Category: Visual
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Comic: “A Tender-Hearted Beheading” by Nick Francis Potter
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Nick Francis Potter lives in Missouri with his wife and two boys. New Animals (Subito Press, 2016) is his first book.
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“The Last Bullet,” a comic by Andrew Bourelle & Edward Bourelle
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Andrew Bourelle is the author of the novel Heavy Metal. His short stories have been published widely in literary magazines and fiction anthologies including The Best American Mystery Stories. Edward Bourelle has worked more than twenty years in commercial art as a graphic designer, illustrator, cartographer, and art director. Currently he is…
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“Three Photos: Urbanity” by Peter Witte
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Makeshift Memorial Rain Riding Two Men and a Mattress Peter Witte is a writer and visual artist. His work has been featured in a variety of literary magazines and journals including The Sun, The Threepenny Review, Tin House Online, Hobart Online, and The Rumpus. He teaches writing at the University of Maryland.…
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“Monster,” a GIF comic poem by Matthew Kramer
*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. Matthew Kramer is a, writer, illustrator, and artist in Providence, Rhode Island. He is an MFA candidate in Literary Arts at Brown University, where he teaches comics. His artwork can be viewed at matthewckramer.com and canttakemeanywhere.com. “The comic poems are a series of soliloquies and dialogues in which everyday aphorisms, thoughts, and…
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Three Collage Hybrids by Guy Benjamin Brookshire
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Liberty Liberty looks in the mirror and over her shoulder far on the floor there is a bloody massacre. A hideous and murderous entertainment. In which the very best of people find themselves compelled at least every once in a while to complete their application and legally…
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Four Paper Targets by Jennifer Davis
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Mischief Robot Spaceman Tears Jennifer Davis is a painter from Minneapolis, Minnesota. More: jenniferdavisart.com.
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Three Collages by Erin Case
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. No Taste Pillarist Window Erin Case is an award-winning visual artist based in Midland, Michigan, with a focus in collage. Working in both analog and digital methods, she is regarded for the marriage of surrealism, sincerity, and evocativeness that is present throughout her body of work. While still…
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Poetry & Art Sequence: “Big Enough to Step Inside” by Xan Schwartz
Gemini Rising/Poem for Nellie It was your birthday and Iknew you and I didn’t know you. Your skin was glowinglike a cloud You were surviving to the tune of light beer to the tune of raspberries and a couple of cows to the tune of Joan of Arc’s head tilt You were singing loudly…
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Three Illustrations by Eben Kling
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Big Flood Double Man Good Joke Eben Kling received his BFA from Montserrat College of Art in 2009 and his MFA from Umass Amherst in 2015. Most recently he has shown at the Miller Yezerski Project Space and Gallery Kayafas in Bostom MA, Nopop Gallery and Artspace in…
