Digital Issue No. 6 | The New Engagement

Digital Issue No. 6

Unravel by Jessica Rowshandel, December 2016 issue cover
December
2016

Literature

Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Essays

Dirty Looks story art

Dirty Looks

By Amie Reilly

Language and self-worth are confronted and reclaimed.

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The Elephant Closest To The Moon story art

The Elephant Closest to the Moon

By Shannon O'Connor

In embrace of soothing delusions, with arms wrapped warmly around all restorative illusions.

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The Gift art

The Gift, Chapter 2

By Mark Elzey

The next installment of Mark Elzey’s courageous, compassionate autobiography.

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We're Communists story art

We're Communists!

By Eric Nguyen

Politics, romance, and expatriation find an artful symbiosis.

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Alabanza poetry art

Alabanza

By Yareliz Mendez-Zamora

Womanhood—impermeable and fortified—takes anchor into a tempestuous, hostile world.

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Natural Rhythms poetry art

Natural Rhythms

By Linda Laino

Microscopic universes, colossal feelings.

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Icarus Also Flew story art

Icarus Also Flew

By Roberto Carlos Garcia

Unmoored, adrift, and searching for salvation in a foreign land.

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Zer0: Emancipation, Original story art by Jessica Deaver detail

Zer0: Emancipation, Chapter 14

By Jessica Deaver

Deceptively spare expression reveals a darkly poetic heart in this unexpected turn of events from Jessica Deaver’s ongoing saga.

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Art

Film, Photography, Illustration, Painting

Unravel by Jessica Rowshandel, December 2016 issue cover

Unravel

By Jessica Rowshandel

A primal scream into the abyss.

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Implications film art

The Implications of Giovanni's Room on Black Boy Queer Identity

By Khalil Anthony

After Baldwin, in a voice that shakes and sounds a freedom knell.

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Soldier of Misfortune by Carl Bowlby

Soldier of Misfortune

By Carl Bowlby

Grim phantasm of human habit in cold white light.

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Nude No. 1 by Carl Bowlby

Nude No. 1

By Carl Bowlby

The naked risk reveals a steely will.

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The Holy Family by Carl Bowlby

The Holy Family

By Carl Bowlby

A mannerist pose, a pious glare.

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The New Engagement

The New Engagement endeavors a novel approach to discovering, introducing, and showcasing writers, artists, and filmmakers, by providing them digital and print platforms, while encouraging and supporting their social-consciousness.