Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters

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A new quarterly literary journal publishing 5 poems, 2 prose works, and original visual art. SUBS OPEN 2/1-3/15 Co-founders/editors @djvorreyer.bsky.social and @rebunting.bsky.social http://www.asteralesjournal.com

Shadows draw upon the lowly parts as if they were the artist and not whichever light source was kind enough to share its labor. I wonder how much of art in luminosity and how much of it is fear. Adam Gianforcaro, "As Above, So Below"
Open for Submissions August 1-September 15 asteralesjournal.com/submissions
Manifest - Cynthia Arrieu-King Who Will Cradle Your Head? - Jared Beloff Cataloguing Pain - Allison Blevins Split Map - Rebecca Kirk Connors Handbook for Unwell Mothers - Jill Crammond Yeet - jason b. crawford Climbing A Burning Rope - John Paul Davis This Side of Utopia - Thad DeVassie Yes, I Am Human, I Know You Were Wondering -Erin Dorney
Issue 7 New Work from Poetry: Adam Gianforcaro, Sally Rosen Kindred, Carolee Bennett, AJ Wright, Samuel Day Wharton, Jill Crammond, & Jane Zwart Visual Art: Thad DeVassie, Robin Turner asteralesournal.com
Best of the Net Nominees POETRY - Allison Blevins, John Paul Davis, Mckendy Fils-Aime, Melissa Fite Johnson, Jill Kitchen, Kerry Trautman
You take a wrong turn somewhere, even though you grew up here. This road seems to have slipped off any map. You swear it was a different road last time. from "Plot Diagram for the Girl Detective" by Em Cappettini White text on a background photo of a small car driving on a indistinct road lined with trees.
Three colorful abstract paintings on a beige background with scribbled embellishments and taped corners with black text reading JILL KHOURY
Submissions will be closing on June 15th - asteralesjournal.com/submissions on a white field framed by a flower
White text: I follow the cry to her crib, patting, tapping, slapping any object or surface to orient myself, her room a pitch-black habitat, our kid never more like an animal I struggle to understand." From Axolotl Night Light by Jackson Benson - on a background of a dark room with a crib, the outline of a man backlit in a doorway and a glowing axolotl on the wall as a nightlight.
how I've been able to stop my mouth from drawing questions out of sweetness. from "Popsicle Poetica" by Sunshine Lately in white text over a photo of a red, white, and blue rocket pop melting into red question marks.
Maroon and pink asters with green stems against a linen background and text that reads Open for Submissions Asteralesjournal.com/submissions May 1-June 15
Bananas ripen fastest when trapped together in plastic. How strange that sweetness is accelerated by a little less world. from [To put a plastic bag over bananas reminds me] by Isaac Salazar. Black and white text over a bright blue background and a photo of a bunch of yellow bananas in a plastic bag.
Black text reads Featured Artist Dayna Patterson with four images of collage work featuring a steam train, a moon, an angel with a scroll, and a woman with a garden around. Each image is enhanced by embroidery work in geometric patterns and chains.
Both sidea, front and back, all parts, a rhythm of swinging,a rhythm of movement, the predictable way objects are first far away and then become close, closer, and then are moving away again, behind, if you turn your head, farther, farther, and then not seen. Carolyn Williams-Noren "The Brain Discovers its Injury and Recovery" all written in black text over a background photo of a road sided by green trees in golden sunlight with the yellow words PAST PRESENT FUTURE superimprosed from the bottom to the top of the road.
A yellow background with PLEIADES in white text in a black box with photo of a doll with orange ribbons in dark locks, a teal and red patterned shirt and pants and black arms and feet. The face is patterned with beads and irridescent colors.
A photo of red turnips clustered over ice covered leaves. Text: When I say I want flowers, I mean I want to be round and fertile as the Earth. I want to be a turnip left in the ground through the frost-to grow tender in the cold months and leave the earth richer than I found it. Svetlana Litvinchuk, "When I Say I Want Flowers"
White text reading "You are primordial life, my miles-deep mystery. What lives in your absence of light? How does that darkness mold me?" Rebecca Kirk Connors "The Mid-Atlantic Cradle" over a photo of ocean waves at night in white and deep blue.
Cover page of the website at asteralesjournal.com with the names of pieces and contributors in beige colored boxes with original art in circles.
