Lauren Alwan

I love writing about art and see myself as a visual thinker.

I love writing about art and see myself as a visual thinker.

The women I paint are always portrayed not
just for their physical beauty but to emphasize their complexities, challenges, strengths and vulnerabilities.

... the dreamy interiority of the poets I loved felt like an untouchable refuge.

I paint in orange desire, he in glorious gold.

I enjoy rooms full of bright faces of all ages.

I realized that when you focus on one person, when you narrow the lens, it deepens the story.

I love all kinds of writing and forms—it's a chance to play, contort yourself into a particular kind of pattern and figure out how to write within that constraint.

Shoes for Lucy is a book of poems by Lynne Kemen, published fall 2023.

The sunflowers shine with crooked teeth. Miniature versions of suns.

Kathryn Kulpa's book of flash fiction has plenty of cooking-related works, but it is also full of dead people, ghosts, and ghost-hunters.

The common thread through everything I've done is that I always wanted to make something beautiful.

Our senses of sight and sound, imagination and inspiration, that's the center.