Section 01
Bold
Opening works of arrival, declaration, figure, memory, and first passage.
Current Issue / 2026
Threshold
Journal of Literature & Art
This digital issue treats the printed journal as an exhibition catalogue: a threshold between private drafts and public rooms, between image and text, between the held page and the illuminated screen.
Exhibition model
Rooms of the Issue
Section 02
Transit
Work in motion: travel, thresholds, maps, messages, recollection, and crossing.
Section 03
Verdant
Green matter, growth, humor, field notes, and questions of survival.
Section 04
Cleave
A room of separation and attachment, evidence and tenderness, wound and artifact.
Section 05
Unfold
Works that open outward into family, weather, stillness, design, and public care.
Section 06
Hallow
The final room gathers dream, body, ceremony, remembrance, and looking upward.
Selected works
A First Passage
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Interrogated by a Bot
Creative nonfiction
Nonfiction / Verdant
Interrogated by a Bot
My AI-based job interview left me deeply disturbed. I was the last kid on our cul-de-sac to stop using a Montgomery Ward 8-track tape player when cassette players gained traction in the early ’70s. I kept my...
Visual Art / Bold
Jim
A clay sculpture placed early in the issue as a quiet figure of arrival.
24
What’s Left of My Father
Poem
Poetry / Cleave
What’s Left of My Father
I cut a circle from the chest
Design / Unfold
The Gilded Egg
A packaging design project presented as a crafted object and visual system.
Visual Art / Transit
Boston Seaport, MA
A harbor scene translated through acrylic color and architectural light.