Issue 2 - Recovery - Symposeum Magazine

Issue 2 - Recovery

Ascending Series (2021)

No. 1-5 (acrylic on paper) No. 6-30 (iPad) Artist’s Note The Ascending Series began as a handful of paintings specifically made for the "Recovery" issue of Symposeum. The visuals in the series were a collaborative work influenced by the music of D.C.

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Sidebar: Treating Tinnitus

In this addendum to Clarity in G-Sharp, author Matt R. Phillips is in conversation with Christopher Norwood, an expert on the disease and an audiology extern at UCSF Medical Center. Matt R. Phillips: As I write about my own tinnitus, I’ve wondered whether

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View from the Old Manse

Location: Concord, MA Artist’s Note Transcendental Concord (2018, Radius Books) is a visual interpretation of transcendentalism—a literary, philosophical, and social movement that developed from a community in Concord, Massachusetts. Just prior to the Civil War, in the face of widespread industrialization, the

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Ascending I, II, & III

Ascending I Your browser does not support the audio element. Ascending II Your browser does not support the audio element. Ascending III Your browser does not support the audio element. Artist’s Note In 2010, I was an addict who had experienced homelessness, jails,

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Wake

Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author evolución inversa: volvemos al mar. —Raquel Salas Rivera Meanwhile, wondering what I can say back. We understand behind the lagoon are mangroves. Insisting tsunami never happens, whispers. Inaudibly, maybe the voice of

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HOME

Chimney Rock (2017) represents said natural rock formation in Morrill County, Nebraska. Silo (2018) depicts a silo from a WWII encampment in Phelps County, Nebraska. Blowing Prairie (2018) shows the

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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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

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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

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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,