Zymbol
Fine art, short stories, poetry, memoir & essays
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Zymbol is an art and literature magazine with aesthetic roots in the symbolist and surrealist movements. In the fields of literature, visual art, criticism and theory, we publish the finest work of both established and emerging voices.
This visually arresting semiannual collection has featured notable illustrators Mette Norrie and Yumi Sakugawa; poets Anthony Madrid and William Doreski; and short stories by Evan Morgan Williams, Alexis Pernsteiner and Hilary Zaid.
Since its inception, copies of Zymbol have made their way to readers on six continents, and its contributors hail from twenty countries and counting.
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Pages (PDF): 66
Publisher: Zymbol
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IN THIS ISSUE
Cover
Marcello Castellani
Feature
Sahar Fadaian: India's Third Gender
Interview
Mohineet Kaur Boparai: India's Rising Star
Art
Morgan Grasham
Aof Smith
Memoir
John Robinson
Fiction
Jonathan Mack
Tantra Bensko
Douglas Penick
Poetry
Wendy Vardaman
Dmitry Kuzmin
John Gosslee
Ian Khadan
Phylinda Moore
Aaron Anstett
Sherraine Pate Williams
L. Krisak
Jamie Lee Knight
Wade German
Camille Thigpen
Pages (PDF): 66
Publisher: Zymbol
Purchase includes: PDF
IN THIS ISSUE
Get lost in the woods with poet Becca Jensen’s take on The Boxcar Children, and stumble upon the ruins of a panopticon in an anonymous piece that blurs the lines of real and imaginary. Strange encounters with druids and aliens in fictions by Larry Lefkowitz and James Hanna. Menacing meals bubble and stir in poems by Jennifer Jean, Linda Ann Strang, Grant Tarbard, Carol Alexander. A daring memoir by Nicole Santalucia takes us into the psychology of addiction. Akemi Shinohara illustrates friend Jonathan Mack’s story about a family that prefers planting to burial.
Pages (PDF): 146
Publisher: Zymbol
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IN THIS ISSUE
A dark winter. Alexis Pernsteiner talks lust, liquor, and Lady Gaga obsession. Artist Andrew Abbott hits love where it hurts with Shit Fuck Valentines Day I-III. Patrick Dolan interviews poet John Gosslee of Fjords Review on his Blitzkrieg collaboration and the poem with a life of its own, “Portrait of an Inner Life.” Matt Schumacher reminds us why we should be very afraid of spiders. Three memoirs, by John Robinson, Dileep Jhaveri, and Paul Sohar take us from Europe and India to the Moon.