“Coloring” turned up some wild contributions this issue, and I bet it will surprise exactly no one that most of them were poetry. When you consider poetry is feeling and colors are…well, yeah. Anyway, we have contributions from two of our favorite EAP contributors, Chris Farago with #267 (we love counting with him), and C.S. Kraszewski with ORANGE GREEN WHITE BLACK. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s poetry editor Marissa Bell Toffoli’s Heather. And poets new to our scene as well: Joseph Harms sends in ARGENTIERA, and John Grey loves The Aunt.
We’ve also got scary stuff. Darren Payne must have honed his work by freaking out his children, so here’s another of his chilling stories, A Glass of Cabernet. And Karin Wares remembers when she was green, One Green Word.
If you only read one piece, though, please do head to Bruce Thompson’s Stumbling Toward Truth. It’s about his discovery as a young philosopher that what one of his mentors said was absolutely true: “Whatever you think you know about your field, there is a person of color in your field that you should be paying more attention to.” There are changes going on in our world, and that new focus of attention is one of the most useful, and the most potentially creative.
Speaking of creative, welcome, Spring! We’ll be taking a break from now till the Fall issue, getting out my fourth book in The History of Arcadia series: Report to Megalopolis, or The Post-modern Prometheus—it’s the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, and this book is, among other things, my own personal celebration.
See you in the fall. And in the meantime, welcome back.