Chatelain is the Managing Editor of In Parentheses. He is
a poet from New York City with a Masters Degree in Poetry from The New School. He writes as someone in
the tradition of the urban troubadour or the flaneur–wandering, taking notes. He believes that poetry of our generation has taken on a much more digital definition. Furthermore, it is important for New Modernist writers like those exhibited in In Parentheses Literary Magazine to assume the forms of media available in order to carry on the history of Sublime Art. His series taking shots alone was self-published in 2012-2015. The self-published collection FACETS (2019) is now available. @philo.den — 44-45

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Long Form & Prose

“Orange Flames” — Jacqueline Schaalje has published short fiction and poetry in the Massachusetts Review, Talking Writing, Frontier Poetry, Grist, Six Sentences, among others. Her stories and poems were finalists for
the Epiphany Prize, in the Live Canon and New Guard Competitions. She has received scholarships at the Southampton Writers Conference, the Poetry School and the International Women’s Writing Guild. She is a member of the Israel Association for Writers in English, and the current co-editor of arc, the Israeli literary magazine for writers in English. She earned her MA in English from the University of Amsterdam. She lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. — 46

“Whatever A Sun Will Always Sing” — Talya Tavor is an activist and artist. She has directed campaigns at the local, national, and international level to transition away from fossil fuels and towards a clean, just energy future. Talya is a published author, her book of non-fiction, The Campaigns Advocacy Manual teaches people how to run and win their own campaign. In her spare time, Talya is a performing folk and dirty-blues singer- songwriter, her album Tavor was published in 2017, and she writes flash fiction, is the managing director at a teaching improv theater, performs improv, and is currently working on her first novel. — 47-48

“The Boy Who Found a Laser Gun” — Alzo David-West studied art, literature, and philosophy in the United States and Switzerland. He writes mundane fiction, speculative fiction, and poetry. His most recent works of fiction appear in Abstract Magazine, Barzakh, Offcourse, and 365 Tomorrows. Author’s Note: With acknowledgment to the work of George Lafia and Michael Miner. I thank Professor Miner for approving this loose adaptation. — 49-50

“Don’t Trust the Dark” — Rachel Racette, born 1999, in Balcarres, Saskatchewan. Raised by a loving family of book lovers and nerds. Lives to create her own worlds and characters and loves writing science-fiction and fantasy. She has always loved books of fantasy and science fiction as well as comics. Lives with an overactive imagination that fills her head with universes she wants to share with the world, and her cat Cheshire, who likes to lean against her laptop too much. Published works include the anthology; The Spelunkers: A Chipper Press Anthology, Arthropod Literary Journal Issue 1, Underwood Press Online Journal, The Showbear Family Circus. — 51-52

“Sunblock” — L. E. Yates was born in Manchester in 1981 but now lives in east London. She’s interested in the imaginative loophole fiction creates out of the contract of everyday life. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and has been awarded Arts Council England funding. Her work has appeared in anthologies from Parenthesis to Dead Languages. Her most recent short stories can be found in Clav Mag (https://www.clavmag.com/queerreads/cheating-is-sexier) and the Mechanics’ Institute Review (http:// mironline.org/theopposite/). When not writing, she works for the University of Oxford on a science research project and enjoys wild swimming and gardening. — 52-56

“Hydra” — Before moving to Oklahoma, T. R. Fall wrote professionally in L.A., selling two half-hour pilots to ABC, developing many other pilots and screenplays, and as a staff writer on series for WB and TBS. As an actor he appeared as a series regular on three network sitcoms, and in numerous film and TV roles. Fall holds an MFA in creative writing from Oklahoma City University’s Red Earth Creative Writing Program. He is at work on a novel, Giants Roam the Earth. He writes full time, teaches the occasional workshop, and still acts in local-hire film roles. He used to travel more.— 59-63

“Dawn of Arthur” — David McVey lectures in Communication and Literature at New College Lanarkshire in Scotland. He has published over 120 short stories and a great deal of non-fiction that ranges from journalism to academic papers and from historical and literary research to a regular column in a football (ie, soccer) match programme. He enjoys hillwalking (ie, hiking), visiting historic sites, reading, watching telly (ie, TV), and supporting his home-town football (yes, soccer) team, Kirkintilloch Rob Roy FC. — 63-64

“House Visit” — Christopher S. Bell is a writer and musician. His work has recently appeared in Virtual Zine, Humble Pie, Solar Journal and The Evening Street Review. His latest collection of short fiction Double Feature is out now. He currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. — 64-65

“Teratoma” — Kellene O’Hara is currently pursuing her MFA in Fiction at The New School. Her writing has been published in The Fourth River, Marathon Literary Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter @KelleneOHara and online at kelleneohara.com. — 65-66

