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Editor's Letter
Quarantine lifts. We emerge from our cocoons and venture outside. In this latter half of 2021—after over a year and a half cloistered in solitary quarantine—we reexamine what it means to be social. To engage with others—not just other people, but the outside world. We relearn relationships.
In this issue, our writers, poets, and artists delve into relationships of all kinds. Intimate, personal relationships between children, mothers, fathers, friends, and potential lovers. Abstract societal relationships and relationships with our pasts, memories, and self-image. Between humans and nature. Between citizens and cities. Between patients and healthcare. Our featured artist Miya Turnbull's mask making deconstructs portraiture and explores one's relationship with self. The connective thread that tethers us to the interior and exterior world is significant; MASKS Literary Magazine is thrilled to present how creatives have plumbed these relational depths.
- L.A. Hawbaker
In this issue, our writers, poets, and artists delve into relationships of all kinds. Intimate, personal relationships between children, mothers, fathers, friends, and potential lovers. Abstract societal relationships and relationships with our pasts, memories, and self-image. Between humans and nature. Between citizens and cities. Between patients and healthcare. Our featured artist Miya Turnbull's mask making deconstructs portraiture and explores one's relationship with self. The connective thread that tethers us to the interior and exterior world is significant; MASKS Literary Magazine is thrilled to present how creatives have plumbed these relational depths.
- L.A. Hawbaker
POETRY
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." - Robert Frost
Wendy BoodyGraaff
Mary Bowman
Clara Burghelea |
Wendell Hawken
Stephanie Pritchard
Sean Swogger |
FICTION
"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth." - Albert Camus
Aisan L. Afshar
Ryan Everett Felton
Arden Hunter |
Alyson Mann
Jody Rae |
NONFICTION
"One of the underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose
narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material." - William Zinsser
narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material." - William Zinsser
Sarah (Qiuqi) Bovold
Jennifer Liss |
Nathaniel Mellor
Muchen Wang |
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MASKS Literary Magazine was founded in the spring of 2021 as part of the Columbia College Chicago Library's Aesthetics of Research Program-an ongoing series of exhibits, events, and other shenanigans dedicated to exploring the role that libraries play in artistic process, creative community building, and resource-sharing in the arts.
© COPYRIGHT 2021. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. IMAGES ARE PRESENTED FOR USE AS FINE ART. PURCHASE OF ART DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A LICENSE FOR COMMERCIAL USE. ALL ART, PHOTOS, AND PRINTS WILL STILL CARRY COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS, AND PHOTOCOPYING, SCANNING, AND REUSE ARE PROHIBITED WITHOUT PRIOR CONSENT OF THE ARTIST.
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