Volume 21 Edition 2

-20 YEARS OF STIRRING-

Founded in 1999 by Erin Elizabeth Smith, Stirring is one of the oldest, continually published online literary journals. This year we celebrate the last twenty years of thriving growth and change for this little slice of the internet. Thank you to our readers for the continued support. We look forward to the next twenty years with you.


Nicholas Fair Potemkin Gown  2016,  6x8

Nicholas Fair
Potemkin Gown
2016,
6x8

above work by Mario Loprete:

Numa Crew
oil on concrete

b boys
oil on concrete

 
Mario Loprete La sottana cement on 100% cotton  2017

Mario Loprete
La sottana
cement on 100% cotton
2017

Mario Loprete La T-Shirt Timberand del Noi Che cement on found cotton fiber T-shirt 2016

Mario Loprete
La T-Shirt Timberand del Noi Che
cement on found cotton fiber T-shirt
2016

 
 
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Featured Artists

EMMA VIESER - NICHOLAS FAIR - FABRICE POUSSIN - MARIO LOPRETE

Featured on cover page: Nicholas Fair, Black Moon on Yarrow, 2017, mixed media collage,5x9
Mario Loprete, Anya oil on concrete 30 cm x 40 cm, 2017
Emma Vieser, No Diving. Black and White film print. 2018. 8.5"x11"
Fabrice Poussin, To the Valley, 3553 x 2000; digital photography, 2018, Utah

 

 
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Guest Editor

Hali F. Sofala-Jones is a Samoan American teacher and writer. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Her poetry has been published both in the United States and abroad, appearing in Nimrod International Journal, The Bitter Oleander, CALYX, Blue Mesa Review, The Missouri Review, The Samoan Observer, and elsewhere. Afakasi | Half-Caste (2019, Sundress Publications) is her debut collection. She lives in Milledgeville, Georgia.