WINTER 2025 ISSUE
The Winter 2025 Issue of Humana Obscura features work from 54 contributors from around the globe, including cover art by Brigitte B. Burckhardt, back cover art by Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig, interviews with artist Carol Haynes and poets Abby Harding and Sukriti Patny, and spotlights on the work of poet David Sleeth-Keppler and photographer Brooke Ryan.
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featured contributors
cover artist
BRIGITTE B. BURCKHARDT
Brigitte B. Burckhardt began taking photographs as a child inspired by her grandfather. In her twenties, she travelled the globe and discovered her passion for landscape and street photography. Today she is also experimenting with abstract approaches. Her work has been published and exhibited in Europe and North America. Currently she is working on three long-term projects, hopefully they will get published. More of her work can be seen and purchased on Instagram (@bbbeaglebearphotography) and on her website: www.bbbphotography.com.
featured artist
BROOKE RYAN
Brooke Ryan views life as a collection of fleeting moments. She covets the effects of changing seasons on the natural world: the lifecycle of leaves, the stark beauty of tree branches reflecting on water in spring, and the amorphous forms of clouds. Ryan often shoots with a full-spectrum converted camera, her photographs revealing a realm that extends outside our vision, inviting us to pause and consider what lies beyond what we see. Her photography has been exhibited across the USA and is in homes worldwide. See her work at BrookeRyanPhotography.com and on Instagram
@BrookeRyanPhoto.
featured poet
DAVID SLEETH-KEPPLER
David Sleeth-Keppler, PhD is a new poet who has found his voice in midlife, balancing a twenty-year career in psychology and marketing. He lives among coast redwoods, the fog and the sea in Arcata, California, with his wife and children, and serves as associate professor in Cal Poly Humboldt’s School of Business. He enjoys walks with his son at the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary and with his wife in the redwood
community forest.
INTERVIEWS
SUKRITI PATNY
Poet
CAROL HAYNES
Artist
ABBY HARDING
Writer
"Dancing Snow" by Brigitte B. Burckhardt
"Vermillion Lakes II" by Alexandra Karnasopoulos
"Frost on Rose Hips" by Caroline Brown
"Sister" by Anne Kulou
"Frozen Transit" by Carol Haynes
"Camo" by Alexandra Karnasopoulos
"A Glimpse of Light" by Brigitte B. Burckhardt
"It's Snowing" by Brigitte B. Burckhardt
"Winter Fog" by Brigitte B. Burckhardt
"Apple Orchard" by Brooke Ryan
"Bluebirds" by Brooke Ryan
"Does in Snowstorm" by Brooke Ryan
"Signs of Life" by Brooke Ryan
"Between States of Being" by Carol Haynes
"Snowflake Echo" by Carol Haynes
"Frozen" by Caroline Brown
"Midnight Dancer" by Caroline Brown
"Still Moment" by Caroline Brown
"Reaching for the Sky" by Caroline Brown
"Snow (Ripples #2)" by Ethan Pines
"Cold Water" by Jason Dean
"A Blizzard Window Through" by Jason Dean
"Suffocate" by Jason Dean
"Winter Sunrises" by Jason Dean
"Water Spirits" by Jen Lothrigel
"Fairytale Land" by Jen Lothrigel
"Winter Embrace" by Jim Stewart
"Winter Light" by Lee-Anne Schmidt
"Winter Hydrangea" by Najib Joe Hakim
"Longing" by Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig
"Winter's Fireworks" by Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig
"Hibernation" by Sarah Hewitt
"Vesterlyng" by Sarah Hewitt
"Frozen" by Sarah Lilja
"Harbinger" by Sierra Glassman
"The Pines and the Fog" by Silvia Felizia
"Cedar Snowmelt" by Talitha May
"Surface" by Talitha May
"Powder Puff" by Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig
"Mountain Glow" by Lee-Anne Schmidt
ISSUE #15
CONTRIBUTORS
POETRY
Abby Harding
Anne Kulou
Barbara Hickson
Beverley Sylvester
Christen Lee
Cynthia Anderson
D A Angelo
David Sleeth-Keppler
Debbie Strange
Dena Heitfield Smith
Diane Perazzo
Ellen Rowland
James Toupin
Jason Harlow
Jennifer Gurney
Jil St. Ledger-Roty
Karah Snyder
Kiera Obbard
Kristine Amundrud
Lauren Chavez
Lisa Perkins
Louis Talbot
Luke Levi
Melissa Dennison
Michael J. Kolb
Mike Taylor
Nicholas Olah
Robert MacLean
Ron C. Moss
Ruth Sharman
Sarah Banks
Shutta Crum
Soumya Mukherjee
Sukriti Patny
Thomas Smith
Xenia Tran
Yana Kane
ART
Alexandra Karnasopoulos
Anne Kulou
Brigitte B. Burckhardt
Brooke Ryan
Carol Haynes
Caroline Brown
Ethan Pines
Jason Dean
Jen Lothrigel
Jim Stewart
Lee-Anne Schmidt
Najib Joe Hakim
Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig
Sarah Hewitt
Sarah Lilja
Sierra Glassman
Silvia Felizia
Talitha May