One Picture/One Paragraph

Cecilia Dougherty

A chilly night, raining, lower Manhattan. A tree. Keywords include: Jameson, bloody, moonless, bower, twig, luminance, glow, source, hush, vapor, twinkle, shift, singly, soft, slush, boot, crunch, ache, break, clip, click, slick, dank. Words of the day include: virgule, miasma, cosset, solidus, cambric, planisphere, cordiform, dolman, narwal, proselytize, tractable, scapegrace, avidity, excrescence, tumid, pouf, elide, […]

Maria Porges

One day not long ago, I heard a ballet historian on the radio talking about Marie Taglioni.

Brea Souders

Starting in my mid-20s I found myself collecting antique photographs of young sisters

Rhona Bitner

The first “battle” painting I saw was at the National Gallery in London when I was in school

Dana Hoey

My brother Bart took this photograph with his I-Phone when he traveled across the U.S. by train

Lia Purpura

I keep on my wall, a small print of Death, robed, with his scythe, leading a line of folks over a hill

Jay Brecker

After a time I began to feel faint from the hours spent to make an inference.

Eileen Cowin

It was Thursday; she would be making Swedish meatballs.

Sue Spaid

Endless Dresses. Fortunately, I have a lot of bizarre photographs left over from my childhood