SUMMER 2020
POETRY
Jessica Cuello, “Dear Mother [I had a dream]”
James Phillip Davis, Teaching a Gay Poem
Brian Chander Wiora, The Rain, The Movie, The Promise
Sophia Galifianakis, Canopy
Matthew Kilbane, Andrea
K.A. Hays, It’s Not For Me But I’m Here In It
Jai Hamid Bashir, In the Primate Room With the Beloved
Leila Bilick, Shevirat Hakelim
Jan C. Grossman, North Light; Some Say
Dante Di Stefano, Elegy for McCoy Tyner
Bess Cooley, The Day My Parents Accept an Offer on My Childhood Home
Jane Zwart, Borrowing
Carolyn Guinzio, Shade; Want
Khal Torabully (Translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson), Three Poems
Maurya Simon, On Some Hand-Me-Downs from G-d
Natalie Homer, Dispatch in the Post Meridiem
Rick Hilles, My Brother, the Poet, at Nineteen
Supritha Rajan, What is it like to be a bat?
Despy Boutris, Baptism
John Okrent, April 12, 2020
Sarah Matthes, The Mercer Oak
Bryce Emley, Prayer for Return; Apostrophe for My Mother’s Ghost
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach and Luisa Muradyan, From: When the World Stopped Touching
D.R. Shipp, How to Build a Boat
Robin Gow, Escape Room With Family or A Coming Out Story
Bryce Lillmars, Dear Human
George Moore, Round World
Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Requiem
INTERVIEWS
The Food I’ve Eaten, The Weeds I’ve Picked, The Loves I’ve Had: An Interview with Ada Limón
I Have Always Loved Stories About Losers: An Interview with Ross Wilcox
Ellen Marie Leathers-Wishart is a photographer who lives in Dallas, Texas. Drawn to the utilitarian qualities of the medium, Ellen studied photography at Maryland Institute College of Art where she received her bachelor’s degree. She has since worked as an aerial photographer in Oregon and Texas. She is also a trained carpenter.
Although she has always been enchanted by the striking quality and magic of tintypes, it wasn’t until 2015 that she decided to learn how to make them herself. She apprenticed with an established photographer who taught her the process of exposing images directly onto metal plates. She then bought a large format camera and taught herself the rest.
“The people in my life are my greatest inspiration. Portraiture allows me to share the stories I see in others and tintype photography translates the stories in a very tangible way.” -Ellen Marie Leathers-Wishart
In the spring of 2018, Ellen finished building her mobile tintype studio on a 16′ trailer that can be pulled to different locations with her truck. The entire process of creating a tintype portrait can be done within her studio. On the weekends, the studio lives in the parking lot of Death or Glory, a tattoo shop off of lower Greenville Ave in Dallas, and is available by appointment only. Ellen and her studio can also be hired for weddings and other private events. However, currently everything is on hold due to the coronavirus.