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We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 34th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Samir Atassi — What Fall Leaves (poetry)

Dean Baltesson — Over the Days; There’s a Storm (poetry)

Devon Balwit — Yes; On the Bus (poetry)

Gaby Bedetti — Untitled; Burning Leaf (art)

Jeni De La O — Here Are Beautiful Things; Let Me Answer You (poetry)

Marlayna Demond — Salt Stains; Cracked (art)

Juliette Goodwin — Embryo Moon; Wind Blower (art)

Kirsten Lapointe — Kayak; A quiet comfort after the storm (art)

Kelly Lenox — Old Pond; Below Shakespeare Arch (poetry)

Timothy Nohe — Subtle Oscillations; OTB (art)

Meredith Purvis — Pause (poetry)

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We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 33rd issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Sandy Coomer – Descending Night, Tracks (art)

Katie Manning – How I Measure Your Body, One Way to Use a Deck of Cards (poetry)

Nicole Ostrowski – Congrats from the Afterlife, Boosh (art)

Kerfe Roig – Hand Rorschach, beesball (art)

Carl Scharwath – Spatio, Prague Soul (art)

Gerry Stewart – From the Afterlife, Precious (poetry)

Christopher Stolle – Rekindle, Bees Ball? Can’t Go (poetry)

Ken Tomaro – A Penny for Your Dreams, All of my Life (poetry)

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We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 32nd issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Laura Dodson – Springfield; Her Winter Coat (art)

Teresa Duggan – Untitled; Reflecting Pool (art)

Trish Hopkinson – Sideways; Interrogation (poetry)

Juyanne James – Our Own Society (short story); Her Winter Coat (poetry)

Alex Ledford – Peevish Paramour; Spawn (poetry)

Athena Melliar – Tripartite Psyche: An Ode to Humankind; Flaneuse (poetry)

Christine Stoddard – Birthing an Altar; Flaneuse (art)

Vasundhara Tolia – Peevish Paramour; Spawn (art)

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We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 31st issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Dayna Carpenter – Untitled; For The Lady of The Hive (artwork)

Alyse Chinnock – Corey’s Belt; Obey The Edge (artwork)

Allen Forrest – French Press; Majestic Theater (artwork)

Kathryne David Gargano – persephone falls in love with another daughter; the king comes home & the queen is dead (poetry)

Juliette Goodwin – Red Flag Map; After Late Spring (artwork)

Ira Joel Haber – Untitled; Untitled (artwork)

Candice Kelsey – Snow Tubing; Late Spring (poetry)

Michelle Morouse – After French Press, Allen Forrest; Patti Smith, Majestic Theater, Detroit (poetry)

Fabrice Poussin – Complexity; Night Walk (artwork)

Jessica Purdy – Sea of Sand; Night Walk While You are Dying (poetry)

H. E. Riddleton – The Baptism the Morning After; The Making of an Alter (poetry)

Jill Talbot – Speech Therapy/ I Read Your Book At The Library Today; Kansas (poetry)

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We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 30th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Devon Balwit – Blessing; magic (poetry)

Edward Doyle-Gillespie – Wrecker’s Cove; Socorro Prophesy (poetry)

Robbi Nester – The Lives of a River; War Rug (poetry)

Cara Ober – Meshuggeneh, This Train Don’t Stop (artwork)

Kerfe Roig – Blessing; magic (artwork)

Magan Ruthke – Wisdom in the Missouri; Hand-Woven in Afghanistan (artwork)

Crystal Snoddon – Lay Full and Sleeping; Garage Diagnosis (poetry)

Simon J. Ward – The Memory; An Atmospheric Railway (poetry)

Mychael Zulauf – Frail Forms; he returns with fire (music)

LuAnn Zubak – Lost; Untitled (artwork)

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We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 29th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Nathanael S. Absher – demiurge, The Penitent Magdalene (art)

Maya Alexandri – The Full Circle, Caravan (writing)

