sprig: must

by Michaela Mullin, J.K. Fowler (Editor), Mariela Yeregui (Artist)

nomadic sojourns creative collective brings you sprig, the first of many special issues to come.These are specially curated issues filled with the work of talented, challenging, and deeply moving writers and artists. We hope that you enjoy them. sprig: must (number 1) features the poetry of Michaela Mullin (Des Moines, Iowa) and drawings by Mariela Yeregui (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Here is their note from the interior of the publication: "For us, there is no anxiety of influence, only the influence of anxiety. We are anxious and excited about how we remember, how we forget; how the world works, or is purported to work; our experiences with and within image and text, such as our dialogue herein; and the familia(l), both small and large. We are anxious for wedding (v.) realms-not to subjugate, certainly not to fully integrate, but to create and see something old with something new, almost always something borrowed, quite often and most beautifully, something blue." From Teri Youmans Grimm, author of Dirt Eaters: "Michaela Mullin's must is appropriately titled in every sense of the word-from the tender ironies and quiet insistences, to poems that create their own likely logic through her singular sensibility-this is a collection that should not be overlooked. While the poems often find their source in the intellect, the cleverness doesn't compromise their fervency. These are poems that resonate not only in the mind, but in the heart and the body as well."

86 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014