from "Tea cookies" by Isha Mital @thoots.s in 2.2 of Where Meadows.
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ISHA MITAL is a visual artist and poet whose work focuses on the simplicity, sweetness, and imperfection of life. Her use of line and color is concise yet purposeful, evoking a symphony of flavors that is colored with specks of whimsy.
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#collage #nature #meadow #wheremeadows
from "Thorns" by Kelly DuMar @helengwynjones in 2.2 of Where Meadows.
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A 2024 Best of the Net finalist and three-time nominee, HELEN GWYN JONES started recording her world at the age of eight when she bought a Brownie camera from her sister, something which has become a lifelong passion. A collector of the past, (hers and other people’s), she likes nothing better than muted images of imperfection. She is oft found poring over Welsh grammar books when not photographing drains or rapturing over rust. She is recently published at Heimat, Feral, Transients, Lunar, Quibble, Paddler, Moss Puppy, Storyteller’s Refrain, and Full House Literary.
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#collage #nature #meadow #wheremeadows
from "Katama Meadow—Day’s End" by Kelly DuMar @kellydumarpoetry in 2.2 of Where Meadows.
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KELLY DUMAR is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator from Boston. She’s author of four poetry collections, including jinx and heavenly calling, published by Lily Poetry Review Books in March 2023. Her poems and images are published in Bellevue Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Thrush, Glassworks, Flock and more, and her images have been featured on the cover of About Place, Synkroniciti, Cool Beans, Etymology, Confetti and Young Ravens Literary Review. Kelly teaches a variety of creative writing workshops, in person and online, and she teaches Play Labs for the International Women’s Writing Guild and the Transformative Language Arts Network. Her home is the rural Charles River where she walks and captures images of the wetlands in all weather. Reach her at kellydumar.com.
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#photography #meadow #wheremeadows
from "All That is Solid Melts Into Wind" by Selen Ozturk in 2.2 of Where Meadows.
"They cluster with hedgerows and perch with sea-cliffs. Not until Sea Ranch did I know architecture to be as much a form of thought as a plan of action. It is a paradise at the world’s end."
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SELEN OZTURK is a San Francisco-based writer born in Istanbul. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in publications including Evergreen Review, California Quarterly, Hobart, Bayou Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, and SFGATE. Her work has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She holds a philosophy degree from UC Berkeley and works as a journalist. She loves Morrissey and tennis. Find her work at freeverse.blog.
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#nonfiction #architecture #litmag #wheremeadows
from "O Brother" by Thomas Larson in 2.2 of Where Meadows.
"The week after Steve died, a later day in April, I thought about that moment with the forsythia and how I awakened, triggered because my brother acknowledged, if not created, that moment for me."
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THOMAS LARSON’s website archives nearly 400 of his publications over the past 30 years, information about his four books, and new writing every few weeks. He lives in San Diego, CA: .
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#nonfiction #death #litmag #wheremeadows
from "Doehood" by Iris Ouellette (@iofleur ) in 2.2 of Where Meadows.
"Bright red blood—so bright it looked fake, like ketchup or a bad Halloween costume—billowed out around the fawn’s back end. I couldn’t tell if it was alive until it suddenly opened its deep brown eyes and looked at me, right into my own eyes."
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IRIS OUELLETTE holds an MA and MFA in Fiction from Wilkes University's Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in New Square, Parhelion Literary Magazine, and Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing. She is an Assistant Teaching Professor of English and Writing at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, and lives in Northeastern Pennsylvania with her husband, dog, and three cats. When she isn't writing, she is either gardening, floating in a lake, or panicking—probably about nothing.
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#prose #fawn #litmag #wheremeadows
from "Cicada Songs" by Sergio Brito (@skergio ) in 2.2 of Where Meadows.
"Naked. My body sheds its skin. Painfully, I peel it, leave it in one piece. I am new again. New boundaries, protected by high-pitched ringing. Newborn body, free of blemish; born again in song."
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SERGIO BRITO is a an unpublished emerging writer based in Los Angeles. Working in construction by day, his writing draws from his coming of age as the eldest son in a working class Mexican immigrant family.
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#prose #nature #litmag #wheremeadows
from "The Bridge" by Sarah Harley (@sarahharley888 ) in 2.2 of Where Meadows.
"My father says the river and the soup are not the same. He says there’s a clay quarry nearby, a shallow pit in the ground. That’s why the river runs slowly. The clay is excavated and used to make bricks and pipes.
I see the river turning to stone."
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SARAH HARLEY is originally from the UK. She works at Milwaukee High School of the Arts where she supports her refugee students in telling their own stories. Sarah holds a BA in Comparative Literature and French, as well as an MA in Foreign Language and Literature. Her essays have appeared in Halfway Down the Stairs, Idle Ink, Glassworks Magazine, West Trade Review, and elsewhere: .
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from "Re-tracing (No. 1)" by Aaron Lelito (@aaronlelito ) in 2.2 of Where Meadows.
"I would follow it—
the missing piece—
because my edges
are no longer distinct
from their surroundings."
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AARON LELITO is a visual artist and writer from Buffalo, NY. His poetry chapbook, The Half Turn, was published in 2023, and his work has also appeared in Barzakh Magazine, Novus Literary Arts Journal, SPECTRA Poets, Peach Mag, and Santa Fe Review. He is Editor in Chief of the art & literature website Wild Roof Journal and published a collaborative notebook/art collection titled If We, which is available at wildroofjournal.com.
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#poem #drive #litmag #wheremeadows
from "The Way We Water" by Sarah Vardaro (@sare_bear_vee ) in 2.2 of Where Meadows.
"One day, drought came
to unbury the river’s corpse
where sand condemned to silt,
sucked at roots of leafless trees
We made the desert bloom again
and that is all we ever wanted"
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SARAH VARDARO is an Australian poet who found a new home among the oaks, pines, and rushing rivers of California. Her poems are grounded in the land and humankind's place among the beings with whom we share this world.
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#poem #california #litmag #wheremeadows
from "Schrödinger’s Birdcage" by Terry Ann Wright in 2.2 of Where Meadows.
"Flat tresses, long skirts, denuded vines & forgotten
wineglasses balanced on the wooden casket.
You hold your gloved hand aloft, braced &
steady. Yeats’ falconer seizes your vision."
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TERRY ANN WRIGHT’s poem “Juniper Tree” was longlisted for the 2022 Sappho Prize and appears in her 2023 chapbook Mädchen, from dancing girl press. Recent poems have appeared in Red Ogre Review, Stanza Cannon, Bear Flag Review, a moon of one’s own, The Hyacinth Review, Ghost Girls, and The Shore; previously in anthologies by Cadence Collective, Sadie Girl Press, and Picture Show Press; and chapbooks mad honey (2018) by dancing girl press and Nature Studies (2015) by Sadie Girl Press, whose title poem was her third Pushcart Prize nomination.
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