Spring 2021: Creative Fire

From "Alchemy of the Mind" © James Notarianni; used by permission]

When Inspiration Strikes

The hawk is gliding on thermals but soon will wing lower and try to lift me from the water. Will I fly with him? Have I, like Alice, dwindled, so he can snatch me up? Or will he grip me with his talons, like the eagle I once saw, and be dragged underwater—unable to release his prey—until we both are drowning: another scenario of love and loss?

—from “Rough Water Delusions”

New pieces will appear on the Table of Contents as they
publish throughout the issue cycle.

Personal Stories

A Little Something for the Effort by Therese Beale
Take a Liberal to Church by Catherine Vance
The Diary of a Conservationist by Wendy Townsend
Putting the Farm to Bed by Elizabeth Oness
The Bones of Oak by Marie Alfonsi

Writer's Life

Your Baby's Ugly by Joan Frank

Flash Nonfiction

Rough Water Delusions by Susan Terris

Art

Inferno by Edward Michael Supranowicz

Genre Borders

Video: Alchemy and the Act of Creation by James Notarianni
A Large Volume of Small Nonsenses by B. Tyler Lee
Reborn by Gracie Bialecki

Poetry

The Muse of Bad Poems by Paula Bonnell
Floating and Rising in Federal Setting Level Four by Mary Jo Robinson-Jamison
Crazy Quilt by Madeleine Mysko
Once I Was a Lighthouse by Jacqueline Schaalje

 

 

Artwork in this Issue

Featured Artist: James Notarianni

  • Spring 2021 Cover
  • “Video: Alchemy and the Act of Creation”

 

Featured Artist: Edward Michael Supranowicz

  • “Inferno”
  • “Your Baby's Ugly”

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