Jon-Michael Frank
& Katy Shayne
 [ARTIST STATEMENT]There's aplomb in recognition--which Katy and I found in the end of Emily's poem and inevitably, by the pool in our own works.

after Emily Stewart's 'Good Friday'

 

Jon-Michael Frank is the author of three chapbooks: Baby (forthcoming from Birds, LLC), Nostalgia Flower (forthcoming from Witch Craft Magazine), and Diana Ross & The Supremes (Black Cake Records). A book of poetic comics How's Everything Going? Not Good will be released in 2015 from Ohio Edit / Cuneiform Press. He is the acquisitions editor for the small press Birds, LLC, and lives on the Puget Sound.

Katy Shayne is a female artist based in Austin, Texas. She has two cats, a french press and a sense of the absurd. More at www.katyshayne.com.
 

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I'm Yours

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