American Radiance
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Although Luisa Muradyan’s American Radiance (University of Nebraska Press, 2018) centers on the memories of migrating to the United States, it also expands on…
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Ash Wednesday, Offshore
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We cordoned the bay from the ocean and it did not contain the spill. O God, who created the earth, We used napalm…
Three Poems
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Chorus Frog The season of cracking open, bloodroot, egg strings. My grandmother chops the cloddy ground. Many years without him. Onion sets, new…
The Earth, The Body
bySandy Coomer is a visual artist and poet living in Brentwood, TN. Below, she shares her thoughts on acrylic pour painting and how it…
Two Poems
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Walking the Arroyo I kneel at the altar of stone, quartz-veined and creek-cut to trace volcanic memories. The urgency of cicadas sings through…
Boxed World
byWilliam D. Hicks is a photographer who lives in Chicago. These works explore the interrelationship between natural subjects and technology. In Night Lights, the leafless…
Letter From The Editor
byOur social media editor Hilary Scheppers reflects on the importance of renewal and recommitment as an ongoing eco–spiritual practice. Amidst the dense layers of…
Claude Monet, Argenteuil, 1875
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It was a lot of things. It was the algae blooms swimming against the tide. It was the convent of masts, making partial…
Amano
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Inspired by Frank Relle’s “Amano,” Jack Bedell composed his ekphrastic poem of the same name. Amano —Frank Relle Gallery, NOLA¹ Even what’s left…
(In)imitable Art
byIf you consider yourself a reader, especially a reader of poetry, it is likely that you’ve read John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”…