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Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue… Poem: The Absence of Strange Alex Andy Phuong (the Poet) earned his Bachelor of Arts in English from California State University—Los Angeles in 2015. Emma Stone inspired Alex to write passionately after hearing the Oscar-nominated song, Audition (The Fools Who Dream) from the “Best Picture” nominee La…

Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue… Poem: I Fear Ann Howells edited Illya’s Honey for eighteen years. Recent books are: So Long As We Speak Their Names (Kelsay Books, 2019) and Painting the Pinwheel Sky (Assure Press, 2020). Chapbooks include: Black Crow in Flight, Editor’s Choice in Main Street Rag’s 2007 competition and…

Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue… Art: Grafton B.S.Roberts is an author-artist-historian-archivist-geek from Maine. He had too much spare time on his hands, so he helped found Nat 1 Publishing and the Audience Askew Literary Journal. He also happens to be very bad at counting, which led to this issue of AALJ to…

Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue… Poem: First Day Poem: First Night Redux Akiva Israel, Prison Poet, is an artist doing time in prison for men.  She is transgender and believes that, in a previous cycle of incarnation, she did witness the third live performance of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Poem: Pills Alan…

Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue… Cover Art: New Age Alexey Adonin explores the point of convergence between abstraction and surrealism to create a channel of communication between his inner world and the viewers, not only to share his personal vision but also and especially to invite viewers to elaborate their personal interpretations…