SUMMER 2025 ISSUE
The Summer 2025 Issue of Humana Obscura features work from 68 contributors from around the globe, including cover art by Kimber Devaney, back cover art by Kelly Schulze, interview with artist Jocelyn Ulevicus and poet Jessica Aure Pratt, and spotlights on the work of poet Shutta Crum and photographer Stefan Seifert.
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featured contributors
cover artist
KIMBER DEVANEY
Kimber Devaney believes the power of film photography is limitless. As a lens-based artist guided by intuition, Devaney navigates the mystical threads of time to capture and reveal the magic woven within each fleeting moment. Her process is a kind of alchemy, illuminating the interplay between reality and the mysteries that exist beyond our perception. Through the deconstruction and fusion of images, she aims to explore the depths of the human experience, reminding us that beauty often emerges from chaos. Learn more at kimberdevaney.com and connect on Instagram: @mybegonia.
featured artist
STEFAN SEIFERT
Stefan Seifert is a photographer based in Alberta, Canada. He seeks to explore the boundary between reality and the abstract. Seifert has gravitated to an impressionistic style which combines multiple exposures with deliberate camera movements. His goal is to instill an appreciation and respect of all things natural which are often overlooked in our daily lives. By blurring reality, he creates an ethereal atmosphere that reveals a deeper essence of the natural world around us. His work has been shown in local Alberta galleries as well as being published internationally and on Instagram:
@montane1919.
featured poet
SHUTTA CRUM
Shutta Crum is a Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation honoree poet (2024). Her poems have appeared in many journals in several countries including West Trade, Acumen, Calyx, Palette Poetry, and Boulevard. A Pushcart nominee, she is the recipient of 9 Royal Palm Literary Awards (FL). Her chapbook, When You Get Here, won a gold RPLA. Her latest chapbook is Meet Me Out There (Kelsay Books). She publishes the monthly newsletter The Wordsmith’s Playground. Learn more at
www.shutta.com.
INTERVIEWS
JOCELYN ULEVICUS
Photographer
JESSICA AURE PRATT
Poet
"Chiron Square Mars" by Kimber Devaney
"The Song" by Brigitte Merz
"Take Me In" by Anne Kulou
"Monarch Delight" by Caroline Brown
"Canopy" by Jason Dean
"Your Tender Gaze On Me" by Anne Kulou
"I Am Water" by Anne Kulou
"At the Beach" by Brigitte Merz
"Lady Bug" by Caroline Brown
"MirrorMirror" by Caroline Brown
"The Source" by Christina Smeja
"The Singing Sands" by Debbie Strange
"Through the Green" by Gina Gidaro
"Summers Lake" by Jason Dean
"Fruits and Web" by Jenny Brown
"Return to Joy, 2024" by Jocelyn Ulevicus (Acrylic, linen. 60 x 80 cm.)
"Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick, Canada" by Julianna Hallett
"Verdant" by Julianna Hallett
"World Beneath" by K.L. Johnston
"Weather Change" by K.L. Johnston
"Sunlit Veil" by Kelly Schulze
"Blue Valentine" by Kimber Devaney
"Saturn Return" by Kimber Devaney
"Bliss State" by Kimber Devaney
"Elemental I" by Krystle Stevenson
"Langebaan Sunset" by Lee-Anne Schmidt
"In the Quiet" by Melissa Elder
"Breath of Nature" by Nima Rahbari
"Liquid Silver" by Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig
"Silence" by Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig
"Enlightenment" by Stefan Seifert
"Tenacious" by Stefan Seifert
"Transition" by Stefan Seifert
"Allegiance" by Stefan Seifert
"Silent Benediction" by Stuart Trenholm
"The Plumes Return" by Michelle DiSarno
"Imperious" by Stefan Seifert
"Flicker" by Kelly Schulze
"Gone with the Wind" by Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig
"Great Ocean Road" by Sarah Hewitt
ISSUE #13
CONTRIBUTORS
POETRY
Amy Wilde
Anthony Lusardi
Debbie Strange
Ranu Jain
Ryan Bayless
Debora Tremont
Jessica Aure Pratt
Luther Allen
Kate Peel
Nicholas Olah
Jack B. Bedell
Âmî Jey
Shane Coppage
Janet Ruth Heller
Pete Follansbee
Raquel Dionísio Abrantes
Abby Kesington
Jenny Ward Angyal
Chrissy Martin
Ida Marie Beck
C.X. Turner
Joanne M. Clarkson
Olivia Elle
Dana J. Graef
Bethany J. Davis
Kathryn Ganfield
Shutta Crum
Sam Aureli
Gordan Struić
Daniel Dias Callahan
Greg Nelson
Janis La Couvée
Dolo Diaz
jms xuange
Kristine Amundrud
Lauren Merryfield
Rohan Buettel
Anne Kulou
Leon Tefft
Maria L Mecham
Joseph Heithaus
Atefeh Elekaei
Sukriti Patny
Davin Faris
Mark Butler
Harold Sneide
Austin Crowley
Kathy McGoldrick
ART
Stefan Seifert
Jenny Brown
Jocelyn Ulevicus
Melissa Elder
Krystle Stevenson
Sarah Hewitt
Debbie Strange
Jason Dean
K.L. Johnston
Caroline Brown
Julianna Hallett
Nima Rahbari
Gina Gidaro
Brigitte B Burckhardt
Kimber Devaney
Michelle DiSarno
Stuart Trenholm
Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig
Christina (Tina) Smeja
Anne Kulou
Lee-Anne Schmidt
Kelly Schulze