F&M Alumni Arts Review

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We are currently working with our talented contributing artists, editorial board, and graphic designer to put the finishing touches on Vol V: SIGNS, and we couldn't be more excited to share it with you.

Please join us in celebrating the release of SIGNS! Friday, April 8 at 5:30 will find us gathered together with members of the AAR community from far and wide for refreshments, warm conversation, and the very first look at this beautiful Review.

We hope to see you there!

Only 10 days left until our Nov 22 deadline for SIGNS submissions! Keep them coming! Let Richard Drake's evocative "Edge of Night, Honfleur" spark your creativity, and then explore the new and improved AAR website for flipbooks, submission guidelines, a letter from the editor, and the brand-new featured event with photos of the reading and reception: http://www.fandm.edu/alumni-connections/alumni-arts-review

The November 22 deadline for submissions to Volume V: SIGNS is fast approaching! To help prompt some flashes of inspiration or final editing tweaks, here's the opening to Mark Miller's hilarious and heartwarming essay, "'Til Love Do Us Part."

"I'm such a fan of romantic comedies that from the moment Jessica and I met, I realized our relationship, like so many depicted in those movies, was not a match made in soul mate heaven. Not even soul mate heaven adjacent."

Hooked? Read on in the EDGE flipbook on our website, where you can also browse our submission guidelines and letter from editor Sands Hall on the theme: http://www.fandm.edu/alumni-connections/alumni-arts-review

Get your week off to a great start with a brief poetry break, courtesy of Sydney Pierce's thought provoking poem, "Coming West." This beautiful piece is published in EDGE, and we hope it gets you thinking about Volume V: SIGNS.

These mountains rise up
as my ancestors, raised on
pine and fire ash above an ocean
of a plain, ancient fog drifting like smoke
from hard scrub gullies.
Coming West feels like arriving
at the edge, a great border
beyond which—sky. A confrontation.
Coming West is a breaking
open.

I don't believe
in God, but I believe he has been here
with his hands in the earth, I believe
I have enough of sadness.
Let me wash my face
in the ashes;
I come back here to mourn.

To see more from our previous issues, or for information on SIGNS, visit http://www.fandm.edu/alumni-connections/alumni-arts-review.

This week we feature this intriguing image, Invisibility by Salina Almanzar, straight from the pages of EDGE!

We hope you're hard at work on submissions for Volume V: SIGNS!
If you need a refresher on the submission guidelines, deadlines, or letter on the theme, or you want to see more from previous issues, visit our website here: http://www.fandm.edu/alumni-connections/alumni-arts-review