FALL/WINTER 2021 ISSUE
The Fall/Winter 2021 Issue features work from 43 contributors from around the globe.
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FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS
Cover Artist
RETURA CLAAR
Retura Claar is a designer, visual artist and emerging writer based in San Francisco. Her work explores color, form, and texture inspired by mountain ranges and deserts across the West. Mediums such as film photography and illustration are utilized to document her travels in the backcountry and little moments of joy in the city. She’s showed illustrations in Denver, Colorado and has had poetry previously published in Humana Obscura.
Connect with her on Instagram @returaclaar.
Featured Artist
DERRICK BREIDENTHAL
Derrick Breidenthal’s paintings have been showcased throughout the US and abroad. His art is heavily influenced by rural America. His paintings are confident depictions of atmospheric spaces that balance an interesting line between familiar scenes and specific events. His painting methods enhance the perfection of a dream, as well as hold up to the roughness of reality. In 2021, Derrick debuted a solo museum exhibition covering over five years of his Nocturnal oil paintings.
See more of his work at www.breidenthalart.com.
Featured Poet
LUKE LEVI
Luke Levi graduated from Texas State University with a BBA in finance. He lives in the Texas Hill Country, and many of his poems are about animals and other natural elements in the region. His poems can be found or are forthcoming in Presence, Akitsu Quarterly, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Wales Haiku Journal, Failed Haiku, Trash Panda Haiku, Cold Moon Haiku Journal, and elsewhere.
Follow him on Instagram @lukelevipoet.
INSIDE THE ISSUE
SELECTED POETRY
Retura Claar: "Ghost Glaciers"
Bryan Stewart: "GairLoch Pat III: Turbulent"
Bryan Stewart: "Painted Spruce"
Buffy Davis: "Trees"
Daryl Farmer: "Sunset, Iceland"
Denise Granger Kerbs: "Dominion"
Derrick Breidenthal: "Old Highway"
Derrick Breidenthal: "Ice"
Derrick Breidenthal: "Camp"
Derrick Breidenthal: "Round Bales"
Jocelyn Ulevicus: "Climbing"
Katya Belena: "Bone Dreams of Marrow"
M. C. Reardon: "Water, Lostine River"
M. Russek: "Fine Cracks Holding Together"
Nicoline Franziska: "Migration IV"
Sharon Becker: "Spring Illusion"
Steve Fay: "Cornstubble Deer"
Theodore Tollefson: "Night Phase I"
Tiffany Wong: "The Way Home"
Vanessa Pejovic: "Frozen Echoes"
Vanessa Pejovic: "Land Marks"
Vian Borchert: "Snowy Countryside"