Petit Manan | Leah Nath
boardwalk greasy with entangled seaweed, the rickety path to my summer blossomed open towards ...
Medicine | Loralee Clark
If there is enough bark left, / if its trunk lying nearby / or if you were the one to fell it / you might be able to tell a tree’s identity ...
River Reflections | Scott T. Starbuck
Multitudes of hands / open and close / like sea anemones ...
After the Rockets Have Gone | Victor Wang
It was a difficult journey with the highways in disrepair, entire sections washed away into the hillside; nothing concrete could be forever. Still, he had to go––for what was left in the calcified highlands behind him was a form of loneliness he could no longer bear.
Ay ay, Mama | Stephanie French
After my first child died unexpectedly in Namibia when she was 17 days old, it took me over a year to be ready to try to conceive again. ...
More Than Spinning Wheels | Erin Hassett
Covered in dust, sweat, and bicycle chain grease, we finished the second day of our bike tour at an unexpected desert oasis somewhere in California along the Mexico border.
Nature Surrounds Us | Leila Kuhns
Leila Kuhns has been working with many media types for over five years. She has focused on ceramics for most of her time as an artist but has moved into photography more recently. When creating art, she enjoys focusing on topics that allow the audience to feel the emotion of the piece. This past [...]
Church at the Edge of the Treeline | Tea Endols
Tea Endols is a 20-year-old Transmasc Storyboard Artist and Animator from Edmonton, Canada. In 2023 he received a diploma in 2D animation and illustration from Pixel Blue college, continuing studies online. They work on many projects online, most notably an animated miniseries titled Meatgrinder. Artist's Note: I was inspired by the theme [...]
Appetite for Maternal Care | Sushmita Samaddar
In 2018, I returned to India as a newly minted master’s student from the UK, and I confessed to my mother over our first meal together that I could no longer eat her Sunday chicken. ...
Youth Voices | Write Out
Youth Voices Unearthed is honored to feature the voices of Write Out authors in our Spring 2024 issue. Write Out is an afterschool program that partners with community centers across Syracuse to get youth excited about storytelling. In our writing workshops, students explore topics of self-expression and personal experience—themes that are often [...]