Outlook Good! Mikki Aronoff and Katherine Silver-Hajo __________ Math exam looming, me procrastinating, I tune in to the probability of a passing grade like a luminous radio dial, unfazed by the static of Long John Silver’s tatty parrot, shoulder-bound but hankering for a branch, squawking salty bilge—Pieces of nine! Pieces…
Read MoreLetter from the Guest Editor Jade Turner __________ Reading the submissions for this issue was a wonderful opportunity to appreciate how rich it can be to step outside of ourselves and connect and engage with other artists and works. Thank you for everyone’s submissions. May you keep connecting and engaging…
Read MoreCannibal Chelsey Wright __________ After “Scarf Fetish” by Heather Ryan Kelley __________ There are red scarves hanging on a laundry rack in a secret market,watching one be sold and exploitedto a plump model with good taste and a man with blue-tinted teeth. His blue-tinted teeth remind me of the album…
Read Moreen route Jerry Sloan __________ After an art installation by Heather Ryan Kelley __________ you drink water to take pills (favorite mug, borrowedseven years ago from a communal kitchen, shows the cover of Dubliners by James Joyce) and walk to the gallery, past storefront signs for the suicide hotline (“call/text…
Read MoreAfter a Painting by Heather Ryan Kelley Michael Robins __________ —for my brother We might stare, crowding the high,storybook windows, our worrytold in the pictures of us kids. If Iam six & you’ll be eleven: if a threadround my little finger at breakfastor a napkin made honest with a ring.Already…
Read MoreInnocent Eye, 2000 Madeline Ricard __________ After the painting by Heather Ryan Kelley __________ Pasted onto patchy paper worth morethan I could afford when I was in art school,photocopied Barbie legs meet my gaze. The black & white legs flutter and danceon top of cursive letters — ii, f, jjj,…
Read MoreOn the body (Cento with Emma Bolden and Shaindel Beers) Dusti RW Levy __________ Listen, even the birds sometimes believe their trees are singing.There’s a sound the wind makes with the leaves, like the mind always is.Like my mind always is. I was just standing in a moment of impossible…
Read MoreWorld Book Heather Ryan Kelley __________ 2025, altered book (materials: fabric, leather, relief print, oil on zinc plate,marbled paper, stoppered bottles, and eye cup),10 x 8 x 1.75 inches __________ << Back Next >> To learn more about submitting your work to Boudin or applying to McNeese State University’s Creative…
Read MoreSeeing Stars Heather Ryan Kelley __________ 2024, oil on canvas, 10 x 8 inches __________ << Back Next >> To learn more about submitting your work to Boudin or applying to McNeese State University’s Creative Writing MFA program, please visit Submissions for details.
Read MoreSeeing America Heather Ryan Kelley __________ 2021, oil on canvas, 10 x 20 inches __________ << Back Next >> To learn more about submitting your work to Boudin or applying to McNeese State University’s Creative Writing MFA program, please visit Submissions for details.
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