KELLY SARGENT
Facets of Sight
This piece speaks to the innumerable facets of sight. Enriching layers of meaning through interpretation exist in the world, and I aspire to appreciate life as an encompassing sphere rather than a limiting circle.
Pastel pencils on charcoal paper, 8×8 inches, 2013
A Vermont writer and artist, Kelly Sargent is the author of Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion (2022) and Lilacs and Teacups (2022). Her other works, including cover and award-nominated art and poetry, have appeared or are forthcoming in more than sixty literary publications, including Rattle, Newfound, and Typehouse Literary Magazine. She serves as the creative nonfiction editor of The Bookends Review and a reviewer for an organization whose mission is to make visible the artistic expression of sexual violence survivors.
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INTERVIEW
A Conversation with Seif-Eldeine Och, Poetry Chapbook Winner, Mark Blackford, Chapbook Editor
PROSE
An LSAT of Culture, Mike Yunxuan Li
Chichi and I, Noel Cheruto
Sudden Evolution, Eileen Tomarchio
Paying for It, Lana Hall
Decay, Rachel Lastra
POETRY
do you see me, Maya Hersh
Delineation of a Woman’s First Child as Her True Religion, Abduljalal Musa Aliyu
Busted Cantaloupe: Pilgrim, Isibeal Owens
Pray the Elegy, Njoku Nonso
Semper Augustus, Jessie Zechnowitz Lim
THE SEA SQUIRT LOSES ITS MIND, Claire Scott
The Long Call of Yearning, Guy D’Annolfo
Djinn and Men, Biswadarshan Mohanty
Last Communion, Joan Kwon Glass
ART
Subway Characters #3, Taylor Yingshi
The Curl of the Sting, Denny Marshall
Cyclemaster Coffee Co., Lindsey Grant
Your Pain Is My Pain But Your Pleasure Isn’t Mine, Matina Vossou
Facets of Sight, Kelly Sargent