Articles from the ‘Creative Responses’ collection

An illustration of gesturing arms and hands reaching out of abstract shapes and colors.

Emily

In Cleo Person’s poem “Emily,” she creates a swirl of poetic gestures and details, “each finger paints the space like form and light.”

An illustration of two feet surrounded by abstract colors and shapes.

dancer’s litany

In Aura Fischbeck-Wise’s poem “dancer’s litany,” she describes feet and minds “seeking out the substance of space and time and a way to make it matter.”

An illustration of a red dnacer doing a handstand.

Infused with the Otherworldly

Liz Brent-Maldonado’s illustrations for the fall/winter print publication of Stance on Dance feature magical realism and the everyday infused with otherworldly or surreal elements.