Friday, April 17, 2026: Three Works of Art by Lorraine Caputo

 

                                                         "Calingasta"

                                                      "Noche de otoño"

                                               "Star in the Palm"

© Lorraine Caputo

Wandering troubadour Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear internationally in over 500 journals and 24 collections of poetry – including Orinoco Plains (dancing girl press, 2025) and Santa Marta Ayres (Origami Poems Project, 2024). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. She is a Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada honoree (2011), and Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America with her faithful knapsack Rocinante, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.

Friday, January 16, 2026: Four paintings by Farida Samer Khan

Artist’s Note: This polyptych “Facets of the Feminine”; by Farida SamerKhan is an exploration of the multifaceted nature of femininity. Through the juxtaposition of seemingly disparate elements – a woman’s face, a panther, a jug, and a rose – I aim to reveal the complex, often contradictory aspects of the female experience.

The woman’s face represents the external self, while the panther embodies the untamed, instinctual forces that lie beneath the surface. The vase symbolizes containment and nurturing, whereas the rose represents beauty, vulnerability, and the cyclical nature of life.

Together, these panels form a nuanced portrait of womanhood, one that acknowledges the tensions between restraint and liberation, civility and wildness, and beauty and decay. By presenting these contradictions in a single, cohesive work, I invite the viewer to contemplate the rich, multifaceted nature of femininity.

Face

Panthere

Rose

Vase

Farida Samer Khan is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. The artist’s works are recognized by the strong representation of her artistic principles: colour theory and composition, and also by her ethnic and feminine identity. Her paintings were displayed in Arto Galleria, Gallea Art Gellery, Arts Etobicoke, Propeller Art Gallery and at many ethnic festivals and art exhibitions. Her artworks are in private collections in Toronto, Maple, Newmarket, Ottawa - Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; New York, NY, and Washington DC.

Call for Submissions

 Al-Khemia Poetica is currently looking for your best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, art, and photography. There's no submission fee, and no payment, but we do nomination for Pushcart, and Best of the Net. Submissions are open to all who identify as female. 

Guidelines:

1) Poetry, prose, creative nonfiction: Two pieces, one may be previously published (with date and journal name included). For poetry, 100 lines max, for prose, 3K words max. 

2) Art and photography. Up to 5 images, 300 DPI, jpeg.

3) Bio: 100 words max, 3rd person preferred.

4) Author photo may be submitted, but is not required for publication.

5) Email submissions, or queries to marie.lecrivain.pd@gmail.com

Friday, April 14, 2023: Beverly M. Collin's poem "Effects on Nature"

 Effects on Nature

I walked alone beside a frozen pond

and searched to relish the first signs

of melt. But found an increase of

stubborn icicles; like glistening teeth,

their ragged smile.

With the magnet of my mind reckless

and pointed in a down position,

the air became amused at my quest.

A heckle of winds circled through

taunting trees in sudden laughter.

“Human-longing” has elongated

the winter cold…again.

How I wished to trade away

the chill for hot coffee, a strong

hand to hold, and the ghost of spring

with its colorful buds and sneaky thorns.

© 2023 Beverly M. Collins

Beverly M. Collins, author of the books, Quiet Observations: Diary thought, Whimsy and Rhyme, and Mud in Magic. Her poems and short stories have appeared in publications based in the USA, England, Ireland, Australia, India, Berlin, Mauritius, and Canada both in print and online. Winner of a 2019 Naji Naaman Literary prize in Creativity (Lebanon). Collins, twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and a prize winner for the California State Poetry Society, was born in Delaware, New Jersey raised and presently resides in Southern California. (USA).

Her photography found on: Fine Art America products, Shutterstock, iStock/Getty images,

Adobe Stock and more. 

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Friday, November 11, 2022: Three Artworks by Ann Privateer

 

Bio: Ann Privateer is a poet, artist, and photographer. Some of her recent work has appeared in Third Wednesday, and Entering, to name a few.

Friday, October 28, 2022: Three Works of Art by Annette Marie Smith

                                             "Leaves of a Feather"

                                           

                                                "The Woodcutter's Small Leaf Shadows"

"It's Nothing Personal"

© 2022 Annette Marie Smith

Annette Marie Smith is an American author and poet, writing beauty in a sometime wilderness. Her books of poetry and short stories have been featured in the reading room of Shakespeare and Company bookstore, Paris, France. She's been nominated for the Pushcart prize and her work has ridden the trains and buses of Minnesota as broadsides through a Mcknight Foundation grant. Published internationally, her work has been translated into Italian, Spanish, German, Cherokee script, and included in The Irish Poetry Reading Archive at UCD Library. She is currently working on her first literary novel. Find out more at annettemariesmith.com

Friday, July 1, 2022: Three Paintings by Cynthia Yatchman

 

                                                   

                                                           Outback © 2022 Cynthia Yatchman

                                                 

                                   Bamboo With Cherry Blossoms © 2022 Cynthia Yatchman

                                                

                                                         Hummingbird © 2022 Cynthia Yatchman

Cynthia Yatchman is a Seattle based artist and art instructor. A former ceramicist, she received her B.F.A. in painting (UW). She switched from 3D to 2D and has remained there ever since. She works primarily on paintings, prints and collages. Her art is housed in numerous public and private collections. She has exhibited on both coasts, extensively in the Northwest, including shows at Seattle University, SPU, Shoreline Community College, the Tacoma and Seattle Convention Centers and the PaciNic Science Center.

Tuesday, May 10, 2022: Heather G. Schubert's illustrations: "Alisyn", "Live Deliciously" and "Pen and Ink"

                                                         © 2022 Heather G. Schubert

© 2022 Heather G. Schubert

© 2022 Heather G. Schubert

Bio:  Heather G. Schubert wears many hats; among them are mother, priestess, teacher, artist, author, small business owner, girl scout troop leader, and more. She finds the fulfillment is each of these roles, but looks forward to the creative expression visual art allows her. Her favorite is mixed media artwork.

Friday, 04/01/22: Amy Uyematsu's poem "Guanyin, Goddess of Mercy"

© 2022 marie c lecrivain

 Guanyin, Goddess of Mercy

I get more superstitious with age.

Heed the warnings of mystics and crones.

Believe less in random misfortune.

There's a mother who can stuff the devil in a bottle.

Heed the warnings of mystics and crones.

Guanyin listens to the cries of the world.

There's a mother who can stuff the devil in a bottle.

How much can she do to protect her child.

Guanyin listens to the cries of the world.

She must grow a thousand arms.

How much can she do to protect her child.

Sometimes the noise is unbearable.

She must grow a thousand arms.

To reclaim one more heart to kindness.

Sometimes the noise is unbearable.

Whose hand reaches out in the dark.

© 2022 Amy Uyematsu

Amy Uyematsu is a sansei (third-generation Japanese American) poet and teacher

from Los Angeles. She has six published collections - the most recent being That 

Blue Trickster Time (2022). Her first poetry collection, 30 Miles from J-Town,

won the 1992 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Active in Asian American Studies

when it first emerged in the late 60s, she was co-editor of the widely used UCLA

anthology, Roots: An Asian American Reader.