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Spring Issue 2025
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Thomas Riesner – Art
Quite spontaneously and suddenly, it literally bubbles out of him-his expressive, intuitive painting style is reflected in his archaic-seeming figures…
John Gamboa – Art
This suite of paintings is based on images appropriated from fashion illustrations found in issues of The Delineator magazine dating…
Claudia Wysocki – Photography
Wysocky believes in the transformative power of art and views writing as a vital force that inspires her daily. Her…
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American Playground
It’s 1971, and 7-year-old Mishel Manoucherian’s family has packed up their life in Tehran and moved to Los Angeles, launching him headfirst into a disorienting new world of social and schoolyard expectations. At once a witty and warm exploration of the immigrant experience and coming of age tale, American Playground illuminates the Iranian American experience through a child’s unique perspective.
Full of heart, humor and insight, American Playground explores the tensions between assimilation and identity, a child’s desperation to pass as one of many, and the age-old conflict between Bugs Bunny and everyone who’s out to “kill the wabbit.” Bringing a fresh perspective to classic genres, Shokrian’s writing recalls the honesty and ferocity of classic Los Angeles writers Fante and Bukowski, with a modern immigrant’s twist.
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Claudia Wysocki – Photography
Wysocky believes in the transformative power of art and views writing as a vital force that inspires her daily. Her…
David Borofka – Fiction
It sounds like a joke, doesn’t it, or the beginning of one? Three gunmen enter a bar? Only there were…
Debbie Graber – Fiction
Rich and I hit a few balls, when he pulled me off the court, his finger up to his lips….
Harvey Huddleston – Fiction
Sat with two guys at chow. One a ball turret gunner I flew with a few missions back. Before takeoff…
Johnny Elder – 2 Poems
We walk along slowly, as a way of catching our breath, holding it close and unpolluted, the old radio, in front of…
Art
Phillip Rowan – Art
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Channie Greenberg – Digital Art, Installment 2
KJ Hannah Greenberg tilts at social ills and encourages personal evolutions via poetry, prose, and visual art.
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