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...
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...
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,...
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...
Walk Citrus Hand cut paper collage, mixed media Irakli Mirzashvili grew up in a family of visual artists in Tbilisi, country of Georgia, and enjoys working in oil pastels, creating collages, and...
Expression Watercolor and acrylic Victor Adebayo Meye is a visual artist renowned for his captivating and vibrant paintings. Based in Ogun City, Nigeria, Victor’s artistic expertise spans...
Gawad Elakkad Translated from the Arabic by Hazem Jamjoum & lisa minerva luxx Your fingers plunge into my palm swaying like gazelles in the forest of the mind I dream of them a...
“Welcome All Exiles” Acrylic, ink, graphite and thread on canvas A multi-disciplinary artist and first-generation Palestinian American, Samar Hussaini’s paintings and sculptures are...
Omar Khoury I pressed my nose upon my mother’s sleeve, the incense nestled within it, both welcoming and overwhelming. Her hair whips thin, their curls like cresting waves crashing upon themselves....
