Palaver Arts Magazine, Spring 2017 Cover. Orange circles on beige background with text "WAYS TO BREAK A HEART" on middle right.

 

Cover artwork by Cheryl Chan

Art

two photographs

Catherine Atkinson

Ocean waves crashing on rocks.

mixed media pieces

Cheryl Chan

Collage of a girl against a dark blue background with koi fish(?) over her eyes, mouth, and head.

two photographs

Yannis Faidherbe

A flooded street with a car parked. A palm tree is seen in the water's reflection.

two photographs

Massimo Napoli

Neon sign that reads

Streams of Consciousness

Sophia Spirus

Collage on a piece of printer paper, using various images and excerpts of articles from The New Yorker magazine.

light—time

Abbie Stellar

Photo of light on black square. Square is placed against a white background.

nocturne

Abbie Stellar

Silver wire sculpture photographed with overhead ceiling lights.

Media

Anthropocene

Adam Barnett

A hill overlooking glaciers in the water below.

Cigarettes & Fatherhood

Mackin Carroll

Mackin Carroll plays guitar in a recording studio.

Ana Bellarosa

Chloé Duvant

Silhouette of a young woman at daybreak by the ocean

Want You Bad

Jack Ingram

Album cover image of trees and sky against a light blue background.

Sometimes I Wish My Life Was a Movie

Zach McLane

Text reads

Prose

Butterknife

Amanda Gonzalez

Encounters

Claire Charrier

Please Stay

Ashley Busenlener

The Leaking Room

Jan Bross

Anita’s Room

Michael Savio

Mi Mama

Sarah Yanni

Poetry

The Irishman’s Dog Keeps Running Astray

Allison Smith

Among the Infinite Dawns

Taylor Rivers

[if there ever comes a time]

R.D.M.

[dark chocolate is a dominatrix]

R.D.M.

Wai Gong’s Funeral

Lillian Tsao

Gillette Venus

Celeste McAlpin-Levitt

How She Goes

Megana Iyer

Yellow Walls

Amanda Suarez

Careful

Amanda Suarez

#itsfineimfine

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