Poem by PRISCILLA LONG & Art by JASMINE IONA BROWN

Priscilla Long is a Seattle-based writer of poetry, essays, creative nonfictions, fictions, science, and history. She has an MFA degree from the University of Washington and teaches writing. Her guide to writing is The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life (University of New Mexico Press, second edition, 2018).

Jasmine Iona Brown: “My paintings, photography and illustrations usually focus on the face. I paint portraits, masks and icons or take photographs that highlight individual beings. My work is in the collections of the Wing Luke Museum, the municipal collections of both Seattle and Tacoma, and the Trayvon Martin Foundation.” Visit her Instagram site @jasmineionadesign.

2 Poems from THIS NEUTRAL AIR: 9/11 What needs to be said

Robert Gregory: …something solid and permanent/ just up the street disintegrates in distance and silence,/ and a roaring wind from the unheard blast comes/ running past us with the ragged torn fragments/ of paper and skin…

Anna Bálint: I heard the plane./ First the drone/ and then the roar of it,/ the rest a confusion./ Sudden heat and screams,/ a rush of fire, black smoke,/ fire and smoke/ rushing into my lungs/ as everything/ everything/ gave way…

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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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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