Yellow Arrow Journal’s issue on EMBLAZON (Vol. VIII, No. 2), guest edited by Leticia Priebe Rocha, is now available as a paperback and PDF from the Yellow Arrow bookstore. Discounts are also available (here) if you would like to purchase copies for friends and family (minimum purchase of five). You can also search for Yellow Arrow Journal on any e-book device or anywhere you purchase print and electronic books, including Amazon and most other distribution channels.

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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.

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.”

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.

Featuring Janet E. Aalfs, Susan Ayres, Elizabeth Birch, Aliyah Blattner, Samantha Chagollan, Kae Chatman, Emma Conlon, Robin Dellabough, Sam Donndelinger, Joanne Durham, Emma Gawlinski, Monique Harris, Corinne Hawk, Bethany Jarmul, Dana Knott, Kaiya Lankhaar, Amy S. Lerman, Morgan Neering, Vanessa Y. Niu, K.S. Palakovic, Sarah Josephine Pennington, Laura Rockhold, Kit Roper, Dani Sacchi, Erika Seshadri, Wendy Swift, Alli Tervo, Angela Townsend, and Sterling Wilmer.

Cover art by Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo and cover design by Alexa Laharty.

Editor-in-Chief: Kapua Iao

Guest Editor: Leticia Priebe Rocha

Editorial Associates: Sydney Alexander, Adhithi Anjali, Angela Firman, Meg Gamble, Samantha Pomerantz, Kait Quinn, Beck Snyder, and Beverly Yirenkyi

Thank you for supporting independent publishing.

We hope you enjoy reading EMBLAZON as much as we enjoyed creating it. Thank you for your continued encouragement of Yellow Arrow Publishing and the women involved in EMBLAZON. And on November 29 at 8:00 p.m. EST, please join Leticia and some of our authors for the live, virtual reading of EMBLAZON. More information is forthcoming.