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Volume 33: 2022-2023

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POETRY

When I Was Young

Emily Workman

"I left first. Said my goodbyes..."
A digital illustration in which a blonde woman and a gray cat look at each other from opposite ends of a table. The woman leans, grinning, across the table. She uses one outstretched hand to push a can of fish and a plush mouse toy towards the cat. The wall behind the two figures is decorated with framed pictures of the cat.

Clockbeat

Andrew Hodge

"Serenaded by the faint, hollow tick..."
A drawing of a furry brown squirrel with a fluffy tail, standing on his hind legs on a branch. The squirrel is looking up at a nude fairy with wings and pale skin. The fairy is petting the nose of the squirrel.

Curses

Riley James Nold

"Woe upon Mother Nature, that beautifully ambiguous pedagogue..."

Globe

Riley James Nold

"There sits a globe on my bookshelf, across from my bed..."

Bonfire

Riley James Nold

"Barren roads, burning sand and sawdust mix..."

Shower Mold

Bianca McCarty

"When Sarah pours the Drain-O down the shower drain, I wish..."
Drawing/Illustration. Sketches of Faces on colored circles. Multiple pen-sketched circles with plain faces, all of various colors. Not all circles have faces and they are all of different sizes.

Sand

Dawson Wilcox

"How quickly our shoes wear. How quickly we lose..."
This is an illustration done in black ink of a sunflower that is bent over a watering can. There are petals falling off of the flower and they are going into the watering can. They are both positioned on a hill with the flower on the left and the watering can on the right of the image. The flower is also larger than the watering can.

Between Soil and Sky

Cassie Montgomery

"My father died with his fingers curled around his Bible, like he didn't expect..."
A collection of four porcelain cups created using slip-casing and 3D modeling. One smaller cup sits in the foreground while three taller cups of the same size sit behind it. The rims of the cups are seven-sided polygons which appear to rotate the length of one side as the walls approach the base of the form. Three cups, including two tall cups and the one short cup, are glazed in a translucent green color, with blue crystals forming along the lines of the cups and within certain thicker areas of glaze. The final large cup is a deep cholate brown. On this cup, dark blue crystals creep out from the lines within the cup, turning to white at the edges.

Fertile Soils

Kathleen Kelley

"You've spoiled me, but not in any way that matters..."
A figure study of a nude person rendered in green, yellow, and blue crayon. The figure's feet are towards the bottom of the page and appear closest to the viewer, with the figure appearing to be reclined backwards away from the viewer and towards the upper left corner. The shading is realistic, giving the figure a distinct volume, but the arrangement of the limbs is contorted. Combined with the vibrant color choices, the contorted limbs give the overall image a surreal quality.

Milk

Emily Workman

"Her soft, warm body cradling the naked babe..."

To Be

Bianca McCarty

"To learn you are inconsequential is rite, one of passage and leaving..."

The Hypothetical Bias of Change

Bennett Ogle

"You point a gun at me. Can I pull the trigger? Save yee..."

The Hideous Art of Unbecoming

Mo Alnaham

"I was told to be wary of the tree of heavy hearted vision..."
A drawing depicts a woman's disembodied head in front of a white full moon against a black sky. The woman's head is tilted approximately forty-five degrees clockwise and casts a shadow on the left side of the moon. Her face is predominantly dark gray. She is wearing a septum ring and has long, blue and white hair and purple lips. There is an arc of white dots on her forehead. Smaller, blue dots fleck her left cheek, which is colored pink and purple. The right side of her face is obscured by her hair. There is a blue and white galaxy-like pattern in the top-left and bottom-right corners of the image, and a few white stars in the other corners of the image.

Seizure

Arin Mara

"I'm glad to think he did not think and had..."
A graphite and black pen sketch evocative of Italian marble statuary depicts two figures having sexual intercourse. Two figures face each other. The left most figure kneels on one knee over the right-most figure's lap. The left figure is arched backwards, and the figure's hand is out stretched to clasp in the right figure's short hair. A drape covers only the genitals of the left figure, with the right figure gripping and lifting the drape into the air.

Blood

Eyan Gentry

"I want it. No. I need it. I need the warmth..."

White Dragon

Riley James Nold

"Cuts sharp corners of its basalt mane run jagged lines down its spine..."
A gouache painting depicting an adorable bright-white alien in a flying saucer. The blue vessel is centered on the beige canvas, heading towards the upper right-hand side, shining down a red beam below it. In the background are yellow stars, black and red comets, orange orbs, teal stripes, whisps of white.

The Brim of an Event Horizon

Drew Anderson

"Pulled toward a singularity...there's nothing to be seen..."

See Men Die

Vaughn A. L. Jones

"Have you seen men die?"

Gone with Its Growl

Will Broadhurst

"A heaven's touch..." "Of flora and fowl..."