Issue 5 - Attention Heads/Tails At around midnight on a random weekday in 2007, I wandered downstairs from my bedroom to the kitchen. I found my father with a pencil, a quarter, and a piece of paper covered in hundreds of letters: “H T H T T” on one
Issue 5 - Attention Photography by Nimue Hastings Artist’s Note When I think of Attention, I am reminded of something Sam Harris once said — "How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives [...] Our minds—and lives—are
Issue 5 - Attention Unframed Picture “I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture.” — Henri Matisse Oil Painting by Victoria Juharyan. Photo by Elina Akselrud, NYC 2010“Close your eyes. Relax. Picture the moment you were being born,” the therapist posited. “Whom would you
Issue 5 - Attention Photography by Kyla Fleming "comand light" a digitized watercolor painting of a hummingbird with digital overlays."channeling connection" A Poloraid photograph edited with digital overlays Artist’s Note There’s a uniquely delightful dance
Issue 5 - Attention Art by Rebekah Danae RelaxPublic UnveilingDiverse CoalitionsTornado cookies Artist’s Note As a whimsical femininist from the vermilion Texas desert, my worldview hasn't shattered, but surrealized. There are volumes to paint on the modern
Issue 5 - Attention Poetry by James Berry I can’t eat sweet potatoes anymore Without thinking about you. You and that garage apartment, Spartan with your art and mattress. It was a lie Trapped in the other’s eyes. Twirling through art museums. Reveling in the innocence of the strange new
Issue 5 - Attention Poetry by Marilyn Kallet Elegy for My Fuji X-20 You were with me in Auvillar, when Christophe showed me what my eyes are for, pointed them at a trio of elders, village “personnages,” white-haired dudes. Now I’m la viellle, l’ancienne, senior cit, as we say in
Issue 5 - Attention The Sounds of Summer (Baseball Cards) Somebody told somebody that everybody told Neil Armstrong to not even bother stepping foot on the Negro side of the moon. June, August and July, three segregated summertime sisters agreed, weather-wise. The year of our lord, 1969 was a color-line shaped like no shape
Issue 5 - Attention An Invitation of Attention I have a confession to make: I’ve become a grumpy, easily irritated person when I’m out in the street. If someone walks too slowly in front of me when I’m in a hurry (usually I am), I get impatient and mentally
Issue 5 - Attention Art by Evgeny Solodky "Falcon, piercing the head""receding into memories""Fragrance of Remote Happiness""Good morning" Artist’s Note Evgeny's paintings are based on the classical school of oil painting with the addition of author's know-how-glazing with transparent paints on metal, the use of special ink, and
Issue 5 - Attention Art by Primrose Coke 'Cardinal Flower’, oil on canvas, 16”x20”, 2022‘Bare Lie’, oil on canvas,24”X 36”, 2022‘Shoelaces’, oil on canvas, 18”x24”, 2022 Artist’s Note First a shaky drawing is made and then lost in a thick daubing of oil paint in
Issue 5 - Attention Currents Behind the Scenes "Currents Behind the Scenes" acrylic on canvas Artist’s Note I was eight years deep into an art hiatus when I discovered the artist Katie Over (@katieesstudio) on Instagram. The moment something captures our attention, a process of a million steps begins, and ends,
Issue 5 - Attention Excerpt from Skyside: Notes from a Studio by Stéphanie Ferrat Painting constructs itself from the trickle of time, just as puddles dry, hay gilds, the day erodes, repeats, sinks into the earth and the air scraping ground.
Issue 5 - Attention second empire i am the breaking of small things — sheets try covering fractures along my skin. i lie too still on this bed. you stare, nervously, with a tainted expression walking circles, accusing me of having caused sickness & plagues to hatch, to grow — i knew
Issue 5 - Attention On Paying Attention Juhi September ‘21 Boston, MA Red and blue and green strobe lights swooped across the stadium. Old Rihanna played from the speakers amongst the squeals, interrupted conversations, and laughter. From Juhi’s seat, the stage looked compact, the size of four podiums squished together.
Issue 5 - Attention Poetry by Jeff Hardin STANDING FIRM How raucous the crows are, blaspheming the fields. Why be surprised, though, since the same can be heard on town square, in diners, around tables at family gatherings. Truth, if it survives, will need to stay wordless for at least a generation.
Issue 5 - Attention A Poem by Sonya Marx Poet’s Note No writer works in a vacuum. I wish to acknowledge the work of two poets for providing inspiration and creative fuel as I worried on this piece. The two stanzas ending in question marks are heavily influenced by the curious and
Issue 5 - Attention Poetry by Andrew Najberg The Ladybug It’s hard to drink the poisons despite how often they brim and bubble at our lips the world is designed to turn our heads sideways and our ankles around and make us the moths to every unimportant light which is why
Issue 5 - Attention Of Grass & Roots There are 11,400 known kinds of grass. That is more than a human would ever be able to encounter in a lifetime. I find this fact wondrous.
Issue 5 - Attention Love Ten days til Autumn. Three til Veda Lou. Today I’m making her a Barbie house and Zelma Vesce is making a story that involves the world from fifty thousand feet.
Issue 5 - Attention GHOSTLY HILLS When journalists came up to Nikolai Rinovsky for an interview, his hands would tremble. He looked at them, stroked his front teeth with his tongue and said nothing. Nobody had a clue why one of the most famous acrobats of the southern capital had
Issue 5 - Attention Moral Certainty at 120 mph “Yeah, I’m all right, don’t worry, I’m all right, fortunately the ground broke my fall.” - Night Shift (1982) Whether you’ll turn out to be the hero of this story, or whether the villain, in this case, gravity must show.
Issue 4 - Trace Issue 4 Contributors & Extended Bios Adam Syty lives and works in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania. He teaches high school English and coaches track and field. Alex Quinlan’s poetry, nonfiction and reviews have appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Tampa Review, and the Birmingham Poetry Review. He
Issue 5 - Attention describing blood Thank you for making space for me. Getting in my car at the very last minute because life feels a bit too hectic is nothing new for me. Staying with strangers is scarcely strange. Entering into a town you do not know and somehow
