It’s official! Here is the cover of Yellow Arrow Journal’s issue on EMBLAZON (Vol. VIII, No. 2), guest edited by Leticia Priebe Rocha
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The cover image by Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo, acrylic, ink, and glitter on wood, is called “Cycles.” It serves to emblazon the interconnectedness of natural life and the place of humanity within the rest of nature. According to Leticia, “As soon as I saw ‘Cycles,’ I felt EMBLAZON leaping from it. This piece beautifully embodies the elements that make up human existence, the earth we are so lucky to call home and the universe we chaotically attempt to navigate. ‘Cycles’ is a reminder that we will all return from whence we came. Above all, it is a celebration of our profoundly necessary interconnectedness.”
EMBLAZON addresses life’s fleeting moments that make us who we are. Every piece included within this issue is a testament to writing as an act of love. Love for the people that adorn our lives as family, lovers, friends, and strangers. For the land that cradles our bodies. For the places and moments that inevitably carve themselves into our essences. For the self, ever reading for radiance. For aliveness, and beyond.
Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo, a poet, visual artist, and facilitator whose work reflects her Indigenous ancestry and perspectives as a Mexican Chicana woman. Leticia Priebe Rocha earned her bachelor’s from Tufts University, where she was awarded the 2020 Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, she immigrated to Miami, Florida, at the age of nine and currently resides in the Greater Boston area.
EMBLAZON is available for preorder from the Yellow Arrow bookstore. Wholesale copies (discounted copies in lots of 5) can also be purchased. The issue will be released on November 7. Reserve your copy today.
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