Julie Swarstad Johnson is the author of Pennsylvania Furnace (Unicorn Press, 2019) and co-editor of Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight (University of Arizona Press, 2020). She has served as Artist in Residence at Gettysburg National Military Park, which led to the chapbook Orchard Light (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020). She lives in Tucson and works at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
browsing category: Winter 2021-2022
A NATURAL HISTORY OF GAY LOVE Knowing our land used to rest deep down, south of Florida, long before Google street view,
Alex Checkovich is an instructor of “the body in space” at the University of Richmond, where he teaches freshmen seminars called “Nature-,”
Natural ice is a magnet, dull-gray and powerful. It calls to me, an amateur ice enthusiast and a recreational ice skater. I was born in 1967,
Artist's Statement Autumn 2020 I rented a small cottage on Cape Cod ‘to reclaim a large area of peace in myself. ‘
Nadya’s arms had tingled exactly this way once before. She’d been nine the day the leaves of the tree outside their box
I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Nebraska A mass dream of pastures, brome pelted by starlight, villages foldingin on themselves to feed
April. – The first few arrive like memories, swifting themselves back into the mind. There – one’s flitted behind the high tide
DREAM_SCAPE Wave Utopia Ascending Paths That Cross Artist's Statement My work is an exploration of materials found in nature that results
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