SAND 9: “Relationships”

Like water seeping into an empty riverbed, we find our own borders by discovering where they bump up against others. “How we need another soul to cling to,” Sylvia Plath, that thorough explorer of the self, wrote in her journal. Our relationships – with mothers, lovers, or brothers – are as responsible for making us as anything we think truly springs from us.

Featuring a special section of ekphrastic poetry in collaboration with Visual Verse, inspired by the cover artist Erin Quinn.

FEATURING

Liz Bahs • D.B. Brodie • Pippa Chapman • Ben Collas • Valerie Cumming • Pablo Díaz Benzo • Sharif El Gammal-Oritz • Adam Flint • April L. Ford • Sarah Howe • Rich Ives • Chloe Jones • Jesse Kohn •  Alexandra Levasseur • Kate Nacy • Stephanie Newman • Amanda Nowakowski • Simon Perchik • Marina Roca Die • Celina Su • Jeff Tigchelaar • Jy Turin • William VanDenBerg • Peter Wallis • Emma Wippermann

DESIGN BY

Erin Quinn

COVER ART

Erin Quinn, from her series Breaking Point