‘Sunday Brunch’ by Sophie Panzer

Poetry

Agnes has great-grandchildren.

How’s your love life? Any men
in the picture?

Something pleading
almost desperate
in my grandmother’s ask,
but lies do not flow easily today,
they stick, they sputter
like water from frozen pipes
so I reply,

Not really, I don’t particularly
enjoy their company.

Cue wailing, as if the world
would end

and she doesn’t even know about the girl
whose hair I braid and unbraid during finals,
whose clothes I slide off
every night, and it’s not

that I don’t sometimes dream
of that warm, sticky, flour bag weight,
the seashell pink of tiny fingernails
the petal curl of brand-new toes
the pulse of cottage-cheese brain
in soft skull,
an ugly little alien
all my own.

But these days I prefer to hold
the people I can’t bring home.

 


SOPHIE PANZER recently completed her BA at McGill University. She was a finalist for the 2017 Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Prize for Young Writers and her first chapbook, Survive July, is forthcoming from Red Bird Chapbooks. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gingerbread House, Fearsome Critters, Pulp Literature, the Claremont Review, Soliloquies Anthology, Blue Marble Review, and carte blanche.

Copyright © 2018 by Sophie Panzer. All rights reserved.

‘The Spines’ by Kelsey Nichole Brooks

Photography

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“Have you ever noticed the crack of a human spine sounds just like the spine of a new book being opened? Books are a part of us all.”


KELSEY NICHOLE BROOKS is just a writer. An individual who found herself through pen ink and countless sheets of writing paper. If it’s a biography you came for then you will have to continue to read her stories, as they will tell you all you need to know about her. She is simply a writer.

Copyright © 2018 by Kelsey Nichole Brooks. All rights reserved.

‘Hands-On Study of Hands II’ by Minahil Khan

Art

 


MINAHIL KHAN, or ‘Mina’ for short, is a CEGEP student at Marianopolis College studying Arts & Sciences. When she isn’t studying, you can find her reading dystopian and mystery novels, or drawing people she knows.

Copyright © 2018 by Minahil Khan. All rights reserved.

‘Traces’ by Lauren Kleiderman

Art

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LAUREN KLEIDERMAN holds a technical diploma in Illustration and Design from Dawson College and a B.F.A. in the Specialization, Art Education – Visual Arts program at Concordia University. She continues to apply her creativity and technical skill to the general creative market as a Montreal-based freelance illustrator and is a strong supporter of promoting the arts for all through the domain of art education.

 

Copyright © 2018 by Lauren Kleiderman. All rights reserved.

‘Femme Fatale’ by Leana Paparella

Photography

A 35mm film photography series exploring ideologies of femininity and beauty on a girl’s night in.

 


LEANA PAPARELLA  is a Communications student at Concordia University who specializes in photography and videography. She is particularly interested in analog media such as film photography because of its tangibility of a moment in time.

 

Copyright © 2018 by Leana Paparella. All rights reserved.

‘Frances Dee & Lucille Ball’ by Lauren Kleiderman

Art

Graphite Drawings

 


LAUREN KLEIDERMAN holds a technical diploma in Illustration and Design from Dawson College and a B.F.A. in the Specialization, Art Education – Visual Arts program at Concordia University. She continues to apply her creativity and technical skill to the general creative market as a Montreal-based freelance illustrator and is a strong supporter of promoting the arts for all through the domain of art education.

 

Copyright © 2018 by Lauren Kleiderman. All rights reserved.

‘Leaking Laurel Tree’ by Elise Timm-Bottos

Art

Paper Cutouts on Painted Canvas / March 21, 2017

“This piece is inspired by the Greek myth of Apollo and Daphne as told in Ovid’s Metamorphosis, where Daphne turns into a laurel tree in order to avoid being raped by Apollo. This backfires because once Daphne is transformed into a tree, Apollo uses her inability to move to rip off her laurel branches and make himself a crown. This can be seen as a powerful metaphor for the pillaging of vulnerable women’s rights around the world. In this artwork, there is the flowing blood of maturity mirrored by the red leaves blossoming and sprouting on the tree.”

 

 


ELISE TIMM-BOTTOS is an artist/puppeteer who has travelled extensively in Italy, United Kingdom and the United States. She is currently studying Liberal Arts at Concordia University.

 

Copyright © 2018 by Elise Timm-Bottos. All rights reserved.