Many of the Muslims had lived in Siska all their lives, but now their former neighbors evicted them. “Go to Bosnia.“ One man hurled a stone. “Monkeys!” Others hurled bricks, boulders, or manure. While their homes burned behind them, the refugees took to the road. Spring had just arrived. The sun warmed this wind-swept town [...]
Dual Retribution by Jolyn Wells-Moran
It was only slightly damp, warm, a kind of humor between her strong hands as she kneaded the golden clay. She knew she was procrastinating. So much of her time was caught up those days in a dreaming haze of thinking about creating her pots, rather than creating them. She wondered if she would just [...]
Idols by Mary Fox
Marble women are the ones I admire most. Their soft stone flesh smoothing away centuries of Sensual concern. I stare in disbelief, the artistic Settling of the struggle speaking from within the Shine of calculated curves, A man’s dreams. Spellbound, I approach myself. A shape planned and surveyed by someone whose Face I can’t distinguish [...]
All Praise To She Who Takes A Stand by Katherine Friedrich
All praise to she who stands, arms like swords, and calls an apocalypse when she sees it, and takes a stake in what is needed. All praise to she who takes a stand with unbreakable flesh and a heart like a wound open to the turmoil of the world and then she sings— yeah, she [...]
In Metal Houses, Behind Hanging Cloth by Amy Schoenfeld
This past spring I traveled to Bangladesh, not as a photographer, but as a graduate student researching arsenic contamination of the country’s groundwater. Drinking and cooking with arsenic-laced water can cause cancer and other diseases. Yet most people in Bangladesh use well water to avoid bacterial disease from surface waters. This situation makes for a [...]
Painting the Feminine by Jennifer Downey
Artists often have specific subjects, symbols or motifs that recur in their work, sometimes for only certain periods in their career, sometimes throughout its entire span. Monet made countless paintings of the flowers in his Giverny garden. Georgia O’Keefe painted the shapes of skulls and flowers over and over. Sculptor Deborah Butterfield has been creating [...]
