Issue 32 | Spring 2025
NYC Skyscraper 2024
By Cliff Tisdell
About the Author
Cliff Tisdell’s art is drawn from various genres of painting, sculpture, cinema, literature, and illustration. Swept up in the NYC underground scene of the 1960s, he went on to attend the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League. His work is in private collections in the United States, Europe, and Canada. Venues and publications include the Edward Hopper House Museum, Carnegie Hall, Eric Fischl’s America Here and Now project, the Chautauqua Institution, Ivan Karp’s OK Harris Gallery, and the Village Voice. Recently, his visual tribute to American author Carson McCullers was featured in Virginia Commonwealth University’s Blackbird Journal. Please visit clifftisdellart.com.
Prose
My Voice Will Not Be My Own
Vincenzo della Malva
Requiem for the Golden City
Molara Wood
Clotheslines
Khalil AbuSharekh
An Impasse
Ian MacClayn
Xiaolongbao, My Love
Karen An-hwei Lee
Tabs
Austin Adams
The Blue Plastic Basin
Eric T. Racher
Excerpt from The Confusion of Figure and Ground
Mary Burger
Black Man’s Guide to Bookselling / Snap Shot #46
Jerry Thompson
Selected Dates (1998)
Shawna Yang Ryan
The Temperance of Heretics
Steve Barbaro
Poetry
Mooring
Kirsten Kaschock
Report to Marianne
Mark J. Mitchell
Ode to Sending Light
Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad
People in free situations.
The maintenance manager
DS Maolalai
Cover Art
NYC Skyscraper 2024
Cliff Tisdell

