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| Issue #3 Spring 2009 | | Current Issue | Past Issues | Events | Subscriptions | Submissions | Contact |
INTRODUCTION
 Wild
Apples: a journal of nature, art, and inquiry is a new twice-yearly
arts and literary publication. Taking its name and inspiration from Henry
David Thoreau's essay, "Wild Apples," the journal brings together
the work of artists and writers who are connected by the common threads
of care for the environment, engagement in social concerns, and commitment
to the arts and the way they shape our world. "Artists are not like the ordered rows of trees in a commercial orchard," writes founding editor, Linda Hoffman, in her introduction to the first issue. "They have more in common with the wild apples growing on the borders of woodlands." Our journal seeks to find these gems in the landscape, let the different arts and visions intermingle, and produce new varieties and voices to sustain us. Let Wild Apples be a haven from cell phones and computers; a piece of reading that takes you into the woods and wilds. As the journal's guiding spirit writes: What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then! 
ISSUE THREE The third issue of Wild Apples gathers artists and writers who appreciate their connection to the natural world through an intimacy with soil, the earth, and the botanical world. Kathryn Liebowitz sends us, like Aladdin, to discover the treasures hidden in fairytales and myths. Ceramicist Alex Matisse describes his two-year apprenticeship making pots using traditional North Carolina techniques and digging clay on Early's Mountain. Photographer J. Henry Fair's devastatingly beautiful images show us the destruction of the earth caused by coal mining; and Margot Stage writes of the artist Frederick Franck's passion for creating Pacem in Terris, a sanctuary for his art and for those who share a reverence for the natural world. Wild Apples again brings the work of new and established writers and artists to its pages: among our contributors we welcome artists Kathleen Cammarata, Vicco Fabris, Jonathan Sharlin and Deborah Barlow; poets Laura Rogerson Moore and Joan Houlihan; and writers Robert McGowan and Susan Edwards Richmond. In the introduction to this spring issue which explores the nature of soil and the riches of the earth, founding editor Linda Hoffman writes "The smell of newly turned soil lifts from the chunks that the plow brings topsy-turvy steaming into the cool spring air." Although nothing quite replaces the experience of holding a copy of Wild Apples in your hands, please enjoy a sampler of essays, poetry, and artwork on our website. |