SPECS journal of art and culture.
Current Volume: Volume 7 (2016) Unicorn
- In the process of creating our seventh issue, SPECS has discovered some interesting things about Unicorns:
- *They are shape shifters
- *They are difficult to replicate; even harder to track down
- *Our unicorn is maybe your loch ness monster and your unicorn is maybe our hydra and maybe both our unicorns are actually built from Legos with candy corn teeth and googly eyes superglued onto them.
- Throughout the work you’ll find in these pages, we have attempted to embrace what a unicorn could encompass: in the art-body, attached to poetics (tangential or linear), and constructed from our joint social creation.
- Minal Hajratwala’s question: how to write like a unicorn?
- Whether it was image or text based, SPECS wanted to see how a unicorn is curated, concealed, exposed. What does it represent to our collective psyche? Cracking open the topography of unicorn-as-art, or unicorn-in-cultural-imagination, we’ve selected pieces that embrace myriad creative capacities.
- We are thrilled to share this work with you. We trust you’ll find the terrain as fascinating as you do satisfying.
- Love & Unicorns,
- Kristen N. Arnett
- Editor-in-Chief
Articles
Genderfluid Unicorn Blues
Brett BoykoOperation Unicorn: Notice from the Department of Taboos
Minal HajratwalaLessons of the One-Horned School
Minal HajratwalaYour First
Minal HajratwalaThe Ex-Girl Begins to Remember That Riff
Minal HajratwalaFeeling Truth Take Shape
Kavita DasRecipe for Unicorn Horns
Brigit Kelly YoungLimelight Memories
Tim Jones-YelvingtonHow It Goes
Jenna LeLeaf Ripped Out of an Expurgated Bestiary
Robert F. GrossCamden Stalls Market
Sarah Katharina KayßThe Proletariat of the North Pole
Gillian ChisomA Day in April
Anna CatesMad Lib: A Poem (Fill in the Blank)
Anna CatesExcavation
Anna CatesUnicorn Hunting
Sharif ShakhshirWalk to Caesarea Cento
Courtney DruzFoundation in Endurance
Courtney DruzCento of Perfection
Courtney DruzUnicorn Mating Ritual
Jack FieldsThe First and Last Unicorn
James RoviraUnicorn Knives
James RoviraUnicorn Silence
James RoviraThe Golden Rule
Lo Kwa Mei-enThe Yellow Brick Rule
Lo Kwa Mei-enUntitled (Unicorn & Cheetos Poem)
Shamala GallagherThe Patron Saint of Procrastinators
Noel SlobodaWild Bees in Gdansk
Noel SlobodaThe Night the Set Designer Quit
Noel SlobodaUnicorns, Narwhals, and Poets
Rajiv MohabirAB 469: A Po(r)ny-ography in Three Parts
Megan Milksbird of paradice
Leah SandlerImage Selection from "bird of paradice"
Leah SandlerThe Taxidermist's Cut (a review)
Kristen StoneThe Trouble with Humpadori (a surprise review)
Cathleen Bota
Editorial Board
- Editor-in-Chief
- Kristen N. Arnett
- Poetry & Graphics Editor
- Cathleen Bota
- Managing Web & Design Editor
- Sarah Castro
- Design & Editing Consultant
- Jennifer Valero
- Founding Editor & Intern Advisor
- Vidhu Aggarwal
- Advisory Board
- Julian Chambliss
- Minal Hajratwala