Arts

Making Eve

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:02:24 +0100

Spewed out of God's Sixth Day WIDEopen post utero mouth, these zygotes,twin embryos, now grown, one buriedinside the other, tumblefall into Eden.History's first birth defect.That story about the rib?History's first cover-up.Nixon, listen up.God did it, too!No woman to ride side saddlefor long, Eve sharpens overgrownnails, aliens her way freethrough Adam's wimpy chest.She flirts with the serpent,finishes off the apple, tossesAdam the worm and the core.Original sin. What fun, she trills.With a sha ...

Meet the Cover Artist: Malgorzata Jasinska

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:12:11 +0100

Artist StatementEven as a little girl I was extremely introverted, creative, and imaginative. I'm a loner and people think I'm strange, but some of them appreciate my very subjective point of view.My name is Malgorzata Weronika Jasinska but I am also known as eempatiaa / empatia or Inf3ctedDoll. I have spent my lonely childhood in a city called Grudziadz (Poland) and I still live here. When I was little I used to make a lot of drawings, especially portraits of Manga & Anime characters. I al ...

Featured Poet: Heather Schimel

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:25:01 +0100

About Heather SchimelHeather Schimel graduated in 2005 with a degree in English from Oswego State University. Since then, she has worked with doctors, law enforcement, and librarians. In her work, she draws from topics such as father/daughter relationships, sexism, hatred of the body, love, and much more. She was born in New York, but currently lives in the desert polishing boots, catching strange bugs in jars, and writing. She dedicates all her work to JNB, because witho ...

Seven

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:49:57 +0100

"If there was someway to make me have never been age seven, I would have chosen it. It would have remained the number of the days in a week, or the number in a game of hopscotch I would have thrown a pebble in and giddily hopped over, but never would it have been the number I would have ever lived." &nb ...

Agent Orange: Infancy

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:20:14 +0100

She hikedSplit hoovesSplit lipSun then moon then sun againCrinkle earedSmash faced catHad whimperedScampered awayLeaving a trail of fleas like bread crumbsShe thought:Beauty has been drained of this place(If only she had brought a coffin, proper)But in the end she let the dust dry(Just as good)When the wind hit her mouthIt was like chewing on chalkHer lips swollen blaze of mid-dayLimbs burning from exhaustionHer body ached for shadeDust creased in crows feetThats when she saw himHe was in a l ...

Weather Report

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:06:02 +0100

the potato woman raises one eye against the wrongful night, clutchingeach alien root like a childin her dirty skirts. tonight's harvest is a mouth not the white rock nor the mountain she had in mind, but a bit of colortowards her unbornher face holds far too much lightningto even speak of storms. her ears dream that everything is soon and that good moonlightwill eclipse the parenthesis of her memoriesshe has made her thighs the earth and movesthe fields with cold, broken flesh her scars, his co ...

Meet the Cover Artist: Escha van den Bogerd

Sat, 31 May 2008 13:02:40 +0100

Artist StatementPainting is my passion my life, and is about sharing thoughts and emotions with others. My works of art have become extremely personal; they are an emotional response to my surroundings and experiences. These are reflections of joy, hope, peace, and sadness.BiographyEscha van den Bogerd was born in The Hague, Holland and started painting at the age of 3. In The Hague, she attended the Rudolf Steiner school, a school with many art subjects including painting, drawing, and art his ...

Featured Poet: Pris Campbell

Sat, 31 May 2008 13:00:40 +0100

About Pris CampbellAmong other Journals and Poetry Collections, Pris Campbell's free verse poetry has been published in Poems Niederngasse, MiPo Publications (print/digital/radio), Boxcar Poetry Review (her poem in the May 2007 issue won the issue's peer award), The Cliffs: Soundings, Empowerment4Women, The Dead Mule: An Anthology of Southern Literature, In The Fray, Tears in the Fence, and Thunder Sandwich. She has two chapbooks, Abrasions and Interchangeable Goddesses, the latter with Tammy T ...

Meet the Cover Artist: Jacqui Bellamy

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:00:42 +0100

Artist Statement

A graduate in Fine Art, Jacqui founded Pixelwitch Pictures in 2004 as an umbrella for her photography and film-making skills.

Featured Poet: Annette Marie Hyder

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:00:42 +0100

An Introduction by the PoetThe good mother, the bad mother, the other motherThese poems all have motherhood as their subject. Some of the mothers delineated are very plainly good or bad. Others are ambiguous, more nuanced in their shading. Still others are that "other" mother. The mother that doesn't give birth to the child but who shapes and bends the child in the way that a basket maker weaves rushes or twigs into the shape that can inform the basket's purpose. And three of the ...

Meet the Cover Artist: Anastasia Ponyatosvakya

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:00:00 +0100

Artist Statement: Anastasia Ponyatovskaya graduated as an artist from the college in Sankt-Petersburg, Russia and Academy of art in Moldova. After joining the Union of Artists in 2004, she has become widely revered for her unique style and imagination and has participated in many art exhibitions across the world, including: Moldova, UK, Russia, Germany, Latvia, Malta, Gozo, and Italy.

Meet the Cover Artist: Diane Archer

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:00:00 +0100

Artist Statement: My work focuses on issues of female body image in a contemporary context. I am particularly interested in how women view themselves, and how this perception is altered by contemporary western society. I have worked with man-made archetypal images of women in my previous work, using images of mannequins and showing a comparison to a real, flesh and blood woman. I am fascinated by the "plastic-ness" of the modern ideal, which makes itself known in the media, celebritie ...

Meet the Cover Artist: Lisa Selby

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Artist Statement: I am a Brighton based artist and studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Each year I participate in the Brighton open house/studio exhibitions.My paintings are either self portraits or are based on close female friends of mine. The original images are selected from snapshots in which the subject is highly aware of the viewer. Colors are usually highly saturated and contrasting. The captured glances convey poignant moments and experiences, whether physical or emotional ...