Copyrighted © 2022 by Chuck Kimmerle. All rights reserved.*

distant showers 
will come too late 
to save this tree... 

in Manzanar, 
even rainbows 

bleach 

* Publisher’s Note:

Chuck Kimmerle’s Rainbow and Dead Tree is reproduced above with his permission. The image is from his Manzanar gallery of 113 photographs, which were shot at the Manzanar National Historic Site (Independence, California), “a former incarceration camp which imprisoned more than 10,000 innocent people of Japanese descent, mostly American citizens, during WWII” (source: www.chuckkimmerle.com; accessed 22 August 2022).

Chuck Kimmerle

is a U.S. based, fine art, landscape photographer who prefers to work in the reticent and quiet areas located in-between the popular, overcrowded, and over-photographed destinations of grand beauty.

While his style is rooted within the foundations of traditional landscape photography, his observations and interactions are both contemporary and introspective.

More details at: www.chuckkimmerle.com

You can also follow his work on Instagram and Facebook.

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ Photographing in Black and White: Seeing Beyond Color, an article by Chuck Kimmerle at PetaPixel (17 September 2021), courtesy of ELEMENTS Magazine.

⚡ Cemetery and Moon (Gebo, Wyoming), a photograph by Chuck Kimmerle which inspired Gary S. Rosin’s poem Cemetery and Moon in Issue 9 of MacQueen’s Quinterly

Gary S. Rosin’s

poetry and haiga have appeared, or are forthcoming, in various literary and poetry magazines such as Concho River Review, Eastern Structures, Failed Haiku, Harbinger Asylum, KYSO Flash, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Poetry24, The Legal Studies Forum, The Lift, The Wild Word, and Visions International; as well as in several anthologies, including contemporary haibun (Volume 17, Red Moon Press, 2022), Faery Footprints (Fae Corp Publishing), Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku & Haiga (Dos Gatos Press), Texas Poetry Calendar (Kallisto Gaia Press), Untameable City: Poems on the Nature of Houston (Mutabilis Press), and elsewhere.

His poem “Viewing the Dead” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Two of his poems appear in Silent Waters, photographs by George Digalakis (Athens, 2017). He is the author of two chapbooks, Standing Inside the Web (Bear House Publishing, 1990) and Fire and Shadows (Legal Studies Forum, 2008) (offprint).

Selections of Gary’s poetry and photography can be found at his website, 4P Creations: http://4pcreations.com

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ Cemetery and Moon by Gary S. Rosin (in Issue 9 of MacQueen’s Quinterly), a poem inspired by Chuck Kimmerle’s photograph Cemetery and Moon (Gebo, Wyoming)

⚡ Out of the Haze, collaborative haiga with photograph by George Digalakis and poem by Gary S. Rosin in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 8, June 2021); nominated for, and selected for publication in, Contemporary Haibun 17 (Red Moon Press, 2022)

⚡ Featured Poet: Gary S. Rosin in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 7, March 2021)

⚡ Crossing Kansas in The Wild Word (7 February 2020); includes audio of Rosin reading his poem

⚡ Two Readings: “Apparition” and “Black Dogs” by Gary S. Rosin for Texas Poetry Calendar 2015 at the Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, Texas (20 September 2014); see also Black Dogs here in MacQ (Issue 12, March 2022).