Teagan White

Art

Teagan White is a freelance designer and illustrator from Chicago, currently a student at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Intricate lines, naturalistic rendering, and subdued color are integral to her visual identity, while a fascination with natural history, antiquities, and mortality drives the content of her work. Throughout her personal and professional projects, she attempts to blur the boundaries between design, illustration, and fine art, aiming for a depth of meaning and quality of execution that can arise independently from the work's application. Her clients have included Target, Nike, The NFL, Coca-Cola, Anthropologie, WIRED Magazine, and a wide range of small businesses, fashion companies, and independent record labels. She is also a member of the Keystone Design Union.

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LISA IGLESIAS

Featured Artist for February, 2012

Lisa Iglesias was born and raised in Queens, New York, received her BA from Binghamton University in 2001 and attended the University of Florida for an MFA in 2006.  She has attended residencies such as the Santa Fe Art Institute (New Mexico), the Blue Mountain Center (New York), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), 6_a Inc (Tasmania) and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Nebraska), among others.  In 2009, she was awarded a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and has exhibited nationally and internationally at various spaces including El Museo del Barrio, Y Gallery, the Queens Museum of Art and the Jersey City Museum.  A recipient of a 2009 NYFA Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts and the 2009/2010 Urban Artists Initiative/New York City, she works both individually as well as collaboratively with her sister, Janelle under the name Las Hermanas Iglesias. For more information about Lisa’s individual and collaborative work, visit www.LasHermanasIglesias.com

Matt Jones

Fiction

Matt has a degree in English and lives in Austin, Texas with his dog, Bagheera. He enjoys his studio apartment, craft beer, and the dog park.

Five Pressing Questions from Paper Darts:

1) What animal do you most resemble (physically and/or behaviorally) and why?
Behaviorally, I resemble a wolf. Physically, I am not sure, perhaps a wolf.

2) Describe the current state of your hair in three words:
Understated yet refined.

4) If you could have one inanimate object grafted to the top of your head, what would it be?
No answer provided.

3) Disney movie scene that still gets you all weepy and pathetic?
When the fox meets the hound.

5) Crappiest childhood toy that was supposed to be awesome:
Turboman.

Tim Kahl

Poetry

Tim Kahl is the author of Possessing Yourself (Word Tech, 2009) and The Century of Travel (Word Tech, forthcoming). His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, The Journal, Parthenon West Review, and many other journals in the U.S. He appears as Victor Schnickelfritz at the poetry and poetics blog The Great American Pinup, and the poetry video blog Linebreak Studios. He is also editor of Bald Trickster Press and Clade Song. He is the vice president and events coordinator of The Sacramento Poetry Center. He currently houses his father's literary estate—one volume: Robert Gerstmann's book of photos of Chile, 1932.

Five Pressing Questions from Paper Darts:

1) What animal do you most resemble (physically and/or behaviorally) and why?
I am most like a tapir, mostly because of the prehensile snout and for my ability to exhibit the flehmen response.

2) Describe the current state of your hair in three words:
Reluctant to conform

4) If you could have one inanimate object grafted to the top of your head, what would it be?
A small bamboo pole with a Kit Kat on the hook at the end so that, like an Anglerfish, I could lure small children to their most certain death at the whim of my powerful jaws.

3) Disney movie scene that still gets you all weepy and pathetic?
Charlie the Lonesome Cougar — when Jess Bradley puts a rope around Charlie’s neck in the lumber mill elevator with all the other lumberjacks looking on and the foreman’s gun trained on “Good-time Charlie”.

5) Crappiest childhood toy that was supposed to be awesome:
Ernie (from Sesame Street) puppet whose hard rubber head was too difficult to move in order to make him talk and which smelled like a tire factory had caught on fire.

Crimes

Music

Crimes came into being in the autumn of 2010 as the brainchild of Minneapolis musician Andrew Jansen who recruited local musicians Luke Friedrich, Hannah Fraiser, and Reese Hagy to round out the lineup. They recorded their debut full-length album Good Hope in Jansen's home studio after only a few short months together, and subsequently self-released the album in October 2011.  Good Hope exhibits a healthy concoction of reverb-drenched soundscapes, cathartic guitar freak-outs, and complementary boy/girl vocals that carefully tip-toe the delicate line between bratty and playful.

Five Pressing Questions from Paper Darts

1) What animal do you most resemble (physically and/or behaviorally) and why?

Andrew Jansen - Guitar/Vocals: People say I resemble a bear the most because I have a beard and I'm relatively pushy/assertive/controlling. I'm working on that. I also feel quite a bit like one in Minnesota, being that I constantly want to sleep the winter away.
Hannah Fraiser - Bass/Vocals: I've heard that I'm kind of like a deer. I guess because they've got big eyes and a slender build. However, I'm not very graceful and I've also been told I'm like an ostrich, which I very much HATE.
Luke Friedrich - Drums: I'm a very concerned bear. I am calculative yet instinctual. I can be perceived as intense or intimidating but am actually very warm and caring. I also really like to catch trout with my mouth, so it works.
Reese Hagy - Guitar/Keys: Physically, a red panda. Behaviorally, a koala. I'm a fuzzy, temperamental ginger.

2) Describe the current state of your hair in three words:

AJ: My hair currently needs to be cut, but if I wait any longer then it will stay long for a year and half until I lose my job again.
HF: Growing Out (so I can) Head-bang.
LF: 18th century gentleman.
RH: In a recession.

