THE EXHIBITION
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THE EXHIBITION •
‘Tatters’
Ruth Zwald When an astrologer told her she had no “earth” in her birth sign, Ruth set about finding ways to ground. On her farm in West Michigan, Ruth starts every day with good coffee, tends large gardens, and lives close to the earth through her lifestyle and spiritual practices. Upon retirement, she also started to unearth words. In 2024, Ruth was named winner of the Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest for her collection entitled, “Bones And Breath.” She has also been published in several periodicals, most recently in Farmer-ish Journal, Poetry For Mental Health, The Guilded Weathervane, The Bluebird Word, and Tangled Locks.
‘Winsome Spirit’
Jenny McBride’s writing has appeared in Grub Street Literary Magazine, Common Ground Review, DASH Literary Journal, The California Quarterly, Streetwise, 300 Days of Sun, Rockford Review, Inscape, and elsewhere. She makes her home in the rainforest of southeast Alaska.
‘MATINÉE’
Edward Johnson is a civil rights attorney who has spent the past 30 years representing people living on and over the edge of homelessness. One of his cases involving the fundamental rights of people forced to live outside, Johnson v. Grants Pass went to the Supreme Court of the United States in 2024. He is currently living in a cabin in the North Cascades working on poems, old and new. He has work recently out or forthcoming from Eclectica Magazine, Down in the Dirt, Beatnik Cowboy, Indefinite Space, Main Street Rag, Ginosko Literary Journal, Packingtown Review, cc&d , The Dissident Voice, Evergreen Review, Double Dutch and Whisk(ey) Tit.
‘Roses and Lilacs’
Delilah James has spent the first seventeen years of her life in western New York before shipping up to Vermont for school. Delilah is currently in her second year of a Champlain College filmmaking BFA at the moment, specializing in screenwriting.