Fissured Tongue Volume 3

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The Fissured Tongue Series

“Certainty I" by Lisa Berley. mixed media, 22 x 30 inches, 2013.

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This volume "contains themes of justice and loss, memory and embodiment, attempts to respect and understand the past as we move into an updated future, even if some days it's hard to see beyond tomorrow."

Read Jesica Davis's Letter from the Editor on Fissured Volume Two.

Cover Art “Certainty I" by Lisa Berley, mixed media, 22 x 30 inches, 2013.

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Rupert D. Turnbull, Untitled, oil on canvas, 28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.5 cm.), 1938. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Patricia and Phillip Frost

Boundary by Grace Ann Rogers

Unidentified Woman, collodion and silver on iron with lacquer, H x W: 3 3/8 x 2 3/8 in. (8.6 x 6 cm), 1856-1900 Description: A tintype of an unidentified African American woman wearing a longsleeve dress with a lace collar. The plate has tinted: her earrings and the ring on her left middle finger are painted gold, her cheeks are painted pink, and her belt is painted teal. She holds a kerchief in her left hand and rests her other hand on her lap. from Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Open Source

Three poems by Kirslyn Schell-Smith

H. Lyman Saÿen, Flowers, oil on canvas, 30 1⁄8 x 36 1⁄8 in. (76.5 x 91.8 cm.), 1915. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of H. Lyman Sayen to his nation. Open Source

"In Every Flower" by Sophie Braxton

Abbott Handerson Thayer, Roseate Spoonbills, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, oil on paperboard, 22 7⁄8 x 26 1⁄4 in. (58.2 x 66.6 cm.), ca. 1905-1909. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the heirs of Abbott Handerson Thayer. Open source

Two Poems by D.S. Maolalai

The Mandela Effect* by AT Hincapie

Malvin Gray Johnson, Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, 38 1⁄4 x 30 in. (97.2 x 76.2 cm.), 1934, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation Open Source.

Cheat House by Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah

Elbridge Kingsley, The Poet on Pegasus Entering the Realm of the Muses, plate: 6 1⁄4 x 5 1⁄4 in. (15.9 x 13.3 cm), wood engraving, 1890. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Leonard Baskin, Open Source.

"When Memory Becomes Mythology" by Soramimi Hanarejima

Unidentified, Figurative Abstraction, brush and ink with pencil on paper, 23 1⁄2 x 20 1⁄8 in. (59.7 x 51.1 cm) ca. 1930-1938, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, Open Source

A Ghazal for the Children by Shreya Vikram

H. Lyman Saÿen, Trees, oil on canvas, 21 1⁄8 x 18 1⁄8 in. (53.6 x 46.0 cm.), ca. 1912-1914. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of H. Lyman Sayen to his nation. Open Source.

Two Poems by Rachel Tang

Arthur B. Davies, Figure in Glass, drypoint on paper, plate: 6 1⁄4 x 5 1⁄2 in. (15.9 x 14.0 cm), 1916-1917. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase. Open Source.

"That One Thing with the Wine" by Katlyn Tjerrild