Drawing Lessons

Maybe we're at an end, hearing a song fading out before a related but unexpected song begins. In retrospect, maybe a reckoning of some kind was inevitable all along. Eventually, when and if we must push forward without the resources we've relied on in the past, in that darkness, perhaps we'll all need imaginations trained on drawing lessons like the ones here.

Paul Jaskunas is the author of two works of fiction-The Atlas of Remedies (Stillhouse Press) and Hidden (Free Press), which won the Friends of American Writers Award-and of Mother Ship, a poetry chapbook (Finishing Line). His writing has appeared in Tab, The Pierian, America, the Comstock Review, and the New York Times, among other outlets. Since 2008, he has taught literature and writing at MICA, where he edits the journal Full Bleed.

Warren Linn, Maryland Institute College of Art Professor Emeritus, is a visual artist whose work has garnered numerous awards, as well as gallery and museum credits. He has exhibited nationally and internationally since the mid 1960s, and for fifty years his editorial illustrations appeared in major print-media outlets throughout North America.