Volume 27, Issue 2
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Featuring work byPOETRY Angela Sorby • Patricia Waters • Jeff Friedman • Adrian Blevins • Laurie Clements Lambeth • K.A. Hayes • Tomasz Rozycki • F. Daniel Rzicznek • Benjamin S. Grossberg • Oliver de la Paz • Ivan Young FICTION Phyllis Gobbell • Matthew Jurak • Eric Notaro • Robert Rice NONFICTION Dinty W. Moore • Dana Shavin • Gerald Stern • Mariflo Stephens • Alison Stine • Nicole Walker TRANSLATIONS Mira Rosenthal INTERVIEWS David Iacovazzi-Pau • Dinty W. Moore • Gerald Stern • Nicole Walker BOOK REVIEWS Tyler N. Moore • Shannon K. Winston ART John Folsom • David Iacovazzi-Pau
Angela Sorby
Party at the beach!
But J refuses to go
because he can’t swim.
11 years old. All day
I watch his cuteness
break open and fall away.
He finds Etta James
on YouTube and says,
“When I’m sad, only sad
songs make me better.”
Already a needle
in his heart knows
how to find the chords
for all he’s missing:
direct sunlight, easy listening.
Already the wax
cylinder’s spinning
its old technology of longing,
and I recognize the boys I knew
in the 80s and 90s,
who dragged me to Fallout Records
so they could “look for something.”
What? It has no name, this sadness
that feels like happiness.
John Folsom (b. 1967) is a multimedia artist born and raised in Paducah, Kentucky. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University. His work explores the potential of photographic images through the intersection of digital media and painting. Known primarily for creating works that relate to the genre of grand landscape, Folsom has also produced sound pieces utilizing field recordings and vinyl records. His work resides in the permanent collections of The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, The Gibbes Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, and Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia as well as many private and public collections.
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Featuring work byPOETRY Angela Sorby • Patricia Waters • Jeff Friedman • Adrian Blevins • Laurie Clements Lambeth • K.A. Hayes • Tomasz Rozycki • F. Daniel Rzicznek • Benjamin S. Grossberg • Oliver de la Paz • Ivan Young FICTION Phyllis Gobbell • Matthew Jurak • Eric Notaro • Robert Rice NONFICTION Dinty W. Moore • Dana Shavin • Gerald Stern • Mariflo Stephens • Alison Stine • Nicole Walker TRANSLATIONS Mira Rosenthal INTERVIEWS David Iacovazzi-Pau • Dinty W. Moore • Gerald Stern • Nicole Walker BOOK REVIEWS Tyler N. Moore • Shannon K. Winston ART John Folsom • David Iacovazzi-Pau
Angela Sorby
Party at the beach!
But J refuses to go
because he can’t swim.
11 years old. All day
I watch his cuteness
break open and fall away.
He finds Etta James
on YouTube and says,
“When I’m sad, only sad
songs make me better.”
Already a needle
in his heart knows
how to find the chords
for all he’s missing:
direct sunlight, easy listening.
Already the wax
cylinder’s spinning
its old technology of longing,
and I recognize the boys I knew
in the 80s and 90s,
who dragged me to Fallout Records
so they could “look for something.”
What? It has no name, this sadness
that feels like happiness.
John Folsom (b. 1967) is a multimedia artist born and raised in Paducah, Kentucky. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University. His work explores the potential of photographic images through the intersection of digital media and painting. Known primarily for creating works that relate to the genre of grand landscape, Folsom has also produced sound pieces utilizing field recordings and vinyl records. His work resides in the permanent collections of The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, The Gibbes Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, and Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia as well as many private and public collections.
