Apfelbaum
Apfelbaum by Laura J. Braverman
Apfelbaum
Short Films, Spoken Word, Music, and Visual Art.
Genavieve Coleman is a professional communicator, living and working in Shanghai. She has lived in many places and always seems to find herself studying people and learning languages, even in random public bathrooms in the dead of winter. She has been writing stories, seeing the world through photography, and studying mankind since she could imagine.
While hurtling through Bangkok on the metro I was struck by the common emotion found in the riders at the end of a busy day. Sometimes we notice important things without realizing they are important, such as reading a face in the blink of an eye or interpreting body language simultaneously in several seconds of rubbing up against someone. These candid “open” moments are often displayed unaware, without the individual cognitively recognizing how their body is sharing about their day or life. Here, in the line of folks riding out of town after a long, hot day, I was able to see a few moments.
Tired, Digital photography, 2018.
ACE BOGGESS is an author of three books of poetry, most recently Ultra Deep Field (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017), and the novel A Song Without a Melody (Hyperborea Publishing, 2016). His fourth poetry collection, I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press. His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, RATTLE, River Styx, North Dakota Quarterly and many other journals. He lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
Advice for Saying Hello
PETER KAHN lives on a small farm in southeastern Wisconsin. He spends most of his time guarding the bird feeder with a pellet gun, otherwise writing, painting, or taking pictures.
1. Hanging Out & Hanging On, photo, 3000×4000 pixels, 2018
2. Nova’s Bedroom, photo, 4000×3000 pixels, 2018
3. Prick, photo, 4000×3000 pixels, 2018
4. Shadow of the Virgin, photo, 4000×3000 pixels, 2018
5. She’s Like Natural Music Any Way She Moves, photo, 4000×3000 pixels, 2018
CAEDMON is a computer who is learning to create art. In March, 2017, Caedmon started its’ “travel” in the art world, trying to learn what art is from a huge corpora of artwork from the past. Caedmon shares its’ artistic production online, and uses his followers’ likes as a feedback mechanism in order to automatically adjust its’ process. This interactive, artistic experiment, which draws its’ inspiration from the process of natural selection, has already gathered a lot of interest, and the project’s twitter page already has more than 7000 followers. If you are interested in Caedmon’s artwork, you can find it on twitter (@ImCaedmon) or you can visit the website www.caedmon.it where you can find some more detailed information about the project, as well as some articles and interviews which were already published on various media.
computer-generated image from Caedmon’s website
computer-generated image from Caedmon’s website
computer-generated image from Caedmon’s website
computer-generated image from Caedmon’s website
computer-generated image from Caedmon’s website
KELLY KING WALDEN blogs at kellylogos.net, which is also her Twitter handle (without the net:) She has raised children (4, one from Ethiopia) and mentors teens and college students. She created an ACT Prep business, which she runs, and writes on the side for various online magazines and a local magazine. She has only published one poem, at Plough Quarterly. She has a Master’s in English and has taught school and college in the past.
KARL ZUEHLKE’s poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2016, DIAGRAM, The Loaded Bicycle, Jazz Cigarette, Inscape: A Journal of Literature and Art, and elsewhere. His interviews appeared in American Literary Review. He won Best Creative Presentation at the University of North Texas’ Critical Voices Conference 2014 for translations of an East German Poet. He holds a PhD from the University of North Texas, and an M.F.A from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a former Lannan Fellow and Mary Patchell Scholarship recipient. He teaches at Tallahassee Community College.
Shed, Acrylic on Masonite, 12X12 inches, 2017
Fence, Acrylic on Masonite, 12X12 inches, 2017
Flower box, Acrylic on Masonite, 12X12 inches, 2017
Porch, Acrylic on Masonite, 12X12 inches, 2017
Stairs, Acrylic on Masonite, 12X12 inches, 2017
CYNTHIA MORRISON resides within the Bermuda Triangle. She is a writer and an award-winning playwright with theatrical works featured Off-Broadway in New York City. She is also a graduate of the Burt Reynolds Institute. Her stage play “Words with a Mummy” is published inside “21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World” as a textbook lesson in “adaptation of a play from literature”
Gladiator
LESLIE D. SOULE is a fantasy/sci-fiction author from Sacramento, CA. She has an M.A. in English and is currently working on the final book of her fantasy series, The Fallenwood Chronicles.
Met An Angel Once
NAT GIRSBERGER is a Swiss visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She collaborates with her unconscious to explore deep layers of being through collage. Girsberger adventures into the infinity of her psyche, breaking the structures that externally limit her inner vastness, creating new worlds that suit it. Her most recent exhibits include her solo show at Ivy Brown Gallery in Chelsea called ‘Transient Terrain,’ and shows at The Living Gallery Outpost, Carrie Able Gallery, 301 Studio.
Not What I Expected, Collage on Paper, 2017, 8×11
Drop Down, Collage on Paper, 2017, 8×6
Tune In, Collage on Paper, 2018, 6×9
Road Trip, Collage on Paper, 2017, 7×12
Realm of Nightmares, Digital Collage, 2018
Cosmic Drifters, Collage on Paper, 2017, 8×6