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The Fissured Tongue Series
“The Red String" by Kiera Fisher.
Multimedia Magazine, Colored Paper, Glue on Mixed Media Paper,
14 x 11 inches, 2024
Fissured Tongue Volume VII Contributors: Trinity Caitlin | Christiana Brevet | Justin Goodman |
Sophia Terazawa | Claude Clayton Smith | Rosalie Hendon | JP THom | Rochallyi | Jennifer Griffiths Orudjev | Samar Okorefe | Ann Wong WanYee | Rachel Bliss | Owen Brown | |
Welcome to Fissured Tongue Volume VII
Fissured Tongue Volume VII is curated and edited by Nawal Nader-French, Editor, and Allissa Balint, Editor Work was selected by Allissa Balint and Nawal Nader-French |
Rachel Bliss
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Wonder Eye
by Christiana Brevet Fissured Tongue Series Vol VII | May 2026 "You understand that this is Indiana? The land ravaged by the mining company is now
grown up with grass and studded with lakes the migrating waterfowl come to rest in between flights. While the visiting nurse looks after my son, I drive out here to photograph the birds."
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need to ask permission https://www.instagram.com/p/BVBAcdBhnYA/?hl=en
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GUYS I KNEW IN COLLEGE
by Claude Clayton Smith Fissured Tongue Series Vol VII | May 2026 "[...] social change is a spiral, rather than the linear climb I had hoped it was in my younger years. That being said, I believe in revolution and that it changes us and the world around us, and that inspired these words." --from the writer's process
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“ " by J G Orudjev. Mixed media collage, 5 x 4 inches 2023
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Decepción
by Rosalie Hendon Fissured Tongue Series Vol VII | May 2026 "Wendy and Susan have a regular habit of phone calls to discuss writing. Susan is often watching her outdoor bird feeders during these calls and cannot resist commenting on the bird visitors. One day she tried to describe a white-winged dove. Wendy mentioned later that she couldn't stop thinking about the bird. Her thoughts became poetry and Susan replied with nonfiction snippets about the doves." --from the writer's process
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“Fidelity" by Rochallyi. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 210 x 220 cm, 2025
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Two Poems:
citron (rejection as a lemon) & poem for tumblr user vanshistuff by JP THOM Fissured Tongue Series Vol VI | May 2026 "Full on & fast around the corners, my father always took them with ease,
jolting but in it, unwaveringly there in the high part of the mind just behind his hairline which isn’t all too bad for a man in his late 60s. He is almost to Whitehorse."
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"Untitled (Bird)" by Michael Thompson. Mono-print,
18 x 12 inches, 2018
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Look At a Bird by Tim Carrier Fissured Tongue Series Vol VI | May 2025 "You are my friend who says, Look at a mountain. Look at a bird— in new poems.
The L of your name was once a lion. Then a mouth. A raised arm. Then a staff. Its shape imparting direction to the animals & the land."
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