February 2022 — Issue 49
We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 49th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:



Rahne Alexander — Twilight For Us All; what i want
Mary E. Croy — moon stir; night train
Teresa Duggan — City Sunset; ISO EEE: A Shadows Girl
Marcelo Funes-Gallanzi and Raquel-IA — Candide; Home
Anai Gonzalez — the last test; if i kill myself
Vin Grabill — Dreamscape; Mr. Darcy and Miss Bennet have a problem
María Cristina Hall — Avignon; Elements of Home
Lindsay McKeough — Untitled; Winter Line
Derek Roper — Untitled; The Heretic
S.F. Wright — Velvet; Movie Day
Contributor Bios – February 2022


November 2021 – Issue 48


We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 48th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:
Melissa Penley Cormier – Plantmatter: Polaroid Type 55 Portraits; Plummeting
Juna Hume Clark – Daylight Savings; Portrait in Red
Leah Clare Michaels – The Spines of Books and Mine; 2020-2021: still life/stasis (?)
Nicole K. Ostrowski – Untitled; Inside
Julia Samorodova – Flowers Die Quietly; It’s November
Patrick Wright – Exit Strategy; Portrait of Katherine Mansfield
Contributor Bios – November 2021

August 2021 – Issue 47


We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 47th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:
Mary Bargteil – Exhale; Sanctuary
Brita d’Agostino – Gold #2; Spinnin’ with the Stars Above
Juliette Goodwin – Eye of Alix; Clouds Above and Below
Dane Lyn – life in ornate amber; roller rink royalty
Bobby Miller – Spectral Event; face
Jeanne Morel – Blues Mosaic with Contemplative Pool; Tahoe
Bethany Rivers – Crystal-Henge; In the wake of the Pale of Settlement
Judith Skillman – Mediterranean after De Stäel; After Tahoe


May 2021 – Issue 46



We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 46th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:
Paul Brooke – Gas Light; Winter of the Pandemic
Jacalyn Carley – thought caught; Portrait of Jill Tumbling
Luigi Coppola – Gaining Starry Wisdom; Bridesmaid
Linda Eve Diamond – Chromatic Harmonies; Nightingale Notes
Teresa Duggan – Escape Hatch; Yabby 2000: lupDujHomwIj luteb gharghmey
Jillian J. Ellis – Empty Embrace; We Survive Together
Joann Field – Jazz; resonance
Vin Grabill – Inscape 2; Cascade 2
Emory D. Jones – Inscape; Water Lilies
Norbert Marszalek – Clear Glass Teacup; Watching the fading light seep through unfamiliar windows
Michele Poole – The Escape Hatch; The Tank
Stephanie Pressman – After learning an artist friend had a stroke; Portrait of Jill
Derek Roper – Gaining Starry Wisdom; Ms. Marsh
Alexandra Samios – Untitled; Like Today




February 2021 – Issue 45



We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 45th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:
Sarah Antine – So You Can Be Born Completely; Cigarette Girls
Janée J. Baugher – Raping Will Stop When Men Stop Raping; Held By Earth
Jennifer Bishop – Airplane; Stone Angel
Lana Crossman – For the love of Wiley; Patchwork
Tony Daly – Self-Repression; Losing Balance
Lois Marie Harrod – Asymmetrical; We Do What We Do
Rose Menyon Heflin – Like Icarus; Modern Mindfulness
Gard Jones – Extension; Styx & Stone
Sanzi Kermes – Untitled; Patchwork
Selene LaMarca – Untitled; She Lifted Her Head
Qrcky – Self-Censorship; Aokigahara (青木ヶ原)
Jeremy Szuder – Untitled; We Do What We Do
Contributor Bios – February 2021



November 2020 – Issue 44


We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 44th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:
Christine Green — Planchette; Shortwave (short stories)
Michele Mekel — Hybridity; Murderess (poetry)
Nicole K. Ostrowski — Untitled; Crimson (artwork)
Derek Roper — Untitled; Broadcasting from Yuggoth (artwork)
JC Sulzenko — Luck. Now.; From sea to sea (poetry)
Ron Tobey — Days Rise; Open Your Eye (videopoem)
Contributor Bios — November 2020

