Issue 2 - Recovery Brood X Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author I. Rising periodic into tropic heat— to bleat, to touch, to die— scaling these oaks, whipping their drums til love, the first intelligence, comes to save them— they slip their aspiring offspring
Issue 2 - Recovery Cartoons on Recovery by Brooke Bourgeois Artist’s Note Brooke is an illustrator and cartoonist who aims to create work at the intersection of comedy and current events. Her selection of cartoons on the theme of "Recovery" touches on the exhaustion of change and how very ill-equipped we are in
Issue 2 - Recovery Gold Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author —after Leon Wyczółkowski's painting, “Spring in Gościeradz” i. We speak of art, as we make our trip. We speak against erasure. You thumb through a tattered volume of lesser-known painters as we
Issue 2 - Recovery Selected Prints by Claire Lehnen Water Truck in Chennai (2020) | Oil on paper | 12 x 18 inches“Water Truck in Chennai (2020)” captures the intimacy of women—draped in colorful sarees—joyfully chatting, laughing, and splashing in the water in the hot and humid July air. The scene takes
Issue 2 - Recovery Hope Is I n April, we run bloody fingers under sink-water, and tape over our broken skin. We hold him in oven mitts, in mittens, in anything we can find. We hide our hands and feet under sweatshirts and socks. So he bites our necks instead.
Issue 2 - Recovery The Book of Amos An unbelieving prophet named Amos Caster faces apocalypse after a string of apparent child murders leaves the twin cities of Auspicion and Calamity thirsting for blood. Through dreams, visions and memories, Amos searches for hope in the face of pain and desperation. CHAPTER 1
Issue 2 - Recovery The Transformative Potential of Trauma Recovery This piece explores the interrelationship between trauma and recovery in psychotherapy. While it does not discuss any specific details of traumatic events, it is important to acknowledge that the topic itself may bring up unwanted memories or reflection. I n my office, I have
Issue 2 - Recovery A Conversation with Steve Loya and Tristan Welch Symposeum cover artist Steve Loya and cover musician Tristan Welch in conversation with editor Matt Miller. This interview was edited for length and clarity. It is a special feature for the digital edition of Issue 2. _________________________________________________________ Matt Miller: How did you two meet? How
Issue 2 - Recovery Lost and Found F or more than seventy years, my grandmother Lilly’s diary sat untouched at the bottom of a cardboard box stuffed into a tiny closet in my family’s home. The dark green leather notebook gathered dust, the pages—beginning to yellow around the
Issue 2 - Recovery A Purple Heart Buried on the Rhine U nder a clear blue sky in Wesel, the sun’s beams hit the Rhine River on Good Friday. A cargo vessel lumbered by. The soft chatter of adults and contagious laughter of children’s play filled the air with calm. There’s virtually
Issue 2 - Recovery A Natural Recovery: A Book Review of Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun The Outrun: A Memoir by Amy Liptrot 304 pages, W.W. Norton & Company, 2017 Book review by Ali Kominsky Drawing by Courtney W. Brothers “There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better
Issue 2 - Recovery On Time I t’s June 6, 2018, and I’m trying to sleep, but the heart rate monitor is beeping and the CPAP machine is hissing ceaselessly. My daughter, Em, is sleeping in her isolette. A well-deserved rest. She’s been alive for sixty-eight hours,
Issue 2 - Recovery Four-Letter Prayers “W hat the fuck?!” Pulled over on the side of the road, I dug my fingernails into the steering wheel and curled my torso around it. “What the fuck?!” If memory serves me right, these were the third and fourth times I had ever
Issue 2 - Recovery No Justice, No Peace? On Law Enforcement And Criminal Justice Throughout History Professor Hadar Aviram interviews Professor Joel Harrington and PhD candidate Mohammed Allehbi, with an introduction by Symposeum editor, Nissim Lebovits. Nissim Lebovits: Last year, the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd (and countless
Issue 2 - Recovery ‘Voy a hablar de la esperanza’ Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author Ruth, you are angry at the world for its miscarriages. It is early November and we are walking again in the Haagse Bos, wondering at the rusty-headed ducks, the yellowing of the
Issue 2 - Recovery Two Poems by Nina Murray Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author In my great-grandmother's time there was a tool for everything and for every tool—a toolbox hers was not an ill-fit universe—worn yes but orderly in her room I played with
Issue 2 - Recovery Clarity in G-Sharp I often sit on a stool at the long bar-top counter in my favorite coffee shop. From here, I can see everyone. Theoretically, I could speak with them, too, although these days only a few will leave the glow of their screens or the
Issue 2 - Recovery Bill's Lorica Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author Let Go the Burden of Being Upright (The Purple Quilt) (2021) by Margaret Sloan | Watercolor on paper | 11.5 x 11.5 inchesin the sparkling northwoods blue-green today we gather warmth of
Issue 2 - Recovery Put the girl on the shore Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author Let her alone with the currents to the eager tide’s, pull of ebb and gift of flow to prayers of driftwood and seaweed notes. Leave her to the lash of marram,
Issue 2 - Recovery Dawn in a Grove Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author As light reenters the forest space: a slow, steady rousing to consciousness. The thin liquid of night stirs, lifting. Silence, the stately forms of trees. The low ferns flutter slightly, wafting skyward,
Issue 2 - Recovery Digression Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author The temple’s mystery is this: somehow, I remembered the same music for ten years. Not its notes— I could only play the right keys if playing fast enough; if giving up
Issue 2 - Recovery Wake I. My living room smells of the marsh at low tide, seaweed arid in the sun. Hermit crabs recede in the silt as the salt water runs back to its home, leaving a layer of detritus and sludge on my mom’s favorite rug.
Issue 2 - Recovery Letter to Readers Dear Reader, O ne hundred and eighty-one years ago this summer season, in his inaugural Editorial Introduction to The Dial, Ralph Waldo Emerson outlined the publication's aims (which have inspired ours) “to draw thoughts and feelings which, being alive, can impart life.” It was
Issue 2 - Recovery Ça va me changer (This is going to change me) (2018) Acrylic on canvas | 36 x 48 inches Artist’s Note "Ça va me changer" is the second painting in a string of three that, together, form the Ça Series. The French utterance “ça” is multifaceted in its use: a pronoun, an interjection, and a
Issue 1 - Transition Vital Arrogant Fatal Dominant: On Poems, Attention, and Relation Why poetry matters in times of great global change.