Marlayna Demond – Digesting Fires (art)

Colin Dodds – Annie Fannie at Morning’s Shore, To Have a Form is to Transform (writing)

Joy Etukudo – Blue Dance, I hurt for no reason at all (art)

Linda Franklin – Annie Above the Bed, Transform (art)

Dina Riddle – Flowers on a Sunday Morning, Black Roses of Winter (art)

Crystal Snoddon – Vernon Now, Read It Cold (writing)

Taunja Thomson – Spilling (The Goldfish Plant), I spend winter imagining (writing)

Thom Young – The Blue Dancer, Love (writing)

LuAnn Zubak – Looking Back (art)

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We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 28th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Taylor Bond — hello, fire/goodbye, water; The Ballad of Tommy (poetry)

Suzanne Coley — One Hundred Years; Pale Spirit (art)

Teresa Duggan — Blue Cadillac, Pink House; frosty warm glow (art)

Katy Kim — One Hundred Years; Lunar (poetry)

Chris Koch — (study for) The Graces In Their Boredom; The Driver Finds Infinity Beneath a Bright Sky (art)

Catherine Maire — Progress; Winter (poetry)

Gina Pierleoni — The Deepest Sleep; Lamentation (art)

A. Garnett Weiss — Surrender; For Nathan Cirillo, soldier (poetry)

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We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 27th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Anna Bernstein — Wild Boar; To the Man Who Winked at Me on the Train (poetry)

Morgan Downie — Contour; Treasured/Mermaid’s Tears (art)

Edward Doyle-Gillespie — Between Sets at The Top of the World Café; Through Elephant Grass (poetry)

J.C. Elkin — Birds on Birds; Winter White (poetry)

Sylvia Fischbach-Braden — Birds on Birds; Take-Out (art)

Allen Forrest — Blues Boogie; Through Elephant Grass (art)

Juliette Goodwin — Untitled; Winky (art)

TS Hidalgo — R&D; A country is built slowly, (poetry)

Christine Higgins — The Shell; Beach Glass (poetry)

Clinton Inman — Untitled (art)

Avelino Maestas — The White Virgin (art)

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We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 26th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Jeanne DeLarm-Neri – My Mother’s 99th Birthday, The Wedding Of (poetry)

Elizabeth Downing – An Underwater Spirit, Bliss (art)

Gail Fishman Gerwin – The Mile, Bliss (poetry)

Emory D. Jones – Singing Grandma, O’Keefe (poetry)

Sanzi Kermes – II, Big Eyed Bride (art)

Margo Lemieux – Aphotic Reverie, Awakening (poetry)

Katherine Menon – Piercing Shadow, Saturday Morning Ritual (poetry)

Bonnie Schupp – Alice, Stone Flower (art)

Christy Sheffield Sanford – Squid Dreams II, Awakening (art)

Martha Simons – Crow Spirits 2, Buddha Bunny (art)

Ron Singer – “Zu Hot!”, The Grid Effect (poetry)

Jenna M. Sterner – Don’t Let the Light In, It Gets Too Hot; Beyond the Grid (art)

Artist Bios – May 2016

We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 25th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Lauren Coggins – When I Worked at the Camera Shop; A Night and the Next Morning (poetry)

Marlayna Demond – Harpers Ferry; Speaking Through Rocks (art)

Linda Franklin – HER at Ease; Illusion of Future for Him (art)

Michael Gebelein – We do have things in common; Apocolypse tomorrow (poetry)

Charlie “Isa” Guzman – Bird Janus; Ruido Pequeno/Small Noises (poetry)

Richard Manly Heiman – Moon Like a Sun Like a Montage; Dali at home (poetry)

Karen Klinedinst – Morning Moon; Toward the Blue (art)

Angel Aragón Mureddu – Daedalus 1; Where the Star Rests Everyday (Absence) (art)

Artist Bios – February 2016

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