Fjords : Arts and Literary Review, Volume 1 Issue 1

Fjords first issue includes art and literary contributions artists and writers at the top of their fields in poetry, short stories, and visual art. The first issue features abstracts by Suzun Hughs and impressionist master Clay Witt, who utilizes mother of pearl, canvas, lapis lazuli and Japanese paper alongside oils in his huge masterpieces. His work Leviathan is featured on our inaugural issues cover. Inside Fjords we have authors from 3 continents and 5 countries. Our premier issue debuts part of the Frida Kahlo Monologues by Poet Laureate of Virginia Carolyn Krieter-Foronoda and translations of 20th century Ukranian poet Pavlo Tychyna by Stephen Komarnyckyj of the United Kingdom. These works appear alongside new work from americana poet Cory Mesler, existentialist cum imagistic poems by J.J. Steinfeld from Canada and a short stories by Irish author Stephen Wade. Type in the Thames (A Destroyed Font Re-structured) is an article about Typographer Ed Edman's recreation of a century old font dumped into the Thames in 1903 by John Gosslee. Through a special arrangement with Edman, Fjords is the first publication to publish the new font in entirety. Turkish immigrant, Judy Light Ayyildiz's prose pieces and short story contrast Olympia Sibley's poems patterned after the sonnet. Work is also featured by new poet Juliana Kocsis.