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Blue grew through you
Tchotchke peacocks at the abandoned zoo Around and around the blue cages, riding the children’s train toward always, eating gorgonzola Choo choo Blue under blue over blue Even aquamarine is possible at the State Hospital (closed nineteen eighty-nine) Ten thousand IT’S A BOY balloons rubbing together make the blue sound of a hacksaw Uranus (death is famous) And oh, threnody, beauty is therapy …something new, something borrowed, something thereunto Blue of the awesome, wet we’ve — If you want what I’ve got you have to hold it until you’ve imagined how to breathe |
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Jake Bauer is an MFA candidate at The Ohio State University, where he also serves as a poetry editor for The Journal. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, The Bennington Review, and RHINO, among others.
Ula Wiznerowicz (b. 1986) is a Polish documentary photographer currently based in Amsterdam. Her photographs have been exhibited widely with solo shows in Italy, England, and Poland. Working mainly within portraiture and social documentary photography, Wiznerowicz documents a particularly unique Polish/English perspective using the camera to explore narrative conventions with a powerful subtlety and poise. Her careful handling of subjects and their emotive stories has won her acclaim with most recently a Surrau Photo Win, shortlisted for the 2014 Daylight Photo Award, a Jurors Pick FotoVisura Grant, along with the Ideas Tap Portfolio Award in 2012, Channel 4/Saatchi Gallery Prize, and D&AD Best New Blood Prize in 2010. Wiznerowicz received a B.A. (Hons) Degree in Photography from Middlesex University (2010). A short documentary film about her work was made and aired by Channel 4.