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.

INSIDE THE ISSUE

SELECTED POETRY

 

David Sleeth-Keppler

Two Poems

 

Abby Harding

Haiku

 

Soumya Mukherjee

Haiku

 

INTERVIEWS

SUKRITI PATNY
Poet

CAROL HAYNES
Artist

ABBY HARDING
Writer

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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