BY LEANNE GRABEL click the first image below to open in gallery view Leanne Grabel is a special education and language arts teacher for Portland Public Schools, as well as a performing poet and co-founder of Portland’s legendary poetry cafe, Cafe Lena. Grabel has procured numerous multi-media arts grants over the years to produce spoken-word-based … Continue reading
BY JESSY RANDALL Please click the first image below to view a gallery of Randall’s graphic poems. Jessy Randall’s poems, comics, and other things have appeared in McSweeney’s, Poetry (forthcoming), and Rattle. Her most recent book is Suicide Hotline Hold Music, a collection of poems and comics. She is a librarian at Colorado College … Continue reading
BY CESCA WATERFIELD 1. A Late Romance Tex was late to this life he led. In the nightclubs and storefronts of central Los Angeles in the 1980s, he had come to doubt good women exist. After the imbroglio of a failed marriage, the prodigal repaired to Richmond where his talent for courtship and commerce were … Continue reading
BY SB SB is a writer and performer who has recently begun sharing her artwork. She has been a public radio producer, has written for a Columbia production of The Vagina Monologues, and has been published in Off The Coast and several e-magazines. She is a strong supporter of other artists and writers through her … Continue reading
BY SAI LI Sai Li is a Chinese visual artist living and working in San Francisco, California. She currently focuses on visual storytelling by means of comics, illustrations and animation. Sai has shown her work both nationally and internationally, including China Independent Animation Film Biennial Forum (Beijing), SOMArts (San Francisco), Cartoon Art Museum … Continue reading
BY NOEL FRANKLIN Noel Franklin is a Seattle-based performance poet and visual artist with an academic background in fine arts printmaking. Her poetry has garnered a Seattle Arts Commission grant, a Jack Straw Foundation Fellowship and placement on Seattle’s National Poetry Slam team. Her visual art has been exhibited in Seattle, Sacramento and San Francisco. Continue reading
BY KATHLEEN KRALOWEC Kathleen Kralowec lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and makes comics about dreams, magic and aliens. Her webcomic can be seen at http://www.kerbop.com and she has another comic/collage project at http://www.paxpoetica.tumblr.com. Continue reading
