Babo Kamel
Prepositionless Protest
always alone
before bots bounced
cocksure calamities
dodging death
extending evening's
fictions
ghosting girls
hashtag harm, hashtag hags, hashtag hysterical
illnesses inserting intransigent
jingoists
kidnapping keystrokes
lounging lakeside
marketing
noblesse
oblige
promising poetry's
quiet quagmires
rusting roadside
soliloquies starbound
tankas testing truth
ubiquitous under
verses vilifying
white washing
xenophobes
yielding
zealots
Rewritten
A man played a song he had not yet written
Some lines lost at daybreak can never be written
He rose up past the angels tumbling
They graced him with messages as they had been written
I tried to find him in a dream thick with feathers
He gave me a letter that will not be written
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water"
Keats died young, left so much unwritten
A harlequin stood stranded on the fence below
He hid his instructions and forgot what was written
A man begged his flute for a note to remember
He reached for a book in which the sky is written
We wore masks, stayed apart as we had been bidden
About this time, Babo, what will be written
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| AUTHOR BIO |
| As a dual citizen Babo Kamel splits her time between Montreal, Quebec and Gorham, Maine. Her work has appeared in the Greensboro Review, Lily, CV2, Poet Lore, and Best Canadian Poetry 2020 among others. She is a Best of Net nominee, and a seven time Pushcart nominee. Her chapbook, After, is published with Finishing Line Press. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson’s Program For Writers. Her book, What The Days Wanted is published with Broadstone Books. |
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| POETRY CONTRIBUTORS |
 Grace Bauer
Hilary Biehl
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas
Julia Griffin
A. A. Gunther
Katie Hartsock
Ruth Hoberman
Babo Kamel
Jean L. Kreiling
Lavinia Kumar
Jenna Le
Marjorie Maddox
Mary Grace Mangano
Kathleen McClung
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
T. R. Poulson
Richelle Slota
Linda Stern
Myrna Stone
Gail White
Amanda Williamsen
Joyce Wilson
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| Anna Lee Hafer is a studio artist based in the Philadelphia area whose work is heavily influenced by such famous surrealist painters as René Magritte, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Picasso, all of whom strove to build their own realities through small glimpses into a particularly confusing, but utterly unique worldview that dictates its own specific set of instructions. With references to the laws and physics of Alice's Wonderland, the artist challenges the audience's inherent understanding of perspective, reality, and universal order.
In her work, Hafer pours and layers paint to create dimension and texture, mixing different styles and colors onto each other until they produce a 3D effect. Through marker and pencil that create shadow, she further enhances these forms and separates them from the background. Heavier layers and thicker brushstrokes in the foreground of her work push the painting toward the viewer, whereas the thinner layers and small brushstrokes in the background, elongate the space and push away from the viewer. By juxtaposing interior and exterior elements, Hafer makes the audience question whether they are looking at something inside or outside.
For additional information, please visit www.hafer.work.
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