Issue One Successes black text on linen background with red/pink asters at the bottom. ALL DETAILS on silde at http://asterales.com/celebrations
3 abstract painting - one in grays and whites, one in pinks, oranges and yellows, and one in teal and white featuring circular shapes and a corner box that reads Feature Artist Sheila Squillante.
B/W photo of a monument of several repeated figured with primitive featured heads on rectangular plinths arranged in a semicircle with a smaller one at the center. Text reads "How Many Memorials Make a Lesson" Vishaal
Two colorful collages using papers and found text on a beige background with the artist's name Susan Barry-Schulz in dark brown text.
A photo of Gwen Stefani in dark red lipstick looking disgusted or afraid, wearing a necklace of crystals with a background of lawns, sidewalk and trees and a quote from the essay "Track 8: Sunday Morning (No Doubt, 1997) by Charles Jensen - "The way a person's thoughts and mood are visible in their facial expression, their posture, their walk, their energy level. Negative feelings really gum up the work of our bodes."
white text: I hope by the time we get there we will find exactly what we were looking for. each bird already having a name. from Metrology Theory #7 by Sean Cho A. Text is on a photo of a car's rearview mirror framing a curving road and a roadside of yellow grasses and green fields with a cloudy sky.
White wall with the shadow of leaves cast upon it. Black text that reads "As the garden starts to silence, I think, Is this what it's like to hear/a god? I want to scream like a star exploding, but instead I sit/and hold my wife's hand and wait" From Reading Rosebud Ben-Oni's Turn Around, BRXGHT XYXS While Listening to Tori Amos's Cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart During the Total Solar Eclipse" by Anthony Frame
Nov 1 - Dec 15 Subs are Open! Poetry, 1-3 poems. Prose - 1 piece up to 7500 words (flash also welcome) Art - 3-5 images at 300 dpi Specific Guidelines on the SUBMISSIONS page of the website: www.asteralesjournal.com
Inside my body, a new universe is just beginning- matter and molecules, dark energy all raked together in some pre-universe muck from "Fearful Symmetry" by Allison Blevins. White mannequin head with back scribbles in the brain area reaching past its limits and into a landscape of dark mountains and a spiraling white sky
Subs are open 11/1 - 12/15 Poetry 1-3 poems Prose - 1 piece up to 7500 words (Flash also welcome) Art - 3-5 images at 300 dpi Guidelines at http://asteralesjournal.com
We are thrilled to announce our very first Best of the Net nominees! @prayfortheapex.bsky.social @josephlezza.com @erinmurphy.bsky.social @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social Mike Nees Ellene Glenn Moore @mattkish.bsky.social @amymiller.bsky.social Beige background, green and maroon lettering - text is centered and framed by two bunches of maroon and pink asters with green stems, one on each side of the text.
Brown Text: Deer Wife, red gold sunrise haloing her head, stepping gentle on legs slendered down to cloven points Backgroun - Gold/orange autumn grove of trees with a puddle and a semi-transparent female deer standing in the foreground.
A swirl of spilled white paint on a light grey background - text reads "The can flew off, lid popped open, white paint flying up and down that aisle" Gail Martin "And We Never Spoke of It"
maybe this is the section of the scripture that just lists the livestock everybody owns & all the begetting... John Paul Davis "Diminuendo" White text on black backgrouns with rays of light filtering through a stained glass window on the upper left.
"spring blossoms coming down like so many baseballs into the cage. How I finally understand the way it can rain anything." From Spring is for Remembering by Megan Sterling. Text on a light blue background with pink petals and baseballs raining down in a random pattern.
Watercolor painting entitled Small Lichen on Goatskin Vellum - pastel grays, greens and blues show the lacy forms of a lichen on a linen-colored background.
This morning I watched as a pair of birds sat on the same branch, looking out, silent before one pushed off, flew across the water. Jared Beloff "Sasquatch mourns those who died trying to find him"
Poetry 1-3 poems Prose single work up to 7500 words- fiction, cnf, or something in-between Visual art- 3-5 images as .jpgd at least 300 dpi
Monday we slipped our glasses to check the progress of the chip missing from the bottom of the sun, the moon taking bigger bigger bites of light. From "Totality" by Kerry Trautman
Issue Three is coming soon! Poetry from Kerry Trautman, Jared Beloff, Melissa Fite Johnson, John Paul Davis, Gail Martin, Meghan Sterling, & Frances Klein! Featured Artist Sandra Wilcoxon. Visual Art from Carolee Bennett, Rachel Turney, Laurie Biggs Marshall, & Sandra Wilcoxon