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Elizabeth Johnson

An artist, art writer and guest curator, ELIZABETH JOHNSON began writing reviews for artpractical.com in San Francisco, California, and later covered exhibitions in New York City, Philadelphia, and the Lehigh Valley for theartblog.org. She has written for artcritical.com, Artvoices Magazine, Figure/Ground, PaintersonPaintings.com and DeliciousLine.org. She interviews gallery artists for Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Winter by Jasna Dimitrijević
translated from the Serbian by John K. Cox

November 7, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, Jasna Dimitrijević, John K. Cox

"Iota" by Elizabeth Johnson

Since I moved away to a bigger city, I seldom come back home. Only for holidays and the anniversaries of a few people’s deaths.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Fiction, Translation Posted On: November 7, 2022

The Closet
by Julia Halprin Jackson

July 7, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, Julia Halprin Jackson

Split View by Elizabeth Johnson

There were two beds in Little’s room. Put back to back they were as long as his father was tall. The walls were covered in a light floral print.

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: July 7, 2022

Six Poems by Anna Matysiak
from Inbred Machines: (The Difference and the Repetition), translated from the Polish by Peter Burzyński

June 23, 2022 Contributed By: Anna Matysiak, Elizabeth Johnson, Peter Burzyński

Exit County by Elizabeth Johnson

the queen wasp / opens her first pair of arms. / she convulses in the right chamber like / how nails sanctify a board.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: June 23, 2022

We Will Survive
by Rolla Barraq, translated from the Arabic by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp

June 2, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, Jeffrey Clapp, Muntather Alsawad, Rolla Barraq

We Will Survive Johnson Barraq

Death was passing through the pores of waiting / like fresh messages from the sky

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: June 2, 2022

I Cried Because You Told Me
by Abdulqader S. Al-Ghamdi, translated from the Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim

May 2, 2022 Contributed By: Abdulqader S. Al-Ghamdi, Elizabeth Johnson, Essam M. Al-Jassim

Cried Because Told Me

I recall the prickly pear shrub that never failed to pierce me as I tucked my skinny body behind it, trying to hide…

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Translation, Fiction, Translation Posted On: May 2, 2022

The Trembling Nasties
by William Luvaas

April 18, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, William Luvaas

Saturday Level and Full, 2021, oil on canvas, 48x60 by Elizabeth Johnson

I am told I was a happy, mischievous kid who smeared peanut butter on walls. Insatiably curious, I would sit down next to strangers on buses and start up conversations. I have heard that I liked to make people laugh. I don’t remember any of this.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: April 18, 2022

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