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Credits and Acknowledgements

CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS      Front Cover:  Painting, “Headwind,” oil on canvas, by Jewel Okamura- Ritkes vi:   NASA Photo (James Webb Telescope) xii:  photo of Suzanne Lummis by Alexis Rhone Fancher 1:  The Poem Noir, Too Dark to Be Depressed, first published In Malpais Review, ed. Gary L. Brower, Winter 2012-13, then […]

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Contributors

    CONTRIBUTORS   Sandow Birk is a Los Angeles-based artist who creates ambitious, multimedia projects that address contemporary life and pressing social issues through the lens of art history.  His art has explored themes from Southern California urban culture to immigration, incarceration, war, and classical literature.  Notable projects include […]

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Painters on Painting

                                                Painters on Painting                     “Painting is concerned with all the ten attributes of sight: darkness and light, solidity and color, form and position, distance and nearness, motion and rest.”                                                                 Leonardo daVinci, Leonardo’s Literary Works                   “The painter who has no doubt about his own […]

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Writers on Writing

                                        “There is no left and right in writing.  There is only good and bad writing.”                                 Ernest Hemingway, Letter to Paul Romaine, 1932, Selected Letters, 363                   “In truly good writing no matter how many times […]

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Debbie Green’s Art Studio

Debbie Green was a folk singer who had an early influence on Joan Baez, Eric Anderson, Eric Clapton, and others in the 1960s.  She was one of the first folk performers at Club 47 Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before moving to Berkeley, California.  She was born in 1940 in […]