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literary & art fair

the spring issue: what labyrinths will you immerse yourself in?
2024

foreword ✦ expressions staff

gallery

art, architecture & photography ✦ scholastic award winners

Sestina

Sixty Seconds ✦ Tristan Artanis

ESSAY

Endangered Cultures ✦ Alina Samylova

VILLANELLE

Life ✦ Krishna Johri

FREE VERSE POETRY

Ice ✦ Calliope Cuomo

Friday the 13th ✦ Nina Goncalves Vieria

The Backwards Poem ✦ Kaitilyn Lee

2AM Existential Crisis ✦ Lindsey Cheng

CHILDREN’S BOOK

The Giggle Galaxy ✦ Heidi Klink

Jonahs 1st Day✦ Alexander Ngo

Parody

Still She Rose ✦ Lindsay Brasner

POLITICAL & SATIRICAL CARTOON

Trade Wars ✦ Sonqgi Jiang

SHORT STORY

Eclipsed Dreams: A Morning’s Goodbye ✦ Nina Goncalves Vieira

I Won✦ Rose Seniuk

Mrs. Woodrow ✦ Elizabeth Perez

SCENE WRITING

Binary Betrayal ✦ Ishaan Garg

Persian Persuasion ✦ Ellaheh Gohari

CINQUAIN

Fading Beauty ✦ Victoria Tellez Rahwan

Family, the Ones That Raise Us ✦ Khosla Dhruv

POETRY INTERPRETATION POSTER

Sonnet 18 ✦ Ryan Montgomery

Butterfly Garden ✦ Tzm Lam

Lines Written in Early Spring ✦ Nicholas Kwok

HAIKU

Drowning ✦ Lindsey Cheng

Timeless ✦ Liliana Novak

Autumn ✦ Nicholas Kwok

TWO VOICE POETRY

Faith, Reason ✦ Hamza Mairajuddin

The Untold Perspective ✦ Rachel Kessler

Percussion ✦ Sammie Szeto

ODE

Ode to Tennis ✦ Arianna Tkachenko

SONNET

World of Painters ✦ Aldrei Chua

RHYMED VERSE POETRY

Drifting Away ✦ Arsh Lalani

Whims of Fall ✦ Sophie Hochwald

MYTH

The Silence of the Euxine ✦ Mia Hernandez

The Cruel Caribbean ✦ Cyrus Hernandez

EKPHRASTIC POETRY

Shining ✦ Cruz Albert

Serene Sunset by the Beach ✦ Maya Moore

The Sunset ✦ Priya Johri

Just a Girl ✦ Sophie Hochwald