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Handprints

Handprints

Literary Nonfiction Editor Kristen Iversen: What I admire most about this essay is the author’s courage in confronting a subject that is both deeply personal and, regrettably and even tragically, part of a wider cultural experience. Montgomery’s memories, lyrical style, skillful metaphors, and forthright engagement with a persistent and often frightening cultural problem are especially …

Folded Photography

Folded Photography

Artist’s Statement Folded Cyanotypes and Folded Palladiums are closely related bodies of work that use historic photo processes to create works on paper. In both cases the paper is folded, coated with photo fluid, then exposed to light. After that, I rinse the paper in fixative to reveal the image, simultaneously flattening it. The Folded …

The Yam Reflects

The Yam Reflects

On this day, during some tough year, I was born from simple soil.Red clay. Ocher dust. No forefather. Only my overworked mother named me.I was found in a basket of wild grasses. My vine and tuber secretive, curling.I, this yam, wish to remain whole. I, severed root.Find me, this severed root, waiting not for hand …

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