by TNSF | Mar 1, 2021 | Visual Art, Vol. 4, Issue 4
Chamber Coda Chamber Coda was created exclusively with the pills found in the artist’s mother’s room after a final (successful) overdose. The nation is in the midst of an opioid epidemic, but marginalized populations are at dramatically higher risks....
by TNSF | Nov 4, 2020 | Visual Art, Vol. 3, Issue 25
River Daughters I RIVER-DAUGHTERS, I, II, III, 2020 (Watercolor on canvas, 32.3 W x 46.5 H x 13 in), is a watercolor series that examines the beauty of womanhood and femininity. In the Yorubá tradition of mother Africa, the river goddess Oshun is the incorporation of...
by TNSF | Oct 7, 2020 | Nonfiction, Vol. 3, Issue 23
I can’t tell you for sure if the bat bit me; it seems important to establish that up front. What I can tell you is that when I woke it was circling my head, letting out those high-pitched squeaking sounds reminiscent of a loose wheel on a shopping cart. It was dark,...
by TNSF | May 6, 2020 | Poems, Vol. 3, Issue 12
you unknown root my wild card I had you, old woman with still-dark hair squatting by the wood stove hardly glancing at the tiny girl, the post-war baby. my daddy told me we were Blackfoot from you. so in cowboy games I wore backyard feathers. later in his dream west...
by TNSF | Apr 22, 2020 | Nonfiction, Vol. 3, Issue 11
The Mississippi River is a tapestry of waterways and swamps from which the strangest legends in the nation have mingled and emerged, bluesmen whose music has created madmen and giants in nearly every other music industry. The mythic, the cryptic, the brutal flows from...