August 2020 – Issue 43
We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 43rd issue of The Light Ekphrastic:
Anna Bookstaber – Defy; Ego Birth (poetry)
Teresa Duggan – Fry City; TP Toss: Threat Opp (art)
Emory Jones – Galaxy; Christina’s World (poetry)
Paul McKee – Carny; Sunday Spin (poetry)
Leah Clare Michaels – Dare; Ego & The Vicious Angel (art)
K Roberts – Vanishing Point; Candy Bar Comrades (poetry)
Derek Roper – Untitled; Dunwich (art)
Ron Torrence – speak memory; the journey itself is home (poetry)
Dominique Zeltzman – Untitled, Untitled (art)
Winston Zhou – Quarantine Walk; Untitled (art)
Contributor Bios – August 2020
May 2020 – Issue 42
We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 42nd issue of The Light Ekphrastic:
Annaliese Baamonde – Shibboleth; The Apostate (writing)
Marlayna Demond – Untitled; Ticks of Time (art)
James Croal Jackson – where we stand; Truffle Shuffle Lodge (Hocking Hills, 2018) (writing)
F. X. James – Untitled; we roll this way (writing)
Erin Lehrmann – Untitled; Stone men in caverns of burnt light (art)
Mario Loprete – NUMA Crew; he was my father (art)
Nicole K. Ostrowski – Untitled; Plotting (art)
Jared Pearce – Oil on Concrete; Maple (writing)
Exquisite Fantastic: Timothy Nohe
What is Exquisite Fantastic? See the full collection of Exquisite Fantastic projects here.
Contributor 11: Timothy Nohe, March 27, 2020
Sentience Dreaming
Timothy’s Inspiration: I was thinking of the “predatory mollusk” in Moss’ work, and I wondered about the unique evolutionary path that cephalopods took, their manifest intelligence, and the flashing colors of their lucid dreams. I was inspired by the images of Heather Moss’ poem “Twelve: The Conflagration,” especially the lines: “When best to serve a chewable tablet / on a scalloped plate? An optical / illusion in billowing ink from / the predatory mollusk: do you / see the manta ray, or twin faces / staring hash marks into each other’s / dilated pupils?”
See the work that inspired Timothy here.
Timothy Nohe is an artist, composer and educator engaging traditional and electronic media in civic life and public places. His work has been focused upon sustainability and place, and musical and video works for dance and live performance. Nohe has exhibited and performed his work in a range of national and international venues and was the recipient of a 2006 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award from the Australian – American Fulbright Commission. He is the founding Director of the Center for Innovation, Creativity and Research in the Arts (CIRCA) and a tenured Professor of Visual Arts at UMBC.
Exquisite Fantastic: Heather Moss
What is Exquisite Fantastic? See the full collection of Exquisite Fantastic projects here.
Contributor 10: Heather Moss, March 14, 2020
Twelve: The Conflagration
Harlequin moms sheathed in tight t-shirts
slalom the sideline fathers shouting
their curly brackets at the field. Girls
run — remember the picture you drew
of her before she was born, her fists
like petaled sand dollars– a battery
of gemsboks over the grasslands. Which
bright cutouts by Matisse? Whose guitar
frets inset by mother-of-pearl? When
best to serve a chewable tablet
on a scalloped plate? An optical
illusion in billowing ink from
the predatory mollusk: do you
see the manta ray, or twin faces
staring hash marks into each other’s
dilated pupils? A depiction
of vertical bars speeds envelopes
through industrious machinery.
This morning on the bathroom tile: dried
red droplets, probably not hair dye,
question mark? More like interrobang.
Heather’s Inspiration: I spent a long time looking at Dervish Majorette by Juliette Goodwin and writing down the myriad images I saw there. When I had a list of 15 or so, I carried it around with me and thought about how those things could fit together, and on the third day of mulling, I wrote the poem.
See the work that inspired Heather here.
Heather Moss, who has never stopped being obsessed with adolescence, is a 2013 graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore. She’s saving up to be put into an Eternal Reef so that she may spend the afterlife amongst the sharks and other cartilaginous fishes, and anybody else who wants to hang around.