spring 2020
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Six Gray Moons on a Screen
Eleanor Kedney
There Is No Substitute for Good Planning
Erin Kirsh
sold separately Lesley Battler
Family Dinner
In Which I Re-name My Father
Poem Containing Only Words I Hate
griffin epstein
A Twohanded Cut
The Tornado Cut
The Pandora Cut
Torben Robertson
Breathturning Chris Checkwitch
Communion of Tongues
Hege A. Jakobsen Lepri
blue light
Stephanie Yue Duhem
Like the best myths
Medusozoa
Sarah Lyons-Lin
A Symptom of Resignation
The Gee Whiz Element of Tropical Storms and Symphonies
Jen Karetnick
Stem of Old French Creistre, To Grow
Of Stinging Nettle
Page Hill Starzinger
Humid Weather
Me of Me
Catherine Strisik
Another Vision
Patricia Nelson
Tchaikovsky, Age 52, Finds His Inspiration
John Barton
she is in the kitchen now
Nora Pace
Supermarket Lobsters
Robbie Gamble
Monologue of a Fly's Shadow
Monologue of a Cow's Shadow
Danielle Hanson
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Nachos
Jessica Covil
Moon Turned Her Half Face From Me
Lawrence Feuchtwanger
Spring 2020 Issue Cover Art
by Varian Loo
Rhymes With Orange, 2016
Oil, Acrylic, and Door Hinge on panel
8 x 8 inches (20.32 x 20.32 cm)
In my work I combine conflict, absurdity, and humor in an attempt to astonish and confuse the viewer. I want the audience to consider ideas of structure and placement, their cultural background and social construct. As an immigrant of Chinese parents, growing up in Canada, I understand hyphenation.
“Rhymes with Orange” is piece that has great opportunity to create comedic play between words and imagery. The Maynard always has an orange on its cover, and typically those are still life paintings. I decided not to submit a still life painting to The Maynard, but rather a word-puzzle in the form of a one-liner. I was testing the editors, curious to see if they would get the play on the phrase and image.
In Rap, which many consider a form of poetry, and also in Hip Hop, rhyming efficiently within subject matter is called “bars.” In an interview with the rapper Eminem, he mentioned that he could rhyme the word “orange” with “door hinge.” That interview stayed in my mind and became the idea to screw a door hinge to an 8 x 8 primed wood panel, and on the hinge paint an orange.
