WEEKLY VERSES
Weekly Verses is our digital publication that features the works of different artists and writers each week .
Hunger
Tamizh Ponni VP, is an ambivert who loves to express her skills through literature, visual arts, and music. She has worked as an IB educator for 9 years in Bengaluru (India) and sees learning as a never-ending process. Her stories were featured in 2 anthology books, "Mia" and "Varna". Tamizh's articles, poems, and paintings have also been published in many digital journals and educational blogs. She spends most of her free time painting, reading, writing articles, stories, and poems, playing piano, and watching documentaries/movies.
The Swirl Of Time
Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Lithuanian/Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a graduate background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, Door Is A Jar, The Phoenix, and The Harvard Advocate. Edward is also a published poet who has had over 700 poems published and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times.
Brain Sweater
Andie Z Chen lives in Shenzhen and lives alone. She creates illustrations, writes poetry and fictions. She chose painting and writing as her way of creating because she is lazy, doesn't like physical labor, and isn’t good at teamwork. She holds an MFA in Experimental Arts and Documentary Studies from Duke University. It wasn’t until she was in graduate school, that she realized she is good at writing and painting—What she had previously pursued turned out to be an illusion. It sounds like she was a failure. Her flash fiction "My First Drawing" was published by Vine Leaves Press in "50 Give or Take". She filmed a video essay in the format of her personal diary for an episode of the commercial documentary series Thirty Three Stories. Looking back now, she thinks what a terrible script she wrote then.
Crown borrowed, crown denied & Nothing to declare
David Akinola is a Nigerian artist based in the United Kingdom. His practice explores identity, restriction, migration, and the psychological impact of personal and political memory. Working across drawing, collage, and painting, he examines the tension between individual agency and imposed systems of control. His work has been shown in exhibitions in both Nigeria and the UK, and includes a mural commissioned for Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Rooted in lived experience, his art invites reflection on freedom, displacement, and belonging, while confronting the systems that influence how people move through the world.
doubtless from the sea
Lauren Ward (b.1992, New Mexico) is a mother, artist and rising junior at Brown University. Her paintings, sculptures and films have been exhibited at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brown University, Harvard University and The Sojourner House, a domestic violence shelter in Providence, RI. Ward received second place at Brown’s 45th Annual Student Juried exhibition in March 2025, as well as the Marlene Malik Sculpture Award in January 2025. This summer she is an artist in residence at The Creative Reuse Center of Rhode Island, which will have a group exhibition this July 2025. Additionally, she is a Coordinator for Brown’s Sexual Assault Prevention Education Program. Ig: @laurenbward
Outside the Lines
Connor DiMartino is an artist and writer living in Philadelphia, PA, where he attends the Community College of Philadelphia, majoring in Art and Design, and Creative Writing. DiMartino’s poetry has been previously published in Limited Editions, and King’s River Review. He is also the first prize recipient of the 2025 Judith Stark Writing Competition in the poetry category.
Beached
Alex Schupak is a photographer, clothing designer, and multimedia artist based in Maryland. He is currently pursuing degrees in Visual Arts and Mathematical Physics at Brown University. His work spans commercial photography in fashion, sports, and events, though his focus remains on independent projects including art prints and photobooks. His first book, The New Americans, was completed in spring 2024. His work has appeared in publications such as The Optic and The Indy, and in exhibitions including Brown’s 44th Juried Student Exhibition. He is the founder of Amalin Clothing and has recently expanded into monotype printmaking. He will present his senior thesis work at the List Art Center in spring 2026.
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Bethany Altschwager is an artist, licensed creative arts therapist, and educator born in Connecticut, working in New York, and living in New Jersey. While art has always been an important part of her life, it was her early experiences with darkroom photography that inspired her career in the arts. She now uses the creative process to support adults experiencing mental health challenges to express themselves and develop a greater understanding of thoughts, feelings, and layers of identity. She maintains an active studio practice focused on digital art, photography, collage, and fibers. Her artwork has been displayed in exhibitions across the United States. She has been featured in Artistonish Contemporary Art Magazine, Visual Art Journal, and Artist Closeup Contemporary Art Magazine.
The Other Side
Amy Smith is an Analogue Collage artist from the Colne Valley district of West Yorkshire (UK)—a beautiful & unique area located in the foothills of the Pennine Moors. Her University education in the field of Media & Popular Culture, began her passion for exploring various art forms, social concepts and historical/ cultural influences. Amy has created an array of collages that include many versions & interpretations of media—however this is her first published piece. Her love of surrealist imagery coupled with the joy of finding beauty within ‘strangeness,’ has played a major influence in the overall aesthetic and ideas behind her work.
North Sea Colossus
Joseph Ray York is a North Carolina native with a degree in art from Appalachian State University. He was recently the first place art prize winner for the 2024 Spring Issue No. 73 of The Penn Review. He also has works in many private collections throughout the US and abroad.
Familiar Strangers
Ernest Langston, a Latinx writer and visual artist, was a finalist in the 2018 and 2021 Seattle Film Summit/Bigfoot Script Challenge and 2019 PEN Writer’s Award recipient. His short stories have appeared in Litro Magazine, Oyster River Pages, Acentos Review, and other publications. Ernest's artwork has been accepted at Gallerium Art Exhibitions'‘ 3rd annual People 2025 exhibition and Visual Art Journal (forthcoming publications). He has a BA in English, a M.F.A. in Creative Writing, resides in Seattle, and works on his next novel and a series of Abstract Expressionism paintings.
Lonecactus
Jo Rohrbacker is a career artist and works primarily in 2D media. Her subjects vary with whichever medium she is working in. Her watercolors are usually landscapes or animals, her current favorite subjects in acrylic are vintage neon signs, and her oils and murals are a wide range of subjects. Last year, there was a short documentary made about a mural she donated to a migrant center in Sasabe, Mexico—where she was so grateful for the opportunity to meet such beautiful people. Her work has been published with the print version of Artistonish magazine, the online version of the beautiful Wildscape Literary magazine as well as Le Culterae Magazine.