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  • Untitled

    Untitled

    Poem by Lillian Anderson Art by Lillian Anderson sitting idle under dust blanketdarting eyestensing, bracing,clinginganticipationof thundering roarimagining beast barrelingcinching neck between jawstotal decapitationclutching at my throattrembling, picturingchange emerging,or more like barging, in,rearing andsnarling clattering slobberinggnawing incessantrumbling roaringtrampling new buds flat and tearing open huge hole—beast pads in silently;unnoticed over the sound of my thinking.then, while… Read more

  • Stonewall: A Riot, A Reckoning

    Stonewall: A Riot, A Reckoning

    Written by Parker Rogers  Art by Lute Campbell In the summer of 1969, the air in New York City was thick–heavy with humidity and bubbling social change. The Civil Rights movement was taking the country by hold, along with the Women’s Liberation Movement, Anti-war protests, and the Counterculture movement. The nation was reaching its boiling… Read more

  • Art Gallery March ’25

    Art Gallery March ’25

    Round of applause for Chivomengro’s artists everyone! Bask in their glory. Lily Anderson Master copy, February 2025 Oil Painting Lily Anderson February 2025 Linocut Print  Lily Anderson, February 2025 Linocut Print Greta Scheff Diptych, February 2025 Digital Photography Greta Scheff do you remember, January 2025 Digital photo collage Greta Scheff Gallery Infestation, May 2024 Adobe… Read more

  • Meditation Through Sound: Ambient Music’s Powerful Style

    Meditation Through Sound: Ambient Music’s Powerful Style

    Written by Benjamin Parker  Art by Lute Campbell  When my family first brought home a box set of CDs titled The Listening Program for me to try, I hadn’t fully developed my own taste in music yet. All I remember is listening to long stretches of classical music and calming nature sounds, sometimes both at… Read more

  • Desolation

    Desolation

    Poem by Lillian Anderson Art by Lillian Anderson the sloughing off of many layers,degrading rapidagainst the blustering, grinding downto nubwalking down the same street,recognizing vague forms,seeing no similarity.every person emerges from their hole,claws out a chunk,hefty in their hands,real meaty earth piece.soon dissipating between fingers,sliding past grasp,back to dust,for someone else to scoop upthe permanence… Read more

  • What Makes a Narrator Unreliable?

    What Makes a Narrator Unreliable?

    Poem by MacReady Byrd Art by MacReady Byrd I will spend a lifetime becoming and exiting, The vivacious narrative of my doing. Donning frills, flowers, glittery shoes We’d tie our hair into pigtails and wear laughter like a certain demise. Things could be simple then Girl Cute. Smile wanes and all that’s left is a… Read more