An abstract composition with the upper left showing a purple hand silhouette on a warm-toned background and the other sections displaying swirling, layered hues of green and purple.

Queer and Liberation Centric Compositions

Visual artist Al Sabrie tends to queer and liberation centric compositions of sound, movement, prose, and mixed media design.

December 22, 2025 | Read Article

Like ghosts, black and white abstract figures move in and out of a open-topped box with doorways.

Gaga & Permanent Records Roadhouse

Los Angeles-based writer and dancer Benjie Salazar evokes exploring movement in a studio during a rainstorm in their poem "Gaga & Permanent Records Roadhouse."

May 23, 2024 | Read Article

An outline in red of an abstract figure moving against embossed white paper.

New Orleans

Albuquerque-based poet and choreographer Tara King's poem "New Orleans" brings to visceral life the air coursing through a body while enjoying "The Big Easy."

May 20, 2024 | Read Article

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."

March 21, 2024 | Read Article

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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."

March 18, 2024 | Read Article