Prose by JANIS BUTLER HOLM & Art by DAVE SIMS

Janis Butler Holm has served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal, and currently works as a writer and editor in sunny Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.

A retired educator, Dave Sims makes art and music in the mountains of central Pennsylvania. His comix and paintings both old-school and digital appear upon the walls, covers and inside pages of over sixty tactile and virtual exhibits and publications. His guitar playing and singing still leave listeners shaking their heads in disbelief, while his totems continue to catch the eyes of many strangers. Experience more at www.tincansims.com

POEM by Ronda Piszk Broatch & ART by Danielle Hark

Ronda Piszk Broatch is the author of Lake of Fallen Constellations (MoonPath Press). Ronda’s current manuscript was a finalist with the Charles B. Wheeler Prize and Four Way Books Levis Prize. She is the recipient of an Artist Trust GAP Grant. Ronda’s journal publications include Blackbird, 2River, Sycamore Review, Missouri Review, Palette Poetry, and Public Radio KUOW’s All Things Considered.

Danielle Hark is a writer and mixed media artist whose work explores mental health and trauma. Whether it is through words, lens, paint, or found objects, Danielle’s evocative work blurs the lines between dreams and living nightmares. Her work has been described as haunting, terrifying, and transcendent. When she is not creating, Danielle can be found napping in her blanket cave with her black cat and creepy dolls. www.daniellehark.com IG: @daniellehark

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WORDS by Eneida P. Alcalde & ART by Lisa Dailey

Lisa Dailey is a Montana native and third-generation photographer living in the Pacific Northwest. She is also an avid traveler and writer. Along with her husband and two teenage sons, Lisa spent seven months traveling around the world, exploring thirteen countries and more than eighty locations. The world serves as the backdrop for her memoir, Square Up (Sidekick Press 2021), detailing her adventures and misadventures as well as her own personal journey through grief. https://lisa-dailey.com.

Eneida P. Alcalde’s Chilean-Puerto Rican background fuels her writing, which seeks to ask questions, explore mysteries, and elevate the underrepresented. Her stories and poems have appeared in literary outlets such as The Acentos Review, Magma Poetry, and Birdcoat Quarterly.

art, literaturePhoebe BoscheAugust 24, 2021The Raven Chroniclesraven chronicles, photorgraphy, Lisa Dailey, Eneida AlcaldeComment

Poem by Gary Copeland Lilley & ART BY Sarah E N Kohrs

Gary Copeland Lilley is the author of eight books of poetry, the most recent being The Bushman’s Medicine Show, from Lost Horse Press (2017), and a chapbook, The Hog Killing, from Blue Horse Press (2018). He is originally from North Carolina, and now lives in the Pacific Northwest. He has received the Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. He is published in numerous anthologies and journals, including Best American Poetry 2014, Willow Springs, The Swamp, Waxwing, the Taos International Journal of Poetry, and the African American Review. He is a Cave Canem Fellow.
Sarah E N Kohrs creates art with a unique perspective on how surroundings kindle hope in even a disparaged heart. Find her photography most recently in CALYX, Glassworks, Gulf Stream, iō, Manhattanville Review, and Raven Chronicles. Surrounded by Shenandoah Valley mountains, Sarah is also a poet, a potter, a homeschooling mother, director for Corhaven Graveyard (a preserved burial ground for African Americans enslaved on an antebellum plantation), and more. Find her online at http://senkohrs.com.

Poems & Art by Keats Conley & Phoebe Bosché

Keats Conley has a Ph.D. in marine biology from the University of Oregon. She has conducted marine research around the world, and has been published in scientific journals such as Nature Microbiologyand PLOS One. She is currently a fish biologist in Idaho, where her work centers on threatened and endangered aquatic species.

Phoebe Bosché is a cultural activist, and has been managing editor of The Raven Chronicles literary organization/Raven Chronicles Press since 1991. Since 1984, she has organized literary events and readings in the Pacific Northwest. In 1985, she co-founded, along with poet Roberto Valenza, “Alternative To Loud Boats,” a literary and musical festival which ran for ten years in various venues in Seattle.

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