3) If you could have one inanimate object grafted to the top of your head, what would it be?

AJ: It would probably be a delay pedal, a synthesizer, or a flashlight.
HF: A compass.
LF: A very collapsible cot.
RH: Antlers.

4) Disney movie scene that still gets you all weepy and pathetic?

AJ: I haven't seen a Disney movie in nearly 10 years. I don't watch too many movies. I don't believe I can answer properly.
HF: ...hmm...I have to go with Andrew on this...can't remember the last time I watched a Disney movie nor can I ever remember the distinct parts or story lines in most of them...
LF: The scene in Aladdin when the giant sand panther thing wakes up. That shit is intense.
RH: Der Fuhrer's Face. Regardless of one's personal feelings about Donald Duck, I think we can all agree that he doesn't deserve to be dressed up and paraded around like a Nazi.

5) Crappiest childhood toy that was supposed to be awesome:

AJ: Man, what really let me down? I'd probably have to say action figures. All of them. I never really did anything exciting with them. They just sat there and I didn't have that many, but I think their bright colors just reeled me in.
HF: Barbies. They all looked the same and I always just ended up cutting all of their hair off and regretting it later.
LF: I was a huge TMNT enthusiast. I didn't have many of the fancy things. They came out with canister of 'ooze' right after Secret of the Ooze came out. Upon opening, it instantly became a gross dirt ball. Big waste of time/excitement. Let down.
RH: I'm pretty sure I really only played with legos and GI Joe's and therefore never experienced disappointment as a child.

Soey Milk

Featured Artist for January, 2012.

Soey Milk depicts lone women in romance, she gifts the ladies with symbols of pleasure and agony. Often enriched with subtle oddity or darkness, her delicate works tell stories of tender and sensitive shared encounters. 

She is in love with lily specialists.

Gretchen Marquette

Poetry

Gretchen Marquette served as the 2011 assistant poetry editor for Water~Stone Review. Her poetry has appeared in Sleet Magazine, Poetry City USA, and is forthcoming from Mas Tequila Review. Her work has been selected for the What Light poetry project and Redbird Press’s Chapbook series. She lives in Minneapolis.

Five Pressing Questions from Paper Darts

1) What animal do you most resemble (physically and/or behaviorally) and why?
A cat, because sometimes I think I was born to do nothing but sit and look out the window.

2) Describe the current state of your hair in three words:
Needs a trim.

3) If you could have one inanimate object grafted to the top of your head, what would it be?
A booklight. There’s nothing worse than being bored in the dark with a book on your lap.

4) Disney movie scene that still gets you all weepy and pathetic?
I remember being inconsolable watching The Fox and the Hound; the part where they figure out they can’t be friends. I had an abridged version on a record with a little picture book and I couldn’t even handle that. I hid it behind my bookshelf. I’m sure it would still suck to watch.

5) Crappiest childhood toy that was supposed to be awesome:
I was really excited for my ant farm to come in the mail. The ants came in a plastic tube, and I crushed some of them by accident trying to get them situated, and I don’t remember the rest of them living very long. They certainly didn’t do much farming. Really, it was the biggest reason I gave up my dream of becoming a myrmecologist.

Ray Succre

Poetry

Ray lives on the southern Oregon coast with his wife and son. He has had poems published in numerous places across dozens of countries. His novels are widely available in print, and Other Cruel Things (2009), an online collection of poetry, is available through Differentia Press.

Five Pressing Questions from Paper Darts

1) What animal do you most resemble (physically and/or behaviorally) and why?
A higher-order primate, due to certain alleles.

2) Describe the current state of your hair in three words:
Less than before.

3) If you could have one inanimate object grafted to the top of your head, what would it be?
A paper currency mint.

4) Disney movie scene that still gets you all weepy and pathetic?
Disney has never done that to me.

5) Crappiest childhood toy that was supposed to be awesome:

William Blome

Fiction

William C. Blome is a writer of short fiction and poetry. He lives 'twixt Baltimore and DC, and is an MA graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. His work has appeared in such publications as Amarillo Bay, Prism International, Salted Feathers, and The California Quarterly.

Five Pressing Questions from Paper Darts

1) What animal do you most resemble (physically and/or behaviorally) and why?
I want to reincarnate as an overflowingly-potent mule.

2) Describe the current state of your hair in three words:
Vacating the noggin.

3) If you could have one inanimate object grafted to the top of your head, what would it be?
Small, silver-on-onyx directional placard that reads YOU ARE HERE.

4) Disney movie scene that still gets you all weepy and pathetic?
No answer.

5) Crappiest childhood toy that was supposed to be awesome:
An albino turtle.

Sophia Narrett

Art

Sophia Narrett was born in 1987 in Concord, MA and grew up in Ellicott City, MD.  In 2010 she received her BA with Honors in Visual Arts from Brown University.  Last March she was an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, and in June she was a Public Art Academy Resident at the Pajama Factory in Williamsport, PA.  Her work has already been included in several shows, including Play at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY, Residue: The 22nd Drawing Show at the Boston Center for the Arts, and Pursuant Pharaohs at Collar Works Gallery in Troy, NY.  In 2012, her work will be included in End of Days at Mixed Greens in New York City and Love at Manhattanville College's Arthur M. Berger Art Gallery in Purchase, NY.  Narrett lives and works in Providence, RI.