“Passing Timepiece” — Maudie Ainsworth is currently unemployed in New Orleans, LA. She has an undergraduate degree in Creative Writing with a minor in Modern Arabic Studies from Concordia University in Montreal, QC. Admirer of the Oulipo movement with their seemingly never-ending ideas to constrict form and bring about a greater sense of play to writing, she enjoys a good prompt. She enjoys the way a new perspective can bring about surreal twists to average ideas. A rum distiller and writer, she’s been writing poetry and prose in her newfound time and working out how to balance art and pursuits of making money. — 66-68

“California Sunshine” — B. R. Lewis earned his MFA at the Inland Northwest Center for Writers. He served as an editor for both Willow Springs and Sundog Lit. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Tribute to Orpheus 2, Gold Man Review, Cagibi, HASH, and Drunk Monkeys. He currently lives in Roseburg, OR, where he teaches at Umpqua Community College. — 71-75

“In the Colorado Desert, the Normal Rules of Civilization No Longer Apply” — D. Seth Horton’s work has appeared in around forty publications, including the Michigan Quarterly Review and Glimmer Train. Two of his stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He co-edited the anthology series, Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. His latest book was an anthology, Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest, which was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2018. His new book, On a NASA Flight to Heaven, is currently under review. He teaches creative writing and American literature at the University of Virginia. — 75-78

“My Least Favorite Part” — Daniel Deisinger lives in Minnesota and writes for work and fun. His work has appeared in over twenty publications, including Havik, White Wall Review, Castabout Literature, Defenestration Magazine, and Ripples in Space. His serial Voices in My Head is on Kindle Vella. His twitter is @Danny_ Deisinger, and his website is saturdaystory-Time.weebly.com. — 78-80

“The Portraits” — Eric Duran-Valle is a writer from and based in Nevada. He holds a BA in English and his writing has been published by the Nevada Humanities and in The Colored Lens. The most valuable thing he owns is an original light bulb from the Welcome to Las Vegas Sign. — 80-82

“Pretty in Pink” — Travis Stephens is a tugboat captain who resides with his family in California. An alumni of University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, recent credits include: 2River, Sheila-Na-Gig, Hole in the Head Review, GRIFFEL, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Visit him at: zolothstephenswrites.com — 82-85

“Retribution” — Kris Green lives in Florida with his wife and one-year-old son, Tennyson James. He had my first short story published in 2018 through Morpheus Tales. Last year, He was a finalist for the Chester B. Himes Memorial Fiction Contest. This year, he has published a short story, Power in the summer edition of Flume with The Haberdasher: Peddlers of Literary Art. — 88-91

“A Sixty-Year-Old Fairy” — Haripriya T.K. is a Busker from Kerala. She is one of a very few women who got into Busking as a passion. She is an independent busker as well as a busker under Busking Kochi, brotherhood. She is currently working as the chess coach at Park Global School at Coimbatore. She is a Literature postgraduate student. She is also working on her debut novel and also does busking, online. — 94-95

“Where We Sat” — Rebecca Adele is a creative writer and artist with a BA in English from CSU Channel Islands. She has written many short stories and poems centered around family and relationships. Her latest poem You Told Me was published in the Channel Islands literary journal The Island Fox. Originally from the Bay Area, she currently resides in Southern California working on a collection of short stories. In her spare time she enjoys photography, reading, painting, and recording her film podcast The Totally Inexpert, Expert Film Podcast. You can also learn more about her and her creative works on her website rebecca-adele.com. — 95-97

“Craving” — Frank Zhou is a 17-year-old high school senior at Phillips Academy Andover, where he is Editor- in-Chief of the campus literary magazine and leads several environmental advocacy initiatives. His Chinese- English translations appear in the Chinese Film Classics Project at the University of British Columbia. When he’s not waist-deep in Chinese novels, he’s an A-list smoothie enthusiast and loves a good black raspberry smoothie! — 100-101

“Donna and the Cats” — Dave Barrett lives and writes out of Montana. His fiction has appeared most recently in New Reader Magazine, The William and Mary Review and fresh.ink. His novel Gone Alaska was recently published by Adelaide Books. His micro-story The Hummingbird Cafe appears in the Summer 2021 issue of Thimble Lit. He teaches writing at Missoula College and is at work on a new novel. — 102

“The Watchman” — Adhiraj Kashyap is a 26 year old boy hailing from the city of Guwahati, Assam (India). He is professionally a filmmaker and is currently studying Film Direction and Screenplay Writing at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). His interest in literature has grown with time and the format of short fiction has always attracted his attention more than anything else. One of his short stories The School Function has been published in the magazine Indian Ruminations. — 103-106

“Skipping Stones” — Alex Moore writes creative nonfiction, fiction, and occasionally screenwriting. She’s been published in The Meadow, The Hurricane Review, and Wanderlust: A Travel Journal. She’s a member of the Green Mountain Writers Group and the Burlington Writer’s Workshop. Currently, she’s working on two books about her experiences working and living abroad. — 107-108

“Life Seeps” — David Grubb, a retired Coastguard Warrant Officer, has creatively written since childhood, yet career/family always came first. He’s changing that aspect of life and loving every minute. His work appears in Touchstone, Toasted Cheese, 1:1000, Sixfold.org, The Elevation Review, Every Day Fiction, The Abstract Elephant, The Bookends Review, Wingless Dreamer, In Parentheses’ blog, Havik, Novus, Ab Terra Flash Fiction, The Dead Mule School, ShowBear Family Circus, & the 2021 winner of the Col. Darron L. Wright Award (veteran entry). http://www.agrubbylife.com — 109

“Feast Days” — Joseph Hardy is one of a handful of writers that live in Nashville, Tennessee, that does not play a musical instrument; although a friend once asked him to bring his harmonica on a camping trip so they could throw it in the fire. He is the author of a book of poetry, The Only Light Coming In. — 109

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Multimedia

“Peggy Sue,” “New Kid In Town” & “Johnny B Good” — GJ Gillespie is a collage artist living on Whidbey Island north of Seattle. Winner of 18 awards, his art has appeared in 54 shows and numerous publications — including three pieces chosen as journal covers since May 2021. The artists he admire tap unconscious feelings of longing for existential meaning that emerge from cultural icons. In his view abstraction should be more than pleasing design. Instead, art should evoke connotations that permit the viewer to experience a sense of wonder, awe and new perspectives of being. A favorite quote: The world is but a canvas to our imagination. — Henry David Thoreau. — Cover, 17, 18

“Couch,” “Bees Nest” & “Amazon River” — Guilherme Bergamini is a Brazilian reporter, visual artist, and photographer who has been awarded in national and international competitions and has participated
in collective exhibitions in 44 countries. For more than two decades, he has developed projects with photography and the various narrative possibilities that art offers. His works dialogue between memory and social political criticism. Bergamini believes in photography as the aesthetic potential and transforming agent of society. — 8-9, 56-57, 58-59

Abstract Portraits — Hanna Marie Dean Wright is a self taught artist residing in Keavy, Kentucky. She uses her experiences from growing up in rural South-Eastern Kentucky, teaching special education classes, and living with obsessive compulsive disorder to inspire her unique works of art. Hanna Wright uses bold lines and bright colors to create abstract figures with relatable and at times deeply emotional expressions. Hanna was born in Barbourville, Kenucky on April 15th, 1993. Hanna graduated from the University of the Cumberlands in 2015 with degrees in Special Education Behavioral Disabilities and Elementary Education. — 17, 70, 110

“A Modern Frankenstein,” “The Secret Place 2” & “Obsession” — Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, The Door Is a Jar, The Phoenix, and other journals. Edward is also a published poet. — 18-19, 34-35, 98-99

“Close,” “Fragment” ”Within” — Nazrene Alsiro is an Artist located in Atlanta, GA. Her interdisciplinary work is rooted in her studies of Photography, Video and Sculpture at Florida State University. Much of her work is drawn to the gaps between mental health and societal normalcy. Personal in nature, her work is also reflective of both her mixed-race, as well as, her Palestinian-American identity, addressing the turmoil in the West Bank. Nazrene continues her search for the unidentifiable through exploration, observation, and experience. — 27, 43, 44-45

“Inner Orchid,” “Madam Melting Flower” & “Lounging Doppelgänger” — Based in Borrego Springs, artist Robin Young has been working in mixed media since her youth, focusing mostly on collage and contemporary art making. Her focus on collage art using magazine clippings, masking tape, wallpaper, jewelry, feathers,
foil etc. allows her to develop deep into the whimsical and intuitive compositions she is known for. From large, life-sized pieces and 3D sculptures to small postcard-sized arrangements, Robin’s keen eye and gripping esthetic guide her viewers into her own semi-readymade world. Repurposing these nostalgic images for lighthearted and sometimes disquieting messages; Robin’s artistic universe is strange, funky, sometimes perverse and always alluring. — 69

From “Balance and Disorientation” — Rick Rider has no formal artistic training, but has always dabbled in photography, sketching, collage, and assemblage as creative outlets throughout childhood, K – Grad School, the Navy, and various project management and writing careers. He began seriously making cut and torn paper collages in the early 1990’s, inevitably starting with surrealism. Kurt Schwitter’s small Merz collages were a major influence that led his work into abstraction. Since his retirement on the day Maryland clamped down on COVID he’s had time to create and populate Tumblr blogs as ways to share his past and ongoing artistic efforts with a wider audience. — 86-87, 92-93, 112

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