Seth Peterson 2025 Poetry Spring Contest Winner Through a shattering of light, a mermaid knuckles out to say goodbye. Flaps her eel-black fin. A wishing tree dangles its microphone limbs, listening....
“Extended Stay” Collage Kale Hensley is a West Virginian by birth and a poet by faith. They live in Texas with their wife, best friend, and a menagerie of clingy pets. You can find more...
Storyteller Digital collage Elzbieta Zdunek is a collage artist working in digital, mostly grayscale compositions. Her work explores alienation, identity, and the subjectivity of perspective shaped...
Tim Thiện Nguyễn Sông có khúc, người có lúc –a Vietnamese proverb It was not their fault / the aunties and uncles / Ba Mẹcoming here when / (insert your favorite...
All Eyez on Me Oil paint Cycles Oil paint Amuri Morris is an artist based in Richmond, VA. She recently graduated from painting and printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. Throughout the...
Interconnected Sand Watercolor Janelle Cordero is a poet, artist, and educator living in Spokane, Washington. Her writing has appeared in dozens of literary journals, including Driftwood Press, Jet...
LaTanya McQueen As the boy he was, a child who loved and was loved, and if only they’d seen him as this and not whatever it was they saw instead to warrant what they believed, maybe then they would...
Gnarly Tree at the Grand Canyon in Winter Sky Digital photography Michael C. Roberts is a retired professor of clinical child psychology, who painted rocks during the pandemic and dropped them around...
Dapples Photography Sophie Hoss is a New York writer who loves the ocean and is in bed by 9 pm every night. She has received a Pushcart Prize, and her words are scattered around in BOMB, The Baffler,...
Esther Ra 2025 Spring Contest Nonfiction Winner On the first day of Property class, we each filled out a survey describing our most valuable piece of property. Some write, My law degree. Others, My...
