Dignity Featured Artist Daniel Gene Barlekamp
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome back the first of our Dignity issue artists, Daniel Gene Barlekamp of Massachusetts, with two achingly beautiful poems exploring dignity through the lens of family,...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Jonathan Yungkans
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome back California poet and photographer Jonathan Yungkans, whose work has been a vibrant part of our community for more than seven years. A multi‑contest winner in...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Winner of the Dignity Poetry Contest: “The creek” by Sara McAulay
Thanks to all who submitted poetry for the Dignity issue. It’s one if the strongest fields of poems we have seen to date. The twelve finalists are: Post-College-Visit Sonnet Crown, Gillian Freebody The...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Angela Waldie
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back Canadian poet Angela Waldie, winner of our Recovery poetry contest, with two striking works exploring nature and vulnerability in the snowy landscapes of...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Sandi Stromberg
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome back Houston poet Sandi Stromberg, previously featured in our Dreams and Audacity issues, with two wonderfully atmospheric poems on the theme of Expectations. “Say...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Dave Seter
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back California poet Dave Seter with a bemusing and quietly insightful meditation on crows — and on the strange human impulse to seek out particular creatures as if...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Greg Sendi
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome Chicago poet and writer Greg Sendi with “Amour,” an intense narrative poem that follows the speaker and the daughter of an elderly neighbor into the old woman’s home...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Elena Lelia Radulescu
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome Romanian American poet and writer Elena Lelia Radulescu of New Mexico with three fascinating poems exploring expectations in their most intimate and destabilizing...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Eloísa Pérez-Lozano
Synkroniciti is stoked to welcome back poet and writer Eloísa Pérez-Lozano of Houston with two poems exploring society’s expectations of women and how small gestures: taking down tables or riding a...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Heather Pease
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome poet Heather Pease of California with two incisive works that interrogate expectations around gender and romantic relationships. Our culture carries a long lineage...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Nerissa Nields
Synkroniciti is glad to welcome back poet, writer and musician Nerissa Nields of Massachusetts, with “Pantoum,” a poem exploring her experience as part of a traveling family rock band. She imagined the...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Sandra Salinas Newton
Synkroniciti is honored to welcome back Sandra Salinas Newton, now residing in Paris, with two searing meditations on expectation and the uneasy passage of time. “Minnesota” begins with a memory of a...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist John Milkereit
Synkroniciti is pleased to welcome back poet John Milkereit of Houston with “Ode to Anticipation,” a celebration of adolescent appetite and the comfort foods that shaped his early life in Chicago. The...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Gabriela Manolova
Synkroniciti is honored to welcome back Bulgarian poet Gabriela Manolova, who won our Patterns poetry contest last year, with “Fish Bones.” The poem is a meditation on anxiety as a trauma response and...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Michael J. LaFrancis
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back poet Michael J. LaFrancis of Connecticut with a moving ekphrastic poem, “The Kiss,” based on the iconic sculpture of the same name by Auguste Rodin. Michael...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Carol Kanter
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome poet Carol Kanter of Chicago with Heritage, a meditation on the flavors and recipes that tether us to childhood and to the ancestors who fed us with more than food....
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Jeanne Julian
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome back poet Jeanne Julian of Maine, who appeared previously with us in our Haunting and Recovery issues. In Expectations she presents “For a Glimpse (Without Paying),”...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Lorraine Jeffery
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back poet Lorraine Jeffery of Utah, previously featured in our Curiosity and Family issues, with two poems about personal and communal expectations that shape our...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist Rachel Ikins
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back poet, writer, and visual artist Rachael Ikins, who has appeared with us many times since her first publication in our third issue, Empathy, in early 2020. For...
View ArticleExpectations Featured Artist D. Dina Friedman
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome back poet D. Dina Friedman of Massachusetts, who previously featured in our “Space” and “Belonging” issues, with three deeply introspective poems concerning...
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