Beth Copeland – Explication
Explication Unaware of his loss until a warm day when he wears shorts above a black titanium leg, I see him step onto a field of poppies or stumble upon a bomb outside of Basra, a limb blasted to bits. I try not to look, but my eye returns to the prosthesis beneath his desk […]
Sabrina Fedel – Zero
Zero She found my father hunched in a squat, hand outstretched, wet can of c-rations waiting to be licked clean both lost to the Philippines Clinging, like drops of rain or sweat, when the clap of intelligent life broke the canopy open, vines cracking into ribbon pieces floating and falling she hid burrowing a fox […]
Matilda Berke – Échappé
Échappé During the Cultural Revolution, Madame Mao took control of the National Ballet of China. Government officials scoured the nation for children who showed physical promise, plucking them from their homes and placing them in state-sanctioned training camps. The dream where the moon filters through onto the dust & I find myself in my mother’s […]
Annette C. Boehm – Operator
Operator The front line’s a 45 minute drive from my place. I grab Starbucks on the way. I take over mid-air, fly three eight hour shifts, lose track of my body in Vegas, my eyes on gray scale dirt, my eyes the drone’s. 5,000 feet is best. The image so clear I can tell the […]
Lisa Allen Ortiz’s Guide to the Exhibit, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Lisa Allen Ortiz Guide to the Exhibit Perugia Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi In Guide to the Exhibit, Lisa Allen Ortiz offers the reader a tour of her own personal museum of natural (and unnatural) history, the product of a lifetime’s devoted collecting. Filled with wonders—birds abound but also mastodons and minerals, gemstones and microfossils—the book […]
