Pamela Daum / “Henry House, Manassas Battlefield”
Part of a series called New Cathedrals, photographs taken in parking garages throughout the Miami area. As the sun began to set, the garage became suffused with a beautiful, gold-orange light, a natural Rothko-like painting that lasted for a few minutes and then was gone.
Fiction
Nate Haken, The Vine and the Branches
Emily Elbom, Everybody Doing Pretty Here
Risa Mickenberg, She Wasn’t Their Mother
Poetry
Gillian Hamel, NO DISASTER 113 / NO DISASTER 354 / NO DISASTER 083
Ely Shipley, The Witch Doctor Told Me / Like a Bird which Alights Nowhere
Maxine Chernoff, Word / Traced
Claudia Keelan, [I keep my thrive alive by youth and joy] / [I sing of lies better left unsaid] / [I’ve been thrown into hell] / [True love brings its share of joy]
Adam Strauss, [All Glass Used To Be Green] / [To Earth We]
Witness blends the features of a literary and an issue-oriented magazine to highlight the role of the modern writer as witness to his or her times. Launched in Detroit in 1987, the magazine is best known for showcasing work that defines its historical moment; special issues have focused on political oppression, religion, the natural world, crime, aging, civil rights, love, ethnic America, and exile. The issues “New Nature Writing,” “The Sixties,” “Sports in America,” and “The Best of Witness, 1987 – 2004” eventually appeared as university press anthologies. In 2007, Witness moved to Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The magazine publishes one print issue and one online issue a year, and increasingly seeks out work that contextualizes the American experience by highlighting issues of global